Randy Newman has added shows in the Netherlands, France, and Belgium to his previously announced European tour in early 2018 featuring music from his new album, Dark Matter. The new dates—with stops in Paris, Amsterdam, Groningen, Rotterdam, Eindhoven, Utrecht, Antwerp, Bruges, and Ghent—are part of the previously announced tour that includes stops in the UK, Ireland, and Germany in February and March.

Robert Plant has released a new song, "Bones of Saints," from his forthcoming album, Carry Fire, due October 13. The song is available to download now with pre-orders of the album, along with the recently released opening track, "The May Queen." Watch the "Bones of Saints" lyric video here.

Lake Street Dive kicks off final week of US summer tour … Sam Amidon is in Switzerland … Devendra Banhart begins South American tour … Emmylou Harris performs in Virginia … Kronos Quartet is in Singapore … k.d. lang continues Ingénue Redux Tour in Québec … The Magnetic Fields bring 50 Song Memoir to Bristol, Liverpool … Conor Oberst plays Pacific Northwest … and more …

Conor Oberst, with the Felice Brothers as his backing band, has returned to North America to begin the next leg of his Salutations tour. They perform a sold-out show at The Wild Buffalo in Bellingham, WA, Friday, followed by shows in Seattle, Portland, Milwaukee, Chicago, Toronto, Pittsburgh, and more over the next few weeks. The tour picks up again in October with stops back West and across the South.

Devendra Banhart begins a tour of South America, featuring music from his latest album, Ape in Pink Marble, with a performance at CC Barranco in Lima, Peru, on Friday. The 10-city tour includes a concert in Santiago, Chile, seven shows in Brazil, and a final stop in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

French singer/composer Camille has unveiled the video for her song "Seeds," from her new album, OUÏ, due in the US on October 13. The video, co-directed by Camille and Olivier Montoro, was made at L'Axe Majeur, a monumental, unfinished bridge, stretching over two miles, just outside of Paris. The bridge was designed by Israeli sculptor Dani Karavan and built over thirty years. "Here is a little seed of love," Camille says of the video, "hoping it will grow within you." Watch it here. Camille will perform at NYC's (Le) Poisson Rouge on October 16.

Nonesuch releases Louis Andriessen's stagework Theatre of the World—recorded live during the Los Angeles Philharmonic's 2016 world premiere performances with conductor Reinbert de Leeuw and director Pierre Audi—on September 29, 2017. The nine-scene multimedia work, which features a libretto by Helmut Krausser, is a far-ranging exploration of the German Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher (1601–1680). The Los Angeles Times says: "Brilliant and deep, Andriessen's music compels from start to finish."

Dan Auerbach debuted the music video for "Stand By My Girl," a song from his new album, Waiting on a Song, via Stereogum. The video, about a femme fatale and the men who love her, was directed by Allister Ann, who said of the process, "Sometimes you just get lucky. A song, an artist and a vision come together and seem to align perfectly, and when that happens, it's pure magic." You can watch it here.

Robert Plant produced his eleventh studio album, Carry Fire, due October 13, in the west of England and Wales. As with his 2014 album, lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar, the album features his band The Sensational Space Shifters. Here, Plant speaks with writer Michael Hill about the project and how it came to be. "I've filled many British passports," he says. "I feel like a mariner who has spent so much time in so many different ports of call, experiencing so many different adventures and scenarios."

The Magnetic Fields have brought their 50 Song Memoir tour—which chronicles the 50 years of songwriter Stephin Merritt's life with one song per year—to the UK and Ireland. The tour, performed over two nights in each city (songs 1–25 on night one, songs 26–50 on night two), begins with two nights at the Edinburgh International Festival this Friday and Saturday, followed by dates in Dublin, Bristol, Liverpool, and Brighton, culminating at London’s Barbican Hall on September 9 and 10.

Kronos Quartet, which released an album of Folk Songs with four Nonesuch label mates in June, has announced its concert season for the autumn of 2017. On the schedule ahead are travels to Singapore, South Korea, and throughout the US and Canada, as well as multiple shows in and around the quartet's hometown of San Francisco.

Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold was a guest on NPR's All Things Considered. He discusses the band's new album, Crack-Up, and shares some of the experiences he had in the years since the release of the group's previous album. "Anything can teach you a lesson that you apply to what you make," says Pecknold. "And I still feel that way. I still feel like the more experience I have outside music, the closer my music is to what I want it to be. And it's just about chasing those experiences." You can hear what else he has to say in the interview here.