The Black Keys, whose headline set on the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival's What Stage last weekend was described as "supersized and stunning" by Rolling Stone magazine, can be seen across the US this weekend when NBC rebroadcasts the Saturday Night Live episode from earlier this year on which they are musical guests. On the show, hosted by Jim Carrey, the band plays "Howlin' for You" and "Tighten Up" off their Grammy-winning Nonesuch release, Brothers.

Back when the episode first aired, Twenty-Four Bit called the show a "much-deserved victory lap" for the album's success. HitFix described the surroundings in which they played: "Just a bare stage in this case, which is all that’s needed when the music is this good."

Tune in Saturday night on NBC starting at 11:30 PM ET.

The band performs live at Canada's MuchMusic Video Awards Sunday night. Fans in Canada can tune into the MMVA broadcast starting at 9 PM ET; fans in the US can watch live on FUSE.

The Black Keys launch a North American summer tour later this month.

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John Adams's opera The Death of Klinghoffer received its first US staged production since its original 1991 production with Wednesday's Opening Night performance at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Performances continue this weekend and through next week.

"The final opera in OTSL's season," writes St. Louis Post Dispatch classical music critic Sarah Bryan Miller, "is also its artistic high point. Artistic director James Robinson shines in the contemporary repertoire; Klinghoffer is one of the best things he's done here. The production is moving, never mawkish."

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Laurie Anderson continues her European tour of her latest theatre piece, Delusion, with two performances in Israel: at the Shuni Amphitheater in Binyamina tonight and at the Frederic R. Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv on Sunday. "Israel is about to get a lesson in the art of communication," writes the Jerusalem Post's David Brinn. "For anyone who’s fallen into the web of Anderson’s wildly captivating performances, the only delusion is worrying that it will end."

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Timothy Andres and Philip Glass each perform as a part of the annual Bang on a Can Marathon, 13 hours of free live music from over 150 musicians, located at the World Financial Center's Winter Garden in New York City. Andres performs his own At the River on Sunday at 6 PM, while Glass, joined by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, performs his works Music in Similar Motion and Closing later the same night at 8 PM.

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Carolina Chocolate Drops are back on the road. Following multiple performances earlier this week at the OK Mozart Festival in Oklahoma, the group heads to Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Saturday for the Riverbend Festival, held on the waterfront along the Tennessee River. They take the Bud Light Stage at 6 PM.

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Shawn Colvin performs at the Grand Sierra Resort’s Grand Theatre in Reno, Nevada, on Saturday, on a double bill with fellow singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter.

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Richard Goode has returned to the Marlboro Music Festival, which began yesterday, as its co-artistic director with fellow pianist Mitsuko Uchida. At Marlboro Music, exceptional young professional musicians learn by playing together with master artists. Marlboro's 60th anniversary season includes five weekends of public concerts beginning one month from now, July 16, and concluding on Sunday, August 14.

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Emmylou Harris launches her summer tour out West this weekend, performing at the sold-out 38th annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Colorado tonight and at the University of New Mexico's Popejoy Hall in Santa Fe on Sunday. Reviewing her performance at the Royal Festival Hall in London last week, Cary Gee of Tribune magazine writes that “the voice of contemporary Americana remains a thing of breathtaking beauty.”

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Wanda Jackson performs at the Mountain Stage live show at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, West Virginia, on Sunday night. Hosted by Larry Groce, the program also includes performances by Carolyn Wonderland, Jimmie Dale Gilmore & The Wronglers, and The New Rope String Band. Jackson recently spoke with the Charleston Gazette about her relationship with Elvis for a profile available at sundaygazettemail.com. Praising her set at Bonnaroo last weekend, Rolling Stone said Jackson “took the crowd on a rock 'n' roll history tour.”

