Great news from Blogville this morning: Make a point of bookmarking Mind the Gap, a new blog that debuted yesterday at Arts Journal. The author is Molly Sheridan (left), who you already know from NewMusicBox (where she provides, among other things, the weekly dose of wit that is The Friday Informer), Counterstream Radio and points beyond.

Molly’s arrival is excellent news: I know of few other writers who approach the disappearing boundaries between musical styles with such perception and sympathy. (From Sounds Like Now, via Blognoggle.)

Elsewhere in Blogistan: The Determined Dilettante struggles with Philip Glass, but still finds good things to say about Satyagraha and what it represents for the Met. Feast of Music preaches the gospel of Carla Bozulich’s amazing band, Evangelista, which he saw and I unfortunately didn’t. (Pete kindly links to my review of the band’s excellent new CD, Hello, Voyager.) And Darcy’s got a great recap of another date I missed: the eighth blackbird show at Zankel last Thursday.

Nightstand: B.H. Haggin, Music Observed (Oxford University Press, 1964)

Playlist:

Alacranes Musical – Nuestra Historia y Algo Mas (Univision)

Banda Lamento Show de Durango – Ponzoña Musical (Platino)

Grupo Montez de Durango – Y Sigue la Mata Dando (Disa)

Los Horóscopos de Durango – Antes Muertas que Sencillas; Desatados (Disa); and Ayer, Hoy y Siempre (Univision)

Diana Reyes – La Reina del Pasito Duranguense (Universal)

Taylor Swift – Taylor Swift (Big Machine)

Napalm Death – Fear, Emptiness, Despair (Earache)

Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonatas, Op. 26–28 – András Schiff (ECM)