Laurie Anderson's 2015 film Heart of a Dog receive its Criterion Collection release on Blu-Ray and DVD today. Features on the special-edition release include a high-definition digital master, a new conversation between Anderson and coproducer Jake Perlin, and footage of her 2016 Concert for Dogs, plus an essay by film critic Glenn Kenny. The soundtrack, which contains the full audio recording of the film, including all music and spoken text, is out on Nonesuch.

Rhiannon Giddens will tour Europe next spring. The concerts begin at Ducs des Lombards Jazz Club in Paris on March 23, followed by stops in Amsterdam, Brussels, Hamburg, and Cologne. She then heads to the UK for shows in London, Cambridge, and Edinburgh, and to Ireland for a culminating concert at Whelans in Dublin on April 3. Tickets go on sale this Friday, December 9.

The Magnetic Fields bring 50 Song Memoir to Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) … John Adams conducts LSO in El Niño at Barbican … Devendra Banhart is in Mexico … Teresa Cristina performs in Rio de Janeiro … Jeremy Denk joins Pacific Symphony for Brahms in California ... Emmylou Harris leads benefit concert in DC … Kronos Quartet is in Berkeley … Teitur tours Argentina … Chris Thile hosts A Prairie Home Companion in NYC … Rokia Traoré tours France ... and more ...

John Adams will conduct the London Symphony Orchestra in several performances in London and France over the coming week, starting with his Nativity Oratorio, El Niño, at the Barbican in London this Sunday, December 4, and his Scheherazade.2 with violinist Leila Josefowicz there next Thursday. They then head to France to perform Scheherazade.2 at the Opéra de Dijon and the Philharmonie de Paris, and Adams and the LSO perform El Niño, at the Philharmonie.

Devendra Banhart, who has announced several US tour dates for early 2017, now announces several shows in Europe and the UK to follow. The tour begins at Auditorium di Milano on April 3, followed by concerts in Munich, Berlin, Brussels, Rotterdam, and Paris, culminating at Hackney Empire in London on April 12. Tickets for the London show go on sale November 30; the remaining shows go on sale Friday, December 2.

Devendra Banhart has added 21 additional shows to follow his recently announced tour of the US West in early 2017. The new leg of begins in New Mexico on February 12 and continues into mid-March, with stops in Austin, Atlanta, Miami, Minneapolis, Chicago, Cambridge, Philadelphia, DC, and more, culminating at Webster Hall in NYC on March 16. Tickets for the newly announced shows go on sale this Friday, December 2.

Happy Cyber Monday! The savings continue as the Nonesuch Store anniversary sale, which began last week, rolls into Cyber Monday and beyond, with all currently available CDs, LPs, DVDs, MP3s, FLAC, and merchandise here at nonesuch.com (pre-orders excluded) 15% off the everyday low prices listed on the site; the sale discount will be show at checkout.

Today is the day after Thanksgiving in the US and that means, among other things, Record Store Day Black Friday, offering unique recordings from some of your favorite artists, including a new, limited-edition, black 7" vinyl by Conor Oberst, available at independent record shops. The vinyl features a new full-band recording of "Tachycardia," a song on Oberst's new solo album, Ruminations, paired with "Afterthought," an unreleased track from the Ruminations recording sessions. To pick up a copy while supplies last, head to a record store near you.

In December 2007, the Nonesuch Store opened at nonesuch.com with just a couple of new releases. Now, nine years later, the store has grown to include hundreds of new and classic Nonesuch albums. To celebrate this anniversary, everything now on the site that's out now—CDs, LPs, DVDs, MP3s, FLAC, and merchandise; pre-orders excluded—is 15% off our everyday low prices. That's 15% off the already discounted prices listed on the site on hundreds of CDs, dozens of recordings on vinyl, some unforgettable DVDs, and hundreds of MP3s—including classic recordings no longer in print—and, for digital audiophiles, scores of FLAC lossless and HD FLAC files too; plus our new line of Nonesuch merchandise. The total savings will be reflected at checkout.

Conor Oberst stopped by WFUV in NYC last month to perform three songs from his new album, Ruminations—"A Little Uncanny," "Mamah Borthwick (A Sketch)," and "Gossamer Thin"—and talk with host Carmel Holt for an FUV Live session. You can watch the performances here and hear the interview on the air tonight on 90.7 FM. Oberst takes his US tour to the one and only Carnegie Hall in NYC this Wednesday night, followed by two nights of sold-out shows both in Chicago and LA.

The Magnetic Fields premiere 50 Song Memoir at MASS MoCA … John Adams is performed by Saint Louis Symphony, Baltimore Symphony … Rhiannon Giddens, Dirk Powell tour California … Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell's Americana Music Awards performance airs on PBS … Kronos Quartet plays Bologna Jazz Fest … Lake Street Dive concludes tour of UK, Ireland … Chris Thile hosts A Prairie Home Companion with The Staves as guests … and more …

Dutch composer Louis Andriessen has been awarded The Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music at the New York Philharmonic. The honor recognizes a composer for extraordinary artistic endeavor in the field of new music, and is one of the world's largest new-music prizes, consisting of $200,000 and a commission to compose a work for the New York Philharmonic. The Philharmonic will give the World Premiere of a new orchestral work by Andriessen in the 2018–19 season. Nonesuch Records President Robert Hurwitz offers an appreciation here.