DAVÓNE TINES & THE TRUTH’s new work ROBESON, which premiered this summer at NYC’s Little Island, is out now. In ROBESON, Tines’ solo recording debut, the musician grapples with the legacy of a hero. Exploding the musical repertoire of Paul Robeson, Tines and his band the Truth—pianist John Bitoy and sound artist Khari Lucas—take listeners on a trip from the stage of Carnegie Hall to the floor of a Moscow hotel room in an attempt to understand an icon not through aspiring to his monumentality, but through connecting to his vulnerability. Davóne Tines & The Truth will perform from ROBESON in LA, Chicago, Brussels, and London in the weeks and months ahead.

"Airplanes, and flying, is a recurring imagery in Laurie Anderson's music ever since her unexpected crossover hit 'O Superman' back in 1981," John Schaefer, host of WNYC's New Sounds, says of his guest. "She often takes a quizzical look at technology and flight has been no exception." Anderson was on the show to talk with Schaefer about her new album, Amelia, which tells the story of Amelia Earhart's last flight. She also joined Schaefer and others at WNYC's centennial celebration in Central Park's SummerStage, where she performed live with the band Sexmob. You can hear both here.

"My participation in country music was short lived, but it was the launchpad for my career," k.d. lang tells Talia Schlanger, guest host of CBC's Q, ahead of her reuniting with her band The Reclines for the first time in 35 years to perform on the Canadian Country Music Awards and her being inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame this weekend. "It's nice to be recognized, that I had an impact for that small amount of time ... I'm lit up about it, what can I say? It was a really fun period of my life." You can hear their conversation here.

Following this year's Big Ears Festival, in which more than 15 Nonesuch artists past, present, and future performed as part of the label's 60th anniversary celebrations, Big Ears has just announced the lineup for its 2025 running to take place in venues throughout downtown Knoxville, TN, March 27–30, 2025, including Ambrose Akinmusire, Jeff Parker, and Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti and Frank Rosaly.

"Sarah Kirkland Snider is, quite simply, one of my favorite living composers," Stephen Rodgers, host of Resounding Verse, says on the latest episode of the podcast about poetry and song. "I love her vocal works. She has a great sense for the human voice, she sets text beautifully." "Alleluia," the third movement of Mass for the Endangered, composed by Snider with a libretto by poet/writer Nathaniel Bellows, is the subject of the episode. You can hear the episode here.

Chris Thile and Hurray for the Riff Raff each performed on the Aspen Ideas Festival campus for NPR's Field Recordings series of shows filmed "off the beaten path." Thile was in Anderson Park to perform Bach with students from the Aspen Music School and two solo pieces from his album Laysongs. Hurray for the Riff Raff was joined by guitarist Johnny Wilson in a meadow beneath the Elk Mountains to perform five songs from the new album The Past Is Still Alive—"one of our favorites of the year," says NPR's Suraya Mohamed. You can watch both here.

Composer and guitarist Yasmin Williams has released “Hummingbird,” a track from her new album, Acadia, due October 4. “Hummingbird” features Allison de Groot on banjo and Tatiana Hargreaves on fiddle, a duo whose instrumentals “mesmerize in the most splendid manner,” per No Depression; you can watch a music video for the song here. Williams brings her new music to the Kennedy Center in DC and the Evanston Folk Festival in Illinois this weekend; she embarks on a fall North American tour with Brittany Howard and Michael Kiwanuka later this month and plays London’s Pitchfork Music Festival in November.

Jeremy Denk was on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to talk with presenter Kirsty Wark about Charles Ives, ahead of Denk's celebration of the composer's 150th birthday in concert at the Lammermuir Festival in Scotland this weekend and on his upcoming album Ives Denk, due October 18 on Nonesuch. You can hear their conversation here at 17:30 minutes in.

Donnacha Dennehy’s Land of Winter is due November 15 on Nonesuch. The piece, performed by the composer's longtime collaborators Alarm Will Sound and conductor Alan Pierson, explores the subtleties of Ireland’s seasons via twelve connected sections representing the months of the year. "It is the varying quality of light that truly demarcates the seasons," Dennehy says, "from the shorter days of grey or piercing light in the winter to the warmer but mercurial light of summer days that at solstice stretch almost to midnight. I like this play between light and time, and it is the major inspiration behind the piece." You can watch a video for “November" here.

Laurie Anderson will present a four-episode BBC Radio 6 Music Artist in Residence series December 16–19, 11pm–12am GMT. The themes of Anderson's four playlists: the real world; love and energy; loneliness and change; and the dream world. “It’s been a blast being your DJ and I hope you like the things I put together for 6 Music," she says. "I always wanted to have a late night radio show for people who are somewhere between awake and asleep. But even if you’re out and about—I hope you have a good time listening to some of my favorite music." Anderson is on BBC World Service's In the Studio, offering a front row seat as she put the finishing touches on her new album, Amelia, at Miraval Studios in southern France, with engineer Damien Quintard.

Hurray for the Riff Raff, aka Alynda Segarra, was joined by guitarist Johnny Wilson to perform a Track Star Presents set of songs from Segarra's new album, The Past Is Still Alive—"Alibi," "Buffalo," Colossus of Roads," and "Snake Plant (The Past Is Still Alive)"—as well as a cover of the Marcy Playground hit "Sex & Candy." Segarra also talks with host Jack Coyne about the new album, traveling the country, and first learning to play music. You can watch it here.

Laurie Anderson’s new album Amelia, about renowned female aviator Amelia Earhart’s tragic last flight, is out now. On the album, she is joined by the Czech orchestra Filharmonie Brno, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, and Anohni, Gabriel Cabezas, Rob Moose, Ryan Kelly, Martha Mooke, Marc Ribot, Tony Scherr, Nadia Sirota, and Kenny Wollesen. Anderson shares the story behind the album in a new video you can watch here, featuring her conversations with author/journalist Jonathan Cott and conductor/arranger Dennis Russell Davies, archival photographs and film, and songs from the album.