The Black Keys' performance at First Avenue in Minneapolis this Friday is sold out, so Dan and Patrick have scheduled an additional show earlier in the day at 7th Street Entry, exclusively for listeners of Minnesota Public Radio station The Current, 89.3 FM. The station will be giving away tickets all week.

Wilco, The Black Keys, and Amadou & Mariam will be among the bands playing at this year's Lollapalooza, the event's organizers have announced. The lineup for the three-day festival, to be held at Chicago's Grant Park, August 1-3, includes more than 100 artists, including Radiohead, The Raconteurs, Nine Inch Nails, and Kanye West.

Youssou N'Dour was in London this week to perform with his Super Etoile band at Indig02, and The Independent gives the show four stars. The paper sees Youssou's latest Nonesuch release, Rokku Mi Rokka (Give and Take), as "the weave of percussion, bass lines and quicksilver guitars with N'Dour's extraordinary voice that stands out. His singing is a rhythmic device as much as an emotional force."

Mandy Patinkin returns to Broadway, the site of his Tony Award-winning musical debut in Evita, his starring role in the original production of Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George, and countless other performances, on May 19 for a one-night-only event to benefit the off-Broadway Classic Stage Company. He will be accompanied by his longtime pianist, Paul Ford, in this special solo performance at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.

The Black Keys rocked The Wiltern in Los Angeles last night, celebrating the release of their new album, Attack & Release, with a couple thousand fans. The Associated Press album review struggles to single out one song to recommend above the rest: "There are so many delightful songs here, it's hard to pick one. Let's go with 'Psychotic Girl,' a song so unlike anything the Keys have done it's startling ... a melange of familiar sounds spun into a new flavor of cotton candy we've never tasted before."

Bill Frisell and Glenn Kotche will be on hand in Cincinnati, Ohio, this week as the third annual MusicNOW festival, organized by native son Bryce Dessner of The National, gets under way at Memorial Hall tonight. Kotche performed in the inaugural MusicNOW in 2006 and returns this Friday to perform with Dessner and Bang on a Can on a double bill with Dirty Projectors. Frisell makes his MusicNOW debut tomorrow night.

Looking forward to tonight's Punch Brothers performance at The Ark in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the Detroit Free Press calls the band's Nonesuch debut, Punch, "one of the best records so far this year, an elegantly sculpted work that doesn't let its high-end chops overshadow its heart."

The Bravo! Canada network's award-winning series Live at the Rehearsal Hall will feature k.d. lang and her band in concert performing songs from Watershed and favorites from throughout her career. The show will debut tomorrow night, April 1. Past episodes of the series have featured a broad array of artists, including Beck, Feist, Rufus Wainwright, and Philip Glass.