Congratulations to Rhiannon Giddens, who has won her first Songlines Music Award, for her latest album, Freedom Highway, in the Americas category. The winners were announced in the June issue of the magazine, on sale now. Songlines gave Freedom Highway four stars when it was released, calling the title track "the closing triumph to a wonderful set."

Brad Mehldau Trio tours Europe … Sam Amidon, Rhiannon Giddens play Fiddle Fair in Ireland … David Byrne brings American Utopia tour Northeast … Fleet Foxes play Southwest … Richard Goode joins Netherlands Philharmonic … Tigran Hamasyan, Kronos Quartet perform in France … Gabriel Kahane premieres new work in Portland … Lake Street Dive takes Free Yourself Up to Pennsylvania … Audra McDonald is in California … Stephin Merritt plays Bang on a Can Marathon in NYC … Nico Muhly makes Singapore debut … and more …

Lake Street Dive recently stopped by Brooklyn's Retrofret Vintage Guitars to join NYC public radio station WFUV for a session of NPR's Night Owl. "Watch Lake Street Dive masterfully blend jazz, soul and pop in its performance of 'Baby Don't Leave Me Alone with My Thoughts,'" says the show. You can do so here. The song is the opening track to the band's new album, Free Yourself Up, out now.

Saxophonist/composer Joshua Redman, drummer Brian Blade, bassist Scott Colley, and trumpeter Ron Miles performed songs from their forthcoming album, Still Dreaming, at last year's Jazz in Marciac festival. You can watch a performance of "Unanimity" at Marciac here. Download the album track now when you pre-order Still Dreaming. The project was inspired by the band Old and New Dreams, of which Joshua Redman's father Dewey Redman was an integral part.

The Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt and Sam Davol were on New Sounds' Soundcheck. Merritt spoke with host John Schaefer about the album 50 Song Memoir, for which he chronicled the first fifty years of his life with one song per year, and he and Davol performed songs from the album and more. You can watch the interview and performance below. The Magnetic Fields will perform 50 Song Memoir on tour in NYC, Pittsburgh, and Toronto in June. 

The first recording of John Adams's 2005 opera, Doctor Atomic, is due June 29 on Nonesuch. The composer leads the BBC Singers and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with a cast led by Gerald Finley and Julia Bullock. Longtime Adams collaborator Peter Sellars created the libretto, drawing from original sources. "A magnificent accomplishment," exclaims the Los Angeles Times. "It contains music of unearthly splendor." Pre-order to download the aria "Batter my heart" and the chorus "At the sight of this" now.

Lake Street Dive returned to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS last night to perform the song "Good Kisser," from their just-released album, Free Yourself Up. You can watch it here. The band's tour heads to Burlington, New Haven, and Brooklyn this week.

Rostam has released a visualizer for the song "Sumer," off his album Half-Light, which you can watch here. He performs at Brooklyn Steel and at the Sasquatch Music Festival later this month. Rostam begins a European tour at Primavera Sound on May 31, with stops in France, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, and Ireland, and UK shows in London and Brighton.

Lake Street Dive's new album, Free Yourself Up, is out now. Today also marks the start of an extensive Free Yourself Up tour, which begins with an intimate show at The Sinclair in the band's original home of Boston tonight. And Lake Street Dive has released the official music video for the album track "Good Kisser," directed by Bianca Giaever, which you can watch here. The band will perform on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Monday, May 7.

A limited number of Fleet Foxes' new vinyl 7" single "Crack-Up" (Choral Version) b/w "In the Morning" (Live in Switzerland), first released for Record Store Day 2018, is now available in the Nonesuch Store, where it is also available to download. It is also available digitally everywhere. The release features a special recording of the title track to their 2017 album Crack-Up, performed with the Icelandic women’s choir Graduale Nobili in Reykjavik, as well as an intimate version of "In the Morning" recorded live at the 2017 Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.

Devendra Banhart will lead a six-city tour of duo performances with his longtime collaborator Noah Georgeson in Asia this June, starting in Seoul on June 6, with concerts in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Singapore and culminating in Bangkok on June 16. Banhart will also headline the LTDOMX festival in Silao, Mexico, on May 19.

David Byrne takes his American Utopia tour down South … Sam Amidon performs in the UK … Fleet Foxes play Shaky Knees in Atlanta … Lake Street Dive launches Free Yourself Up tour in Boston … Audra McDonald is in Missouri … Nico Muhly, Teitur perform Confessions in Germany … Joshua Redman leads DC residency … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from the Ryman in Nashville … and more …