David Byrne, who begins the sold-out UK leg of his American Utopia World Tour on Thursday, has announced that he will bring the tour back to the UK and to Ireland for nine shows this autumn, including concerts at the O2 Arena in London, Manchester Arena, Hydro in Glasgow, 3Arena in Dublin, and more. He has also announced that he will take the tour to Australia and New Zealand in November. Additionally, Byrne has added a second performance at Brooklyn's Kings Theatre, on September 16, after the first sold out, and a night at Bass Hall in Austin in October.

Olivia Chaney has announced a three-week tour of the US and Canada, starting in Decatur, Georgia, on July 24. The tour, featuring music from her new album, Shelter, includes headline shows in DC, Cambridge, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Burlington, Toronto, Chicago, Minneapolis, Portland, and San Francisco, plus sets as special guest of Patty Griffin on Long Island and Bruce Hornsby in Washington. Chaney gave an album release concert in NYC on Sunday and will do so in London at Hoxton Hall on June 19.

Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters have returned to North America for a three-week tour celebrating his new album, Carry Fire. The tour begins in Atlanta tonight and continues through the end of the month, with shows in New York, Toronto, Chicago, Berkeley, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, and more.

Olivia Chaney plays Shelter release show in NYC … Sam Amidon performs at Unamplifire Festival in London … Devendra Banhart makes his Chinese debut … Thomas Bartlett and Nico Muhly perform Peter Pears at LSO St. Luke's ... David Byrne takes American Utopia to Midwest … Rhiannon Giddens is in Virginia, Vermont … Tigran Hamasyan performs in Switzerland … Robert Plant reignites Carry Fire tour in US Southeast … Rostam continues tour in Denmark, Netherlands … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from Ravinia …

k.d. lang has been named the recipient of the Americana Music Association's 2018 Americana Trailblazer Award. The honor will be presented at the Americana Honors & Awards, at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on September 12. She will also headline the Ryman on September 16 on the just-announced nine-city fall leg of her "Ingénue Redux" Tour, which includes shows in Florida, Alabama, and Texas.

Lake Street Dive joined WFUV at Brooklyn's Retrofret Vintage Guitars for a session of NPR's Night Owl. Following last month's release of their take on "Baby Don't Leave Me Alone with My Thoughts," from the new album Free Yourself Up, comes a new song from the session: "Musta Been Something." Watch it here.

Mandy Patinkin was a guest on The Late Late Show with James Corden last night, along with actress Lucy Liu and musician Shawn Mendes, who is a special guest / co-host on the show all week. Patinkin gave Mendes some love advice based on his own marriage of forty years and gave the audience of taste of what Mendes's song "Stitches" sounds like in Yiddish. You can watch both segments here. Patinkin release Diary: January 27, 2018, the first in a series of musical installments with Thomas Bartlett, in April.

Devendra Banhart begins a seven-city tour of Asia with a performance at the Guro Arts Valley Theatre in Seoul tonight. The tour, a series of duo performances with his longtime collaborator Noah Georgeson, continues with concerts in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, and Kyoto. 

David Byrne brings American Utopia to Chicago for three nights … Sam Amidon performs in the UK, Ireland … Tigran Hamasyan is in the UK … Lake Street Dive takes Free Yourself Up tour out West … Rostam plays All Points East in London … and more …

Rostam releases Half-Light Remixes: EP 1—reimagined versions of four tracks from his 2017 debut album, Half-Light—today. The EP features new takes on "Gwan" from Tourist, "Warning Intruders" from Jim-E Stack, "Half-Light" from Instupendo, and "Bike Dream" from Matsor Projects. Rostam kicks off a tour of Europe and the UK with performances with festival sets at Primavera Sound in Barcelona today and All Points East in London on Saturday, followed by shows in France, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, and a return to the UK for two nights in London.

Lake Street Dive has shared a video of a live performance of "Hang On," from the new album Free Yourself Up. The video was filmed by Alex Chaloff at Goosehead Palace Studios in Nashville, where the band recorded Free Yourself Up. You can watch it here.

Joshua Redman is joined by drummer Brian Blade, bassist Scott Colley, and cornetist Ron Miles for Still Dreaming, an album inspired by his father Dewey Redman's band Old and New Dreams, out now. That band had an all-star lineup of Ornette Coleman collaborators: Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Ed Blackwell. "Consistently riveting," says the Washington Post. "It all makes for a jazz adventure that begs for repeated listening," says the Lexington Herald-Leader. "The more you tune in, the more you hear the present day curators of a sublime jazz legacy forging its music into something unmistakably new."