The Black Keys have brought their European tour to the UK—where their new album, El Camino, has now gone gold—for more than a week's worth of concerts, starting at Capital FM Arena in Nottingham tonight and followed by a sold-out show at the Corn Exchange in Edinburgh. The band heads to Manchester next for two sold-out shows at the O2 Apollo and then to London for a run of three sold-out shows at Alexandra Palace with Band of Skulls. Band of Skulls opens all along the way. The poster for tonight's show, pictured at left, was designed by Steven Wilson in Brighton.

The band is the subject of a feature article in the Independent. The paper's Andy Gill visited the band at Dan Auerbach's Easy Eye Studio in Nashville to discuss El Camino and its titular not to their early days on the road. The new album "sounds absolutely massive," writes Gill. "Next week, you can catch them trundling it through the Alexandra Palace, demonstrating exactly how such a tiny band makes a noise huge enough to fill the most cavernous space." Read the article at independent.co.uk.

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John Adams will be a guest on BBC Radio 3's Music Matters tomorrow at 12:15 PM GMT. The composer will discuss the forthcoming production of his opera The Death of Klinghoffer at the English National Opera in London. Performances begin February 25 and run through March 9.

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Laurie Anderson will join Professor Dean Buonomano for a sold-out event at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City on Saturday titled Brain Bugs. Buonomano is professor in the Departments of Neurobiology and Psychology, and a member of the Brain Research Institute, and the Integrative Center for Learning and Memory at UCLA. Saturday's event marks Anderson's sixth appearance at the Rubin Museum of Art.

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Timothy Andres joins the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony for a concert at the Gallagher-Bluedorn Great Hall in Cedar Falls, Iowa, on Saturday. The program opens with Andres's Bathtub Shrine, followed by a performance from Andres and the orchestra of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 26 in D major, featuring his reconstruction of the concerto's unfinished solo part. Closing the program is Schumann's Symphony No. 4.

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As noted earlier today in the Nonesuch Journal, Björk launches her ten-show Biophilia residency in New York with the first of six performances at the New York Hall of Science in Queens tonight.

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Carolina Chocolate Drops return to their home state for a performance at the University of North Carolina's Memorial Hall in Chapel Hill tonight. The show reunites the Chocolate Drops with New York–based gypsy punk band Luminescent Orchestrii, with whom they released a four-song EP last year. "The energetic band has kept up a grueling tour schedule, wowing audiences with their roots music chops and pure showmanship," says the Independent Weekly in Durham. "Given the Chocolate Drops' catch-all creativity, fueled by fiddles, kazoos, drums, jugs and jigs, along with a continually adventurous spirit, there's little telling where they'll go tonight—or any other evening, for that matter."

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Richard Goode gives a solo recital at Perth Concert Hall in Perth, Scotland, tonight. On the program are works by Schumann and Chopin.

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Gidon Kremer and his Kremerata Baltica chamber orchestra continue their European tour celebrating Kremer's 65th birthday with a performance at Paulussaal in Freiburg, Germany, tonight, also featuring pianist Martha Agerich and trumpeter Sergei Nakariakov. On the program are works by Schubert, Schumann, and Shostakovich. On Sunday, Kremer and the orchestra head to Amsterdam to perform works by Bach, Beethoven, and Sofia Gubaidulina at the Muziekgebouw.

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Kronos Quartet is joined by the Alim Qasimov Ensemble for a performance at Hertz Hall in Berkeley, California, on Saturday. Kronos opens the program with works by Michael Gordon, Bob Dylan, and Franghiz Ali-Zadeh. Kronos Quartet founder, violinist, and artistic director David Harrington spoke with the San Francisco Classical Voice's Jeff Kalisss about the collaboration and concert. Read the interview at sfcv.org.

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The Low Anthem continues its tour across Canada supporting City and Colour at the Burton Cummings Theatre in Winnipeg tonight. The tour takes a rare dip south of the 49th parallel for a stop at First Avenue in Minneapolis Saturday night.

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Brad Mehldau performs six sets over two nights at Smoke in New York City tonight and Saturday with drummer Mark Guiliana. "In the era when Smoke was Augie’s—a student hangout, invariably full of actual smoke," writes the New York Times's Nate Chinen, "Mr. Mehldau was one of its habitués. He makes his return as an improvising pianist of exalted stature, whether he’s working with his trio (as at a recent Village Vanguard run), in a piano-duo format (as on his most recent Nonesuch release, Modern Music), or in a duo with the drummer Mark Giuliana (as is the case here)."

Mehldau's new album with his Trio, Ode, is due out on March 13 and is available for pre-order now in the Nonesuch Store with an instant download of the title track.

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Joshua Redman, who celebrated his birthday on Wednesday, continues his European tour with his Trio featuring bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Gregory Hutchinson with two stops in Germany this weekend: at Bahnhof Fischbach in Friedrichshafen tonight and Jazzhaus Freiburg on Saturday.

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Sara Watkins performs at the Coral Springs Center in Coral Springs, Florida, opening for the legendary John Prine, tonight. On Sunday, she heads out with the Cayamo Cruise for a week of music as the Norwegian Pearl makes its way from Miami to Cayo Levantado, St. Maarten, and St. Barts.