The Magnetic Fields take the 50 Song Memoir concert tour to Spain this weekend. The band brings the stage extravaganza, directed by José Zayas, to Parc del Fòrum in Barcelona, as part of the sold-out Primavera Sound festival, tonight (songs 1–25) and Saturday (songs 26–50). Pitchfork calls 50 Song Memoir "an immersive, incisive listen ... It suggests that our deepest wisdom can be located in our most personal thoughts." Just in time for the festival, Stephin Merritt has shared some tunes with Spotify’s AM/PM series. You can hear what Spotify calls “a master-class in brilliantly realized pop” here.

Composer Shye Ben Tzur and the Rajasthan Express perform at Primavera Sound this weekend as well, bringing music from Junun to Parc del Fòrum on Saturday. Their set follows a performance with guitarist Jonny Greenwood at Palazzo Mauro de André in Ravenna, Italy, tonight, as part of the Ravenna Festival. Ben Tzur, Greenwood, and the group first reunited to play Junun, the album they recorded in India in 2015, at Barbican Hall in London last year. The Financial Times gave the show four stars, praising the music’s “uncomplicated exuberance … this was music that transported the listener, not just to the state of Rajasthan but to a state of mesmeric bliss.”

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Tigran Hamasyan’s world tour, featuring music from his new album, An Ancient Observer, has landed in Australia this weekend, with shows at Queensland Multicultural Centre in Kangaroo Point tonight, as part of the Brisbane International Jazz Festival, and at Verbrugghen Hall in Syndey on Sunday. The pianist performs twice at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival early next week.

Hamasyan spoke with The Australian's Jane Cornwell about life in Armenia and about the "wildly acclaimed solo piano project" that is his new album. "It's laced with minor, melancholy chords and imbued with a fierce beauty; you won't find anything else like it." Cornwell goes on to say of his live performances: "To watch him play—at Carnegie Hall in New York, say, or as the opening act of the London Jazz Festival—is to watch a maestro tapped into another dimension, directed by an energy that feels almost otherworldly." You can read the in-depth article at theaustralian.com.au.

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Emmylou Harris performs on the Main Stage at Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio, Sunday evening, playing the closing set of the Nelsonville Music Festival. The following day, Harris heads out on a month-long US tour as special guest of John Mellencamp.

Nonesuch released the first-ever vinyl edition of Emmylou Harris and the Nash Ramblers' Grammy Award–winning 1992 album, At the Ryman, in May and released a five-LP box set of Harris’s first five studio albums, Queen of the Silver Dollar, for Record Store Day in April.

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Lake Street Dive began its extensive US summer tour earlier this week and continues its months-long road trip with shows at Saturn in Birmingham tonight and Candler Park in Atlanta on Saturday, followed by a performance at Primal Brewery in Huntersville, North Carolina, on Sunday afternoon. The Charleston City Paper calls the band’s live show "serious fun."

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Pat Metheny concludes his European tour with drummer Antonio Sánchez, pianist Gwilym Simcock, and bassist Linda Oh this weekend, performing at KD V. Lisinskog in Zagreb, Croatia, tonight; Gallus Hall of Crankarjev Dom in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on Saturday; and Forum Karlin in Prague on Sunday. The quartet heads to the US next weekend for a six-city run, including dates in Boston, New York City, and DC.

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Conor Oberst, with The Felice Brothers as his backing band, continues his US Salutations tour, performing two shows in Virginia this weekend: at Brown’s Island in Richmond tonight and NorVA in Norfolk on Saturday. The band closes out the weekend with a show at the Blue Eyed Muse in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Sunday.

The Sunday Express gives Oberst’s new album five stars, exclaiming:, “The results are quite simply sublime. This is songwriting of the very highest quality, Oberst’s lyrics rarely less than astonishing. Wonderful.”

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Saxophonist Joshua Redman’s trio, featuring Reuben Rogers on bass and Gregory Hutchinson on drums, is currently touring Europe, with three performances in Germany this weekend. The trio plays two sets at Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, as part of Elbjazz Festival, tonight and Saturday, followed by a show at Schinkel-Kirche in Neuhardenberg on Sunday.

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The Staves began a nine-city tour across the UK and Ireland earlier this week, and continue with two shows in Ireland this week: at Róisín Dubh in Galway tonight and Dolan’s in Limerick on Saturday. DIY Magazine praises the trio’s “power to reach out and entrance with their tumbling harmonies, leaving the crowd hanging on every word … There’s no showy stagecraft on show, yet the whole room is smitten.”

The trio spoke with BBC Radio 6 Music’s Radcliffe & Maconie about their return to the UK and their time living in the States; you can listen here.