The Black Keys kick off the extensive North American leg of their Turn Blue world tour in their home state of Ohio this weekend: at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus tonight and the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland on Saturday. The tour stays in the Midwest for a performance at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Sunday, and special guest Cage The Elephant offers opening sets along the way. The North American tour runs through December with dates at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre, Brooklyn’s Barclays Center and Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, among others.

Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney have just announced they will head to Australia in April 2015, following UK and European tours in February and March. Tickets for the Australian tour—which stops in seven cities across the country—go on sale on Thursday. For all of the world tour details and ticket links, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.

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Laurie Anderson performs An Evening with Laurie Anderson at Fønix Kino in Kristiansand, Norway, on Saturday, closing out the tenth annual Punkt Festival. The concert will be remixed live by Fennesz, and audience members can listen to the remix directly after the show. Anderson also holds A Meeting with Laurie Anderson seminar at the Hotel Norge this afternoon.

Anderson joins Kronos Quartet to perform her evening-length work Landfall at Sacrum Profanum Festival in Kraków on September 18 before bringing it over to the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) for a five-night run, September 23–27, as part of BAM’s extensive celebration of Nonesuch Records’ 50th anniversary, Nonesuch Records at BAM: Celebrating a Label Without Labels.

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Bombino rounds out the Northeast leg of his latest US tour with performances in three different states: a late-night set at The Sinclair in Cambridge, Massachusetts, tonight, as part of Boston Calling Music Festival’s Official After Parties; the Colonial Theatre in Bethlehem, New Hampshire, on Saturday; and the Brooklyn Bowl in New York City on Sunday. The tour, which features selections from his Dan Auerbach-produced album, Nomad, released on Nonesuch last year, continues in the Midwest in the week ahead.

“As an artist, your style is always evolving,” Bombino told the San Francisco Chronicle in advance of his recent Bay Area performance. “This is how you know that your art is alive. I love to bring in elements of reggae and also of American rock music.” Read more at sfgate.com.

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Shawn Colvin rejoins fellow singer-songwriter Steve Earle to kick off the September leg of their “Songs and Stories, Together Onstage” duo tour with a headline set at Bluestem Center for the Arts Amphitheatre in Moorhead, Minnesota, on Sunday, as part of the Roots on the Red festival. These two longtime friends and mutual admirers share music from their extensive catalogues as well as some of their favorite songs by other classic songwriters, sharing the stage for duets, storytelling, song swapping, and guitar playing. The tour continues in the Midwest in Missouri, Michigan, and Ohio in the week ahead.

Colvin recently spoke with Huffington Post’s HuffPost Live about having been diagnosed with clinical depression earlier in her career, how this has impacted her music over the years, and what family and friends can do to support their loved ones with depression. You can watch the interview at huffingtonpost.com.

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Jeremy Denk performs Bach’s Goldberg Variations in full at Cloître des Jacobins in Toulouse, France, tonight, as part of Piano aux Jacobins Festival. His recording of the piece was released on Nonesuch Records last fall to critical acclaim.

“Denk delivered a sparkling performance of the Goldberg Variations that received a well-deserved standing ovation,” writes The Republican of his recent performance of the piece at Tanglewood. You can read the full review at masslive.com.

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Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell's 2013 performance on Austin City Limits, featuring songs from their Grammy Award-winning album Old Yellow Moon and a guest appearance from Shawn Colvin, will receive an encore presentation this weekend on PBS stations across the United States.

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Robert Plant performs on The One Show on BBC One tonight. The five-song set includes “Turn It Up” and “Rainbow,” two songs from his new album, lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar, due out next week. Fans in the UK can catch the show tonight at 7 PM.

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Steve Reich’s Grammy-winning piece Different Trains—given its first recording over 20 years ago on Nonesuch Records by Kronos Quartet —receives its Singapore premiere in a performance by the London Sinfonietta at SOTA Concert Hall on Saturday, as part of the four-day Listen to the 20th Century portion of the Singapore International Festival of Arts.

Steve Reich and Musicians join The Philip Glass Ensemble to kick off the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)’s celebration of Nonesuch Records’ 50th anniversary, Nonesuch Records at BAM, in a three-night run at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House starting this Tuesday. These concerts, says the New York Times, will feature “two founding fathers of Minimalism, performing landmark works.”. Read the full article on the concert program at nytimes.com.