The Walker’s just-announced 2012-13 Performing Arts Season is “like the Neiman Marcus Christmas Book,” writes Pamela Espeland. “You turn the pages, you see a lot of things you want and a few eyebrow-raisers.”

Remembering disco diva and multi-Grammy-winning singer Donna Summer, who died this week, Beware the Blog posts “The Old Victrola,” in which avant-garde musician Alan Licht adds drone guitar loops over Summer’s 1979 hit “Dim All the Lights.”

With the embargo and restrictions on travel and citizen access to the internet, Cuba remains one of the hemisphere’s most isolated nations. “It’s no wonder,” writes David Peisner, “that the country is responsible for some of the angriest, most extreme metal on Earth.”

In addition to his work with the Sea and Cake and musical side projects (which brought him to the Walker in 2005 and 2011), Archer Prewitt has other gigs—including one designing a new bobblehead in honor of dub/reggae great Lee “Scratch” Perry.

Despite the cuteness of the scene—a DJ cat mixing the Beastie Boys!—today’s Cat Break comes with sincere sadness: Rest in peace, Adam Yauch (aka MCA), director, activist, and Beasties cofounder, who passed away at age 47 after a three-year battle with cancer.

For its annual Icon Issue, The Fader focuses on Philip Glass by getting reflections on the 75-year-old composer—and his collaborations with filmmakers, dancers, and visual artists—from the likes of Chuck Close, Lucinda Childs, Nico Muhly, and Errol Morris.

Almost as unique as Prince’s music is the Minneapolis native’s couture: frilly tops, paisley jackets, ruffled collars. Each of these details is exactingly recreated in miniature by Troy Gua, whose Thunderbirds-esque dolls even include cashmere-fluff chest hair.

In a tribute to Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, artist Cory Arcangel recreated the 1909 piece Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11—widely considered the first “atonal” piece of music composed—using only clips from YouTube cat videos.