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James Farm, the collaborative band featuring Joshua Redman, Aaron Parks, Matt Penman, and Eric Harland, kicked off its four-night residency at the Jazz Standard last night in New York City. The band continues with six performances this weekend, at 7:30 PM and 9 PM tonight, Saturday, and Sunday. The group members “share a fondness for sleek convolution and introspective groove,” says the New York Times, and perform music from their latest self-titled Nonesuch release, which JazzTimes calls “a very cool album.”

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Glenn Kotche performs Saturday night at the NYU Skirball Center in New York City as a part of Radiolab Concerts: Curious Sounds. This live concert taping for an upcoming episode of the Radiolab podcast also features Buke & Glass and a surprise special guest in addition to conversations with all three musical acts. "Each act has a distinct, one-of-a-kind sound," say the folks at Radiolab, "but all three share a spirit of exploration and musical adventure."

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After launching her North American tour in Rochester, New York, last night, k.d. lang heads back to her Canadian homeland this weekend with the Siss Boom Bang for a free outdoor concert in Toronto tonight, as a part of the 2011 Luminato Festival. They perform on the Festival Main Stage in Toronto’s Metro Hall Square with special guest The Bell Brigade before heading to London, Ontario, for a show at the Grand Theatre Saturday night.

The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, reviewing last night's tour-opening concert at the Rochester Jazz Festival, says lang's "voice was potent from the get-go ... at the core of her singing is that incredibly smooth flawless pitch." The Rochester City Newspaper says her "vocals were absolutely amazing as they shook the hall."

The Independent describes Sing it Loud, lang's new album with the Siss Boom Bang as "an elegant, understated LP that contains nods to the singer's country-pop roots and brims with warmth and contentment."

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The Low Anthem, following last night's show in Brooklyn and last weekend's performance at Bonnaroo, which SPIN magazine considered one of the festival's best, performs tonight in Newtown, Connecticut, at Edmond Town Hall, with former band member Daniel Lefkowitz opening. The Low Anthem then heads to Croton-on-Hudson, New York, on Saturday for a set at Pete Seeger's Clearwater Festival in Croton Point Park. The band is off to Europe next for a number of festival dates there.

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The Punch Brothers travel to Telluride, Colorado, this weekend for performances at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, with a mainstage set on Sunday at 5:30 PM and an intimate NightGrass indoor performance later that night in the Sheridan Opera House, starting at 10 PM.

Before his festival performance with the Punch Brothers on Sunday, Chris Thile joins duo partner Michael Daves for an 11:15 AM mainstage show at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival this morning. The performance features music from their debut Nonesuch album, Sleep with One Eye Open.

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Steve Reich is the subject of the documentary film Phase to Face, which is being screened Saturday evening at London's AV Hill as part of the Open City London documentary festival. Drowned in Sound spoke with the composer and the director, Eric Darmon, about the film and Reich's music. You can read the interview at drownedinsound.com.

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Following an exciting Bonnaroo performance with the legendary Dr. John, Allen Toussaint, a legend in his own right, hits the Midwest for two shows this weekend: at SPACE in Evanston, Illinois, on Saturday and at the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis on Sunday.

Nonesuch congratulates Toussaint, who was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in a ceremony held last night in New York City.

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Dawn Upshaw helped launch Ojai North! in Berkeley, California, earlier this week, featuring music from last weekend's Ojai Music Festival. Last night, Upshaw joined pianist Gilbert Kalish, director Peter Sellars, and the ensemble red fish blue fish at Berkeley's Zellerbach Playhouse for a new staged production of George Crumb’s The Winds of Destiny (American Songbook IV). They offer an encore performance on Saturday.

Writing of the recent performance of the piece at Ojai, Los Angeles Times music critic Mark Swed sugests that, for Upshaw, this was “one of the most astonishing and important performances of her career.”

Upshaw, Sellars, and Kalish all spoke with NPR about the performance in a piece you can hear at npr.org.

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Sara Watkins performs two sets at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival on Saturday: a Sara & Friends show at 11:45 AM and then, continuing her tour with the Decemberists, a 6:15 PM set with the group.