This holiday season, Chris Thile leads Live From Here from NYC with Gaby Moreno, Noam Pikelny, Sara Watkins … Olivia Chaney performs from Shelter in London … Jeremy Denk is at Carnegie Hall … Emmylou Harris joins Rufus & Martha Wainwright for Noël Nights in NYC … Joshua Redman is in France … Rokia Traoré brings new project to Brussels … Lake Street Dive celebrates New Year's in Northeast … John Adams’s El Niño is performed in NYC … Nico Muhly, Teitur perform Confessions for New Year’s Eve in London …

Two acclaimed Nonesuch albums are newly available as 96kHz/24bit HD digital downloads in the Nonesuch Store: Pat Metheny & Brad Mehldau's 2006 eponymous duo album ("sublime," BBC) and Metheny's 2011 solo album What's It All About ("a realm of beauty," Boston Herald).

Chris Thile gave a nod to his Nonesuch label mate David Byrne when he performed the Talking Heads' tune "(Nothing But) Flowers" on Live From Here last weekend, along with special guests Maggie Rogers, Sarah Jarosz, Vulfpeck, and Punch Brothers banjoist Noam Pikelny. Watch it here. Caetano Veloso offered his own take on the song on his 2004 album, A Foreign Sound, and again, this time with Byrne, on their 2012 album, Live at Carnegie Hall.

Sam Amidon will tour the West Coast of the US and Canada in early 2019 joined by saxophonist Sam Gendel, starting at Western Front in Vancouver on February 25. The six-city tour continues with shows in Seattle, Portland, Berkeley (with Bill Frisell), Soquel, and Los Angeles. The North American tour follows Amidon's UK tour as special guest of Laura Veirs in February.

Chris Thile spoke with WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show about hosting the radio show Live From Here, holding Carnegie Hall's Debs Composer's Chair, becoming a MacArthur Fellow, and more. He also performed two songs: "St. Mike," a Live From Here Song of the Week about Michael Cohen, and "Attaboy," from The Goat Rodeo Sessions. You can listen to the session here. Live From Here continues its residency at The Town Hall in NYC for the next two Saturdays.

Jonny Greenwood's acclaimed score to Paul Thomas Anderson's Academy Award–winning film There Will Be Blood, first released on Nonesuch Records in 2007, will be released on vinyl worldwide for the first time on January 18. Indiewire has named it one of the 25 Best Movie Scores of the 21st Century. The LP—mastered for vinyl at Abbey Road Studios and pressed at Record Industry in the Netherlands with two additional tracks, and housed in an old-style gatefold jacket—is available to pre-order now in the Nonesuch Store.

"The American Utopia tour may just be the best live show of all time." That's what NME said of David Byrne's American Utopia tour. And as the ten-month, 144-date tour wraps up comes a new EP entitled "…The Best Live Show of All Time"—NME featuring six songs recorded live on tour at Brooklyn's Kings Theatre. The EP is available on CD and in specially priced bundles with the album on CD or LP exclusively from the Nonesuch Store. The new American Utopia (Deluxe Edition)—the complete album plus the six live songs from the EP—is also available now via all streaming and download services.

Mountain Man continues its first US tour in six years this spring with new headlining and festival dates across the south and east, beginning March 16 in Houston. You can watch a new video of Mountain Man performing "Boat" from their new album, Magic Ship, at a recent sold-out hometown show, here. The New Yorker's Amanda Petrusich has named Magic Ship one of the ten best albums of 2018: "It’s heavy with acquired wisdom, and with vocals so haunting they’ll make you shiver."

k.d. lang's Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special, which features a concert celebrating the 25th anniversary of her acclaimed 1992 album Ingénue from the Majestic Theater in San Antonio, TX, premieres this Friday, December 14, on PBS. Ahead of its television debut, you can now watch her performance of "Miss Chatelaine" from the special here.

Congratulations to all of the Nonesuch nominees for the 61st Annual Grammy Awards: David Byrne for American Utopia; Brad Mehldau and his Trio for Seymour Reads the Constitution!; Joshua Redman, Brian Blade, Scott Colley, and Ron Miles for Still Dreaming; Punch Brothers for All Ashore; John Adams for Doctor Atomic; Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet for Landfall; and Judith Sherman, up for Producer of the Year, Classical, for her work including Steve Reich's Pulse / Quartet.

Lake Street Dive's new limited-edition 10" vinyl EP, Freak Yourself Out, first released for Record Store Day: Black Friday last month, is now available in the Nonesuch Store, while supplies last. Freak Yourself Out features five songs recorded during the sessions for the band's chart-topping album Free Yourself Up that had not been finished. The band had so much fun playing the songs on tour this year, they went back into the studio and finished them for this special release. 

Conor Oberst released his Nonesuch Records debut album, Upside Down Mountain, in May 2014. Earlier that spring, he had previewed what was to come with the release of a limited-edition vinyl 7" for Record Store Day, featuring the album track "Hundreds of Ways" b/w the album outtake "Fast Friends." Later that year, for Record Store Day: Black Friday, came another limited-edition vinyl 7" with two non-album tracks recorded during the Upside Down Mountain sessions: "Standing on the Outside Looking In" b/w "Sugar Street." All of those tracks are finally available digitally and can be heard here.