The Arcs recently stopped by The Village recording studios in LA, where they performed a live take of "Put a Flower in Your Pocket," off Yours, Dreamily, their forthcoming debut album. You can watch the performance here. This follows the recent unveiling of their performance of "Outta My Mind" from the same session. Both album tracks, as well as the track "Stay in My Corner," are available to download now with pre-orders of the new album.

The Arcs recently stopped by The Village recording studios in Los Angeles, where they performed a live take of "Outta My Mind," the first single off Yours, Dreamily, their forthcoming debut album. You can watch the performance here. The album track "Outta My Mind," which is available to download now with pre-orders of Yours, Dreamily, has garnered critical acclaim, with Vulture praising its "raw, bare-bones appeal," and Spin noting its "barrage of deliciously reverbed, strung-out riffs." The song is also featured on a 7-inch single with non-album track "My Mind."

The David Byrne–curated Meltdown festival gets under way at the Southbank Centre in London tonight, continuing through Sunday, August 30. Among Meltdown's many special events, Byrne and band celebrate African funk master William Onyeabor, he joins Young Jean Lee for the London debut of We’re Gonna Die, and Jonny Greenwood and LCO perform his score to There Will Be Blood at a screening of the film. BBC Radio 6 Music celebrates with a series of programs featuring Byrne, including his debut as a 6 Music presenter. "It’s a lot of fun when you do these kind of things you can introduce music," says Byrne, "and people will give you the benefit of the doubt and give it a listen which is a little bit of what’s it’s about."

Jeremy Denk performs Beethoven and Scriabin sonatas in the Northeast ... Rhiannon Giddens heads from Colorado to Canada ... Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell play Sweden's Way Out West fest ... Randy Newman is in Northern California ... Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club takes "Adios" tour to California ... Punch Brothers play Hot August Music Fest in Maryland ... and more ...

Nonesuch releases Natalie Merchant's Paradise Is There: The New Tigerlily Recordings on November 6, 2015. This collection of all-new recordings revisits Merchant's multi-platinum solo debut, Tigerlily. The new release is accompanied by a documentary DVD. The memoir-style film contains live performances, archival footage, and interviews with musicians, friends, and fans about the influence the songs of Tigerlily have had over the past 20 years. Paradise Is There is available to pre-order at iTunes and in the Nonesuch Store. Tour dates to support the release will be announced soon.

The Arcs, whose debut album, Yours, Dreamily, is due out September 4, have unveiled the video for a new track off the album, "Put a Flower in Your Pocket." The video was directed by "El Oms" (artist Omar Juarez)—who created the art for the Yours, Dreamily, album cover and vinyl 7-inch singles for the tracks "Stay in My Corner" and "Outta My Mind"—and premiered today via Noisey, which calls the track "dirty, bluesy soulful music with a reverbed, modern twist." Watch it here. The track premiered on Zane Lowe's show on Beats 1 earlier in the day.

Nonesuch Records releases Brad Mehldau's 10 Years Solo Live eight-LP vinyl box set October 16, 2015. The set is culled from live recordings made over a decade of the pianist's European solo concerts and is divided into four thematic subsets of four sides each: Dark/Light, The Concert, Intermezzo/Rückblick, and E Minor/E Major. It will be released digitally and on CD the following month. "It is not enough to say that the different audiences were important for the creation of this music. They were absolutely necessary; they were pivotal. Without those audiences, this music would not exist in the way it does." Vinyl pre-orders are available now in the Nonesuch Store with an instant download of the album track "Waltz for J. B.," which you can hear here.

Congratulations to Punch Brothers, nominated for two International Bluegrass Music Awards: Instrumental Group of the Year and Best Graphic Design for a Recorded Project for their new album, The Phosphorescent Blues. Results will be revealed at the IBMAs on October 1 in Raleigh, NC, broadcast live on SiriusXM's Bluegrass Junction. Earlier this year, Punch Brothers were nominated for Best Duo/Group of the Year in the Americana Honors & Awards, which will be held in Nashville on September 16.

Lianne La Havas's new album, Blood, is WFUV's New Dig. "Blood stretches La Havas’s scope as a songwriter, singer and guitarist, embracing neo-soul and jazz, while peppering the proceedings with dashes of R&B, reggae, and doo wop," says WFUV. "Her voice is wonderfully powerful and full; it rings clearly and soars majestically over her sunshine-dappled melodies." Blood was The Current's Album of the Week: "Blood showcases La Havas as a powerhouse vocalist, her voice lilting and floating like a butterfly over the music in one instant and slamming down with force and a gritty roughness the next moment ... It's an album you'll want to learn the lyrics of so you can sing along to it—loudly."

Following the recent release of Buena Vista Social Club’s Lost and Found—a new collection of previously unreleased tracks—Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club, a core band featuring several of the original musicians, kicks off a North American farewell "Adios" tour at the Ravinia Festival outside Chicago on Wednesday. The "Adios" tour includes extensive dates in the US and Canada, culminating in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on November 7.

Kronos Quartet performs Terry Riley, Laurie Anderson, more at Cabrillo Festival in Santa Cruz ... Louis Andriessen’s La Commedia is featured on BBC Radio 3’s Hear & Now ... The Arcs play first show in LA ... The Black Keys headline Outside Lands in San Francisco ... Tyondai Braxton, Deerhoof play Portsmouth, NH ... Donnacha Dennehy’s new chamber opera premieres at Edinburgh International Festival ... Rhiannon Giddens plays Mountain Stage ... James Farm is in Richmond ... Robert Plant tours Europe ... and more ...

More Roar, the EP from Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters first released on vinyl for Record Store Day in April, is now available digitally on iTunes and in the Nonesuch Store, where it is also available as a high-definition 96kHz/24bit FLAC download and on vinyl too. The EP features three tracks recorded live during the group’s 2014 world tour celebrating the release of the album lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar: "Turn It Up / Arbaden," "Poor Howard," and "Whole Lotta Love (Medley)." Plant and the band are currently touring Europe and return to North America in September.