Gaby Moreno and Davíd Garza came together to record a timely-as-ever bilingual take on Paul Simon's "American Tune" for the Hootenanny One Mic Series in Los Angeles. The performance, featuring Moreno's Spanish translation of the lyrics, was filmed for the series' inaugural video, which you can watch here. Moreno and Van Dyke Parks released a recording of David Rudder's song "The Immigrants" in July to support CARECEN and its efforts to empower immigrants.

Mountain Man performs from Magic Ship in Massachusetts … Sam Amidon, David Byrne continue UK tours … Rhiannon Giddens is in Ireland … Emmylou Harris brings Lantern Tour to US Northeast … Gabriel Kahane joins Andrew Bird, NSO at Kennedy Center … Lake Street Dive tours US Midwest … Mandy Patinkin concludes NYC residency … Robert Plant plays London, Dublin … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from Nebraska … Rokia Traoré begins NYU artist residency … 

Out today, Wilco (the album) (the picture disc) melds the 2009 album's acclaimed music with the whimsy of the original photography, on one vinyl disc. Wilco's seventh studio album "is all about a great band playing great original music on an album filled with great songs," says NPR. The Independent gave five stars to the "magnificent" album.

Fleet Foxes have released "Icicle Tusk," a song from the The Fleet Foxes EP in First Collection 2006–2009, their forthcoming special limited-edition collection marking the tenth anniversary of their debut album, due November 9. The song, originally on the band's rare self-titled, self-released EP from April 2006, is included with pre-orders of the special collection and can be heard here.

Mountain Man, now touring the US, is on NPR's World Cafe. The trio talks with host Talia Schlanger about its new album, Magic Ship, and performs four songs from it. "Something truly magical happens when Amelia Meath, Molly Erin Sarlé, and Alexandra Sauser-Monnig are in the same room, huddled around the same mic, breathing and harmonizing together," says Schlanger. "I feel like there was a big collective exclamation of glee when we found out that Mountain Man was making a new album called Magic Ship." Hear the session here.

Punch Brothers are on Spotify's Under Cover podcast, discussing the creative process of taking on someone else's song and making it their own, as they did with Tame Impala's "Let It Happen" for Spotify Singles. You can hear the Under Cover conversation and Punch Brothers' Spotify Singles take on "Let It Happen" and their own song "Jumbo" here.

Olivia Chaney made her debut as a guest on Later... with Jools Holland last night, performing "Roman Holiday" from her new album, Shelter, live on BBC Two last night. Watch it again here. And tune in to BBC Two again this Saturday night for the full, one-hour episode of Later for another performance from the album.

Mountain Man launches its first tour in six years in Washington, DC, tonight. The tour, featuring music from the trio's first album in eight years, Magic Ship, continues in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Cambridge, Ann Arbor, Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha, Denver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, culminating with two nights in Saxaphaw, North Carolina.

David Byrne, who has begun his American Utopia arena tour of the UK and Ireland, was a guest on BBC Newsnight on Friday. He spoke with Kirsty Wark about the American Utopia album and tour, the forthcoming release of the complete True Stories soundtrack, and his collaborations with St. Vincent and Fatboy Slim. He also strongly encourages US voters to turn out for the November 6 midterm elections!

Gabriel Kahane was a guest on Live From Here with Chris Thile on Saturday. You can watch him perform songs from his new album, Book of Travelers—"November," "Baltimore," and "Little Love," for which he was joined by Thile—here. "I love him," says Thile; "now so do you." Kahane joins Andrew Bird and the NSO at the Kennedy Center in DC this weekend and resumes his Book of Travelers tour in Austin next week.

Congratulations to k.d. lang, who has been awarded the Alberta Order of Excellence, the highest honor the Province of Alberta can bestow on a citizen. The Canadian singer-songwriter, who was born in Edmonton and spent her childhood in Consort, Alberta, was given the medal in a ceremony at Government House in Edmonton. In 1996, lang received Canada's highest civilian honor, the Order of Canada.

Gabriel Kahane joins Chris Thile on Live From Here … Sam Amidon begins UK tour in Birmingham … Laurie Anderson brings The Language of the Future to Lithuania … Timo Andres plays New Sounds Live in NYC … David Byrne launches American Utopia UK tour in Leeds … Tigran Hamasyan is in California … James Farm concludes European tour in Germany … Kronos Quartet premieres new program at Stanford … Natalie Merchant headlines Hudson Valley Votes benefit … Mandy Patinkin continues Diaries 2018 NYC residency … and more …