The cover to Kate Miller-Heidke’s Curiouser comes with a parcel of mixed messages: Just who is the Australian girl Kate Miller-Heidke and where does she want to land in the pop-music landscape? Full Article at PopMatters

Turntables are becoming as much a part of a touring rock band these days as a guitar or the lead singer’s skinny blue jeans. But it’s still a novelty when someone actually knows how to use them. Kid Koala is no rookie. Full Article at andPOP

N ico's Choice Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony At Koerner Hall in Toronto on Thursday Nico Muhly has written music for films and dancers, and for pop stars such as Bjork, Grizzly Bear and Antony Hegarty (of Antony and the Johnsons). Full Article at Globe and Mail

First of all, I love indie. I love it like a 15-year-old boy loves Megan Fox, sans anything involving posters on ceilings. So before you get up in my face with loud, defensive, aggravated comments about how great it is — I know, I know. Mellow. Full Article at OH NO THEY DIDN'T

trumpeter, and Byron, the heralded New York clarinetist and sax man, get their turns to fill the gorgeous but acoustically daunting Grace Cathedral with music, as part of the San Francisco Jazz Festival's long-running Sacred Space series. 1. Full Article at Contra Costa Times

Well, our blog about the best lyricists around today certainly generated a bit of a kerfuffle. Yet, in all the comments, there was a noticeable lack of female wordsmiths. Full Article at OH NO THEY DIDN'T