Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway's new album, City of Gold, is out now. They've also released a new lyric video for album track “Yosemite,” featuring Dave Matthews, which you can watch here. “Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway strike gold on their transportive new album,” exclaims Folk Alley. “Every song on City of Gold is a little gem, every facet sparkling with exquisite instrumentation, stunning songwriting, and heartfelt singing … City of Gold is clearly one of the best albums of the year.” The Bluegrass Situation, which named Tuttle its Artist of the Month, declares: "Turns out it’s been Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway at the end of the rainbow this whole time!”

Hurray for the Riff Raff and Vagabon perform at Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, streaming on pitchfork.com. Sam Amidon is in Western MA. Julia Bullock sings Berlioz with Grand Teton Music Festival orchestra and conductor Christian Reif. Jeremy Denk performs Brahms and Beethoven with Brevard Music Center Orchestra and conductor Keith Lockhart. Brad Mehldau Trio close out European tour at Ravello Festival. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in Worcester and at Caramoor in upstate NY. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway celebrate their new album, City of Gold, in California and Oregon.

David Byrne & Fatboy Slim’s acclaimed 2010 album Here Lies Love gets its first vinyl release on August 11 to coincide with the 2023 Broadway production, which opens tonight. This double-disc song cycle about the rise and fall of the Philippines’ notorious Imelda Marcos and the People Power Revolution was conceived by David Byrne; composed by Byrne and Fatboy Slim; and performed by a dream cast drawn from the worlds of indie rock, alt country, R&B, and pop, including Florence Welch, Cyndi Lauper, Steve Earle, Sharon Jones, Natalie Merchant, Tori Amos, Kate Pierson, St. Vincent, My Brightest Diamond, Nellie McKay, Martha Wainwright, Róisín Murphy, Santigold, and Byrne himself. “Ingenious,” said the New York Times. “Insidiously infective songs.”

Vagabon, aka Lætitia Tamko, has released “Do Your Worst,” a new song from her upcoming album, Sorry I Haven’t Called, due September 15 on Nonesuch Records, and a video for it directed by Angela Ricciardi. The song, produced by Tamko, Rostam, and Teo Halm (SZA, Rosalía, FKA Twigs), combines dance-floor euphoria, breakneck-paced jungle beats, and a DJ’s sense of pacing through Vagabon’s signature storytelling. You can watch it here.

The Magnetic Fields have announced a fifteen-concert European tour this November. The shows, featuring songs from throughout the band's career, start at Sala Apolo in Barcelona on November 4, followed by dates throughout Spain, France, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Türkiye, Greece, and Austria. They will tour the US with songs from 69 Love Songs next year in celebration of the album's 25th anniversary. The Magnetic Fields' 2004 Nonesuch debut album, i, was released on vinyl for the first time in a limited-edition, gold-colored LP this past spring.

Congratulations to Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, who have been nominated for seven IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards! Tuttle and the band are up for Entertainer of the Year and Instrumental Group of the Year; Album of the Year for their debut album, Crooked Tree (which won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album); and Song of the Year for that album’s title track. Tuttle is up for Female Vocalist of the Year (which she won last year) and Guitar Player of the Year (which she won in 2017 and 2018; Punch Brothers' Chris Eldridge is also a nominee this year), and Bronwyn Keith-Hynes for Fiddle Player of the Year (which she won last year and in 2021). They are due to perform at IBMA World of Bluegrass in Raleigh on September 30. Their second album, City of Gold, is out this Friday.

Portuguese fado singer Carminho's new, self-produced album, Portuguesa, released to critical acclaim earlier this year, is due for release in the US on CD and vinyl August 18, ahead of a fall North American tour. The sixth album of Carminho’s career, Portuguesa features fourteen compositions, including several of her own songs as well as those of other writers, including traditional fado songs, through which she explores various combinations within the canons, reimagining the form.

Rhiannon Giddens is a host of the new PBS conversation series Arts Talk, which premieres today, with all episodes available to stream now on PBS.org and the PBS app. Giddens welcomes singer, songwriter, and producer Elvis Costello and actor and singer Brian Stokes Mitchell as her guests on the show to discuss their careers and share personal memories. You can watch them here. Guests on other episodes are Seal, Min Jin Lee, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Jimmy Kimmel, and Twyla Tharp in interviews led by Misty Copeland, Henry Winkler, and Ann Curry.

Kronos Quartet’s acclaimed 1995 album Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass gets its first-ever vinyl release on November 3, available to pre-order now, to coincide with Kronos Quartet: Five Decades, a year-long celebration of the quartet’s 50th anniversary. The two-LP set, produced by the composer, Judith Sherman, and Kurt Munkacsi, features violinists David Harrington and John Sherba, violist Hank Dutt, and cellist Joan Jeanrenaud performing quartets No. 2 (Company) (1983), No. 3 (Mishima) (1985), No. 4 (Buczak) (1990), and No. 5 (1991), the first piece Glass wrote for Kronos. “It contains some of Glass's best music since Koyaanisqatsi,” said the New York Times. “His ear for sumptuous string sonorities is undeniable.” The Washington Post called it “an ideal combination of composer and performers.”

Pianist Jeremy Denk is on Speaking Soundly, a podcast in which host and MET Opera Principal Trumpet David Krauss talks with fellow performers about their creative process and lives as artists, to discuss his acclaimed memoir, Every Good Boy Does Fine, share lessons he learned from numerous piano teachers over the years, and more. You can hear their conversation here.

David Byrne and Here Lies Love Broadway cast members Lea Salonga, Arielle Jacobs, and Jose Llana gave CBS Sunday Morning a behind-the-scenes look at the production, which has its official Opening Night at the Broadway Theatre in NYC this Thursday. They spoke with correspondent Elaine Quijano about the immersive disco pop musical based on the rise and fall of Imelda Marcos and the People Power Revolution of the Philippines, featuring music by Byrne and Fatboy Slim. You can watch the piece here.

The Magnetic Fields are at World Café Live in Philadelphia and the new DC venue The Atlantis. Joachim Cooder is at the Vancouver Folk Festival. Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi join Christian McBride at Pori Jazz Festival in Finland. Hurray for the Riff Raff tours the Midwest, in Madison, Kalamazoo, and Cleveland. Gabriel Kahane performs in Caroline Shaw's backyard in Portland. Brad Mehldau Trio is in France for Jazz à Juan. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway are in Idaho and at Under the Big Sky in Montana.