The Arcs—Dan Auerbach, Leon Michels, Richard Swift, Homer Steinweiss, and Nick Movshon—are the subject of a short introductory video directed by Nick Walker, who also directed the official music video for "Outta My Mind," off Yours, Dreamily, their debut album. "I think we just put The Arcs together as a means to have a platform to do this thing that we love to do," says Auerbach: "make music, make records, and be able to share it with people." Watch the video here. The band will perform on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Friday, September 25.

Sam Amidon performs at Kings Place in London before kicking off tour of Ireland ... Nashville Symphony performs John Adams's On the Transmigration of Souls ... Laurie Anderson's Heart of a Dog receives Canadian premiere at Toronto International Film Festival ... Tyondai Braxton has solo shows in Oberlin, Portland ... Jeremy Denk plays Rhapsody in Blue with Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra ... Rhiannon Giddens heads home to Greensboro for National Folk Festival ... Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell tour Virginia, Pennsylvania ... Audra McDonald opens Minnesota Orchestra season ... Robert Plant headlines Lockn' Music Fest ... Punch Brothers are at Ellnora Guitar Fest ... Joshua Redman starts Europe tour in Germany, Spain ... and more ...

Joshua Redman kicks off a European tour at Musikfest Bremen in Germany this Saturday, joining the Metropole Orkest, Ibrahim Maalouf, and Lalah Hathaway on stage. He then tackles the piano-less trio format with Ole Morten Vågan on bass and Jorge Rossy on drums September 13–19 in Spain, Hungary, the Netherlands, and Norway. In November, Redman returns to Europe to perform with the collaborative band James Farm. Before and after the James Farm tour, Redman resumes his North American tour with The Bad Plus in October and December. 

The Arcs have unveiled the video for "Outta My Mind," off Yours, Dreamily, their recently released debut album. The video premiered on The Huffington Post, which says: "A dreamy gift of garage blues wrapped in fuzzy, soulful guitar, the album is a refreshing shift from [Dan] Auerbach that you'll want to keep on repeat all weekend long." Watch the video here. Yours, Dreamily, is WFUV's New Dig and Album of the Week from The Current, which says "this album is chock full of memorable, hooky jams ... [Auerbach] can't help but write songs that get stuck in your brain."

The Arcs have confirmed eight European tour dates in November as part of their first tour in support of Yours, Dreamily, their debut album. They will be joined on stage by Mariachi Flor de Toloache. The European leg comprises concerts in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, UK, Holland, France, and Italy.  Tickets go on sale on Friday, September 11. The Arcs make their live concert debut via NPR Music’s First Listen Live series in NYC this Wednesday and perform at Bowery Ballroom in NYC later this month.

Rhiannon Giddens and Ry Cooder will be among the performers at the Americana Honors & Awards show at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on September 16. Cooder is also among the presenters, as are Rodney Crowell and Punch Brothers' Noam Pikelny. The show will broadcast live on SiriusXM's Outlaw Country and will stream live via NPR Music. PBS will air highlights from the show November 21 on Austin City Limits. Giddens, Punch Brothers, and Carolina Chocolate Drops' Hubby Jenkins are all nominees. Giddens will also take part in NPR Music's "Songs We Love: Americana Edition" event with critic Ann Powers earlier September 16.

The Arcs' debut album is out now. "Yours, Dreamily, takes what [Dan] Auerbach does at his best, in and out of the Keys—confessional, texturally enriched blues propelled with garage-rock force—and adds a riveting jump in eccentricity," writes Rolling Stone. "Right from the drop, Yours, Dreamily, ignites like a cigarette flicked on a stream of gasoline," raves NPR. It's "one of Auerbach's most ambitious and fully realized albums." Mojo says: "Auerbach delivers some of his hottest-ever guitar. This one, for sure, is a keeper." NME concludes: "Dan Auerbach never fails to impress." You can hear him on NPR's All Things Considered here.

Pat Metheny is Artist-in-Residence at the free Detroit Jazz Festival this Labor Day weekend ... Sam Amidon performs at End of the Road Festival ... Tyondai Braxton goes solo in Philadelphia ... Ken Burns's The Civil War airs anew on PBS ... Olivia Chaney plays UK's Moseley Folk Festival ... Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell help celebrate St. Augustine, Florida's 450th anniversary... Punch Brothers head to Pacific Northwest ... and more ...

To mark the 25th anniversary of the debut of Ken Burns's acclaimed documentary The Civil War, PBS will rebroadcast the series over five consecutive nights starting Labor Day Monday, September 7. This is the first presentation of a newly restored, high-definition version of the landmark documentary. This is also the first time the film will be seen with the same fidelity and framing as the negative that Burns and his co-cinematographers Allen Moore and Buddy Squires shot more than 25 years ago. The film's soundtrack, released on Nonesuch Records in 1990, won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album.

The Arcs, whose debut album, Yours, Dreamily, is out this coming Friday, September 4, recently stopped by KROQ's Red Bull Sound Space in Los Angeles, where they performed "My Mind," a non-album track that's the b-side to the 7-inch vinyl single "Outta My Mind." You can watch the live performance here and get a copy of the vinyl in the Nonesuch Store.

Congratulations to Kronos Quartet and Nico Muhly, who have been named winners of ECHO Klassik 2015 awards. Kronos Quartet is the winner of the Classics Without Borders award for its 40th anniversary release A Thousand Thoughts, and Nico Muhly's opera Two Boys, recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera, has been named Opera Recording of the Year for 20th/21st century music. The ECHO Klassik awards are conferred by the Deutsche Phono-Akademie (German Recording Academy), akin to the Grammy Awards in the United States. This year's awards ceremony will take place in Berlin on October 18 and will be televised on ZDF in Germany.

Punch Brothers take their North American tour south, performing in Mississippi and Oklahoma, headlining Fayetteville Roots Fest in Arkansas ... Tyondai Braxton celebrates Terry Riley's 80th in Germany ... David Byrne closes out Meltdown in London ... Jeremy Denk joins San Francisco Symphony for BBC Proms ... Rhiannon Giddens plays Aarhus Fest in Denmark ... Randy Newman is in Washington state ... Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club takes "Adios" tour to Virginia and Pennsylvania ... IFC Center launches Wim Wenders retrospective ... and more ...