Mary Halvorson and her new quartet are in NYC. Timo Andres performs in DC with Aaron Diehl. Julia Bullock joins Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Rhiannon Giddens is at Blue Note Tokyo. Emmylou Harris cruises on Cayamo. Hurray for the Riff Raff tours Texas and Baton Rouge with Bright Eyes. Nathalie Joachim brings Ki moun ou ye to Carlsbad, CA, and Beaverton, OR, where Steve Reich's Different Trains is performed.

Hurray for the Riff Raff, following the announcement of their headline US tour last week and the start of their tour with Bright Eyes,  has just added a handful of additional performances for 2025. Extending their run of shows from spring and summer into fall, newly added stops include an appearance at Newport Folk Festival, dates with The Head and the Heart, and a special night in their new home city of Chicago, at Old Town School of Folk Music.

A three-song suite from the album Song of the Earth, David Longstreth’s song cycle for orchestra and voices he performs with his band Dirty Projectors and the chamber orchestra s t a r g a z e—“At Home,” “Circled in Purple,” and “Our Green Garden”—is out now, along with a lyric video you can watch here. “Past reports of Dirty Projectors going full prog are greatly exaggerated; until now I’ve never released an album with a straight-up suite of songs," Longstreth says. "As the slashes in the title imply, this is a three-song suite. It’s just the way it happened. Consider it an entry in your ‘A Day in the Life’ / ‘Paranoid Android’ / ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ / ‘Sicko Mode’ category: a sprawling journey that feels like slipping into a dream. A kaleidoscopic river-of-consciousness.”

Wood shop proprietor and Wilco friend and fan Nick Offerman has cracked open the new nine-LP, four-CD deluxe edition of the band's GRAMMY-winning 2004 album A Ghost Is Born to take a look inside. You can watch the unboxing video here.

David Longstreth hosts a listening party / performance of songs from his upcoming album, Song of the Earth, in LA. Nathalie Joachim performs Ki moun ou ye in DC. Gabriel Kahane and Jeffrey Kahane perform with Orchestra Lumos in Stamford. Brad Mehldau plays from Après Fauré and After Bach II in Germany. Cécile McLorin Salvant performs in Chicago and Palm Springs. Yasmin Williams is at Wintergrass in Washington State.

Hurray for the Riff Raff, just before the one-year anniversary of their acclaimed album The Past Is Still Alive, has shared their first new single and music video of 2025, “Pyramid Scheme.” The song embodies that record’s spirit of resilience and rebellion, with lyrical nods to Billy the Kid, Calamity Jane, Darby Crash, and Frida Kahlo. You can watch the video, animated by Jayla Kai Smith, here. Hurray for the Riff Raff has also announced dozens of spring/summer US tour dates.

Composer/performer David Longstreth, whose new album with his band Dirty Projectors and the chamber orchestra s t a r g a z e, Song of the Earth, is out April 4, stopped by for the Nonesuch Selects video series, in which artists visit the Nonesuch office, pick some of their favorite albums from the music library, and share a few words on their choices. He chose recordings by David Byrne, Jonny Greenwood, Bulgarian State Television Female Choir, Caetano Veloso, Tyondai Braxton, Scritti Politti, and João Gilberto, and from the Nonesuch Explorer Series.

Happy Valentine’s Day! Caroline Shaw leads three concerts as artistic director of Laguna Beach Music Festival, joined by Sō Percussion, Gabriel Kahane. Laurie Anderson, John Zorn perform in Brooklyn. David Byrne performs at Radio City Music Hall for SNL50 Homecoming Concert streaming on Peacock. Kronos Quartet is in LA. Brad Mehldau plays Fauré, The Beatles in Basel. Mandy Patinkin is in New Jersey and Ohio. Davóne Tines brings ROBESOИ to the Barbican. Yasmin Williams tours US Northeast.

Emmylou Harris's groundbreaking 1995 album Wrecking Ball will be inducted into the GRAMMY Hall of Fame at a special gala on May 16. Wrecking Ball was produced by Daniel Lanois and won the 1996 GRAMMY Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. "Music has the unique power to shape culture and mark moments in time," said Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason, Jr. "Each inducted recording reflects that spirit, and we’re excited to celebrate these impactful works, ensuring their legacies continue to inspire generations to come."

Carnegie Hall has announced its 2025–26 concert season, and featured among the performers taking its Zankel Hall stage are Timo Andres, Kronos Quartet, Davóne Tines, and Sō Percussion, all part of Carnegie's United in Sound: America at 250 festival, and heard throughout its halls will be works by Caroline Shaw, Gabriel Kahane, and Steve Reich.

The Amsterdam-based duo of Bolivian-born singer/instrumentalist Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti and Chicago ex-pat jazz drummer Frank Rosaly have released a remix of "BALADA PARA LA CORPORATOCRACIA," from their debut album, MESTIZX, by Andy Moor, of the Dutch anarcho-punk band The Ex. "Andy has so much experience with communal music from around the globe ... but he’s also lived the life of a musical activist, which is apparent in everything he does," Ferragutti and Rosaly say. "We didn’t think 'BALADA PARA LA CORPORATOCRACIA' could get any filthier, but he proved us wrong!" Ferragutti, Rosaly, and their band tour the US in March, with shows in Chicago, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, NYC, and Big Ears Festival in Knoxville.

A deluxe edition of Wilco’s 2004 Grammy Award–winning album A Ghost Is Born is out now. The box set comprises either nine vinyl LPs and four CDs or nine CDs—including the original album, alternates, outtakes, and demos, charting the making of A Ghost Is Born—plus the complete 2004 concert recording from Boston’s Wang Center and the band’s “fundamentals” workshop sessions. It includes sixty-five previously unreleased music tracks as well as a forty-eight-page hardcover book with previously unpublished photos and a new liner note by Grammy-winning writer Bob Mehr. There is also a new vinyl pressing of the original album in a two-disc package, and a two-CD expanded version of the original album with bonus track highlights from the full deluxe edition repertoire. The two-CD version is also available on streaming services worldwide.