Here is a quick look at Kronos Quartet's new album, Folk Songs, with Sam Amidon, Olivia Chaney, Rhiannon Giddens, and Natalie Merchant.

Offa Rex, a new project featuring English singer/multi-instrumentalist Olivia Chaney and The Decemberists, performs "Blackleg Miner," from the group's 2017 debut album, The Queen of Hearts. Video directed by Alex Chaloff.

k.d. lang performs "Constant Craving" on MTV Unplugged. The performance is featured on the 2017 album Ingénue: 25th Anniversary Edition, a two-disc set that includes remastered versions of the original ten tracks from the celebrated album plus previously unreleased performances from her 1993 MTV Unplugged episode.

Sam Amidon's lyric video for "Blackbird," from his 2017 album The Following Mountain. "The Following Mountain is a walk through the thickets of the imagination," Amidon says, “a personal mythology of sounds and visions and characters. It is my first album of original music, but is still linked to the Appalachian music I love, as well as improvisation, beats, Don Cherry, Vermont, London." Video created by Pavel Suslov from drawings by Sam Amidon.

"Here's a video dedicated to a great world leader," Randy Newman says of this video. "I hope all of you like it. I know he will." The song is on Newman's 2017 album Dark Matter, his first album of new material in nine years.

Fleet Foxes give a behind-the-scenes look at rehearsals for their 2017 Crack-Up world tour. Video by Sean Pecknold.

The official music video for Fleet Foxes' "Fool's Errand" from the 2017 album Crack-Up. Video directed by Sean Pecknold with art direction by Adi Goodrich and produced by Society.

Offa Rex, a new project featuring English singer/multi-instrumentalist Olivia Chaney and The Decemberists, performs "The Queen of Hearts," the title track to the group's 2017 debut album, The Queen of Hearts. Video directed by Alex Chaloff.

Here is Rostam's "Gwan," from his 2017 debut album, Half-Light.

Randy Newman and longtime producer and friend Lenny Waronker chat about Lonely at the Top: Studio Albums, 1968–77, the  vinyl box set of Randy's first five studio albums, released at independent record stores for Record Store Day 2017.