The Black Keys headline the 2012 Coachella festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, this weekend and next. The band plays the Coachella stage tonight and again next Friday, while Radiohead and Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg headline Saturdays and Sundays, respectively. All of this weekend's musical magic will be streaming live via Coachella's YouTube channel. Tune in at 9:45 PM PT to see The Black Keys set live.

The Huffington Post spoke with Dan Auerbach about the band's going from being "one of the most talked about bands" at last year's Coachella to "returning as the toast of the town" this year. Read what Auerbach has to say at huffingtonpost.com.

The Black Keys recently met up with Anthony Bourdain for a segment on his Travel Channel show No Reservations. Catch a bit of their culinary adventure at travelchannel.com.

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Punch Brothers launch the second leg of their North American tour with a live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor at New York’s Town Hall on Saturday, also featuring fellow guests Renée Fleming, Aoife O'Donovan, and Heather Masse. Tune in on your local public radio station and online at priariehome.org. The band then heads down to Morgantown, West Virginia, to perform at West Virginia University’s Creative Arts Center for future broadcast on NPR's Mountain Stage; among the other performers are Joan Osborne and Leftover Salmon.

Also in New York City this weekend, How To Grow a Band, an independent documentary by filmmaker Mark Meatto that chronicles the debut of the four-movement piece The Blind Leaving the Blind, featured on the Punch Brothers' 2008 Nonesuch debut album, Punch, makes its own theatrical debut at New York's Village East Cinema tonight. Punch Brothers Gabe Witcher, Chris Eldridge, and Paul Kowert join the filmmakers for a special Q&A following tonight's 8 PM screening. How to Grow a Band is a Critics' Pick in New York magazine, which says: "Meatto’s doc is a look at what it takes—personally, professionally—to do something groundbreaking artistically. It also doesn’t skimp on the music, which is both challenging and heavenly."

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Performances of the new production of John Adams's Nixon in China continue at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. The Financial Times gives the production four stars. Musical director Alexander Briger leads the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, the Châtelet choir, and a cast featuring baritone Franco Pompini as President Richard Nixon. Performances run through Wednesday.

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Billy Bragg performs at the Wembley Arena in London tonight as special guest of Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls. Following the April 21 Record Store Day release of Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions, Bragg will launch a tour of Europe and North America in celebration of Woody Guthrie's 100th birthday.

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Carolina Chocolate Drops continue their North American tour, heading to band member Dom Flemons’ home state of Arizona to play at the McDowell Mountain Music Festival in Phoenix at noon on Sunday.

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Shawn Colvin has two shows in Maine this weekend, playing at the Kents Hill School in Kents Hill tonight and at the Stone Mountain Arts Center in Brownfield on Saturday.

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Dr. John concludes his three-week Insides Out residency at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) this weekend with Funky But It’s Nu Awlins: three nights of New Orleans funk featuring Irma Thomas, Ivan Neville, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and more. Following last night’s opening show, the festivities continue at BAM’s Howard Gilman Opera House with shows tonight and Saturday.

The Insides Out residency began two weeks ago with a tribute to Louis Armstrong, where Dr. John was joined by Kermit Ruffins, Rickie Lee Jones, and Arturo Sandoval. The following week brought the premiere performances of songs from his new album, Locked Down, for which Dr. John was joined onstage by the album’s producer, Dan Auerbach.

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Cheikh Lô performs at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor tonight and at the University of North Carolina’s Memorial Hall in Chapel Hill on Sunday, as part of the North American tour he launched earlier this week. The tour marks the first opportunity for North American audiences to hear songs from Lô latest album, Jamm, released in July 2011.

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Joshua Redman and Brad Mehldau continue their North American duo tour, performing at the Symphony Center in Chicago tonight. The label mates then head up to Toronto to play at the Royal Conservatory’s Koemer Concert Hall on Saturday. The Chicago Tribune says that, "considering their range of aesthetic interests, there's no predicting where the music will take them."

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Allen Toussaint plays a solo show at the Onondaga Community College’s Storer Auditorium in Syracuse, New York, tonight.

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Dawn Upshaw joins the Australian Chamber Orchestra for two performances this weekend: at Norton Center’s Newlin Hall in Danville, Kentucky, tonight, and Symphony Hall in Chicago on Sunday. The program features Maria Schneider’s newest composition, Winter Morning Walks, a blend of classical and jazz elements written for Upshaw.

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As noted earlier today in the Nonesuch Journal, Sara Watkins launches her US tour with two sets at the Bluebonