World-fusion artist and master of the Latin guitar, Johannes Linstead, has just released his eighth album, Tales Of A Gypsy, and the recording is destined to take its place at the top of the world music/new age music charts.

For the Nihilist Spasm Band, their art is play and their play is noise. For 45 years (?!) this band from London, Ontario has been producing a rumbling retching sound unlike any before it. Their work is prized by collectors and fans the world over, yet they remain obscure in their own country. Until now, that is…

‘Los Angeles Blues’, the new recording of solo guitar music by the virtuoso Ciro Hurtado, is exceptionally beautiful not only for its range of composition, but also for the superlative quality of the recording process.

The pop-opera group Il Divo performed at Rogers Arena in Vancouver last night in a lavishly lit setting with a full orchestra,and left the predominantly female crowd panting for more

Vivoscene interviews David Miller, the American tenor for Il Divo, shortly after the group met with Elizabeth II, Queen of England, as part of her Diamond Jubilee festivities.

If you listen to no other new music (and we mean new) in the next 12 months, you owe it to yourself to listen to Polish composer Jacaszek’s ‘Glimmer’. If, that is, you have a dark and curious turn of mind.