Music

Basic Channel (Basic Channel, 2008)

Conlon Nancarrow (Other Minds, 2008)

Paul Schütze (free download)

Nico Muhly, Bedroom Community, 2008

Curated by Vicki Bennett, Sonic Arts Network, 2008

DJ Zeus, Consume Music, 2002/2008

The hunt for rare African funk records raises questions about how the digitized music of the 21st century will be archived

Elvis Presley died on Madonna’s 19th birthday, the two stars can be seen as complex and contradictory emblems

Volume I: 50 Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum (Dust-to-Digital, 2007)

Various artists (Out There, 2008)

Fanal (Sonig, 2008)

Wolfgang Voigt draws on Romantic landscape and classical music as much as technological minimalism

Toumani Diabaté (World Circuit, 2008)

Vampire Weekend (XL Recordings, 2008)

Part 2: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Nigerian Blues: 1970–6 (Soundway, 2008)

In conversation with Steve Reich

The state of classical music criticism today

The state of popular music criticism today

Tom Wolfe’s 1970 essay ‘Radical Chic’ explores the decadent relationship between wealth, glamour and extremist politics – and is as relevant today as it was 34 years ago

Arthur Russell