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.

Robert Plant's eleventh studio album, Carry Fire, will be released by Nonesuch/Warner Bros. Records on October 13, 2017. The album, produced by Plant in the west of England and Wales, melds unusual rhythms with naturalism. As with his 2014 album, lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar, the album features his band The Sensational Space Shifters. They are also joined here by special guests, including Chrissie Hynde. Nonesuch Store pre-orders include an exclusive print and an instant download of the album's opening track, "The May Queen."

Dark Matter, Randy Newman's first album of new material in nine years, is now available on vinyl, following its recent CD and digital release. Produced by long-time Newman collaborators Mitchell Froom, Lenny Waronker, and David Boucher, the album includes songs about Vladimir Putin, the Kennedy brothers, Sonny Boy Williamson, science vs. religion, love and loss, and more. Randy Newman "remains first and foremost a craftsman of song, capable of telling ordinary stories in ways no one quite has before," says NPR. Newman is "still at the top of his game," says the AP. He "just gets better," says ABC News. "Dark Matter is the work of a master craftsman ... frankly brilliant."

k.d. lang's Ingénue: 25th Anniversary Edition is now available on vinyl, following its recent release on CD and digitally. The new two-LP set, celebrating the double platinum-selling, Grammy-winning album's silver anniversary, includes remastered versions of the album's original ten tracks, including its huge hit, "Constant Craving," along with eight previously unreleased performances from lang's 1993 MTV Unplugged episode, recorded in NYC's famed Ed Sullivan Theater. Additionally, lang marks the anniversary with the Ingénue Redux Tour, currently making its way across her home country of Canada.

Olivia Chaney concludes her tour with Offa Rex partners The Decemberists on the US West Coast … Fleet Foxes play Dallas … Rhiannon Giddens, Lake Street Dive perform at Rocky Mountains Folks Festival in Colorado … k.d. lang continues Ingénue Redux Tour in Edmonton … Conor Oberst brings Salutations to the UK … and more ...

Following the release of Dark Matter, Randy Newman will tour Europe in February and March. The tour includes three UK shows—at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall on March 8, Gateshead’s Sage on March 12, and London’s Palladium on March 14—as well as performances in Germany and Ireland, with further European dates to be announced shortly.

Tigran Hamasyan has shared a video giving a behind-the-scenes look in the studio during the recording of his new album, An Ancient Observer. The album was produced by Hamasyan and recorded by Antoine Gaillet at Studio de Meudon in Meudon, France, in June 2016. The video was made by Armen Catanasyan. You can watch it here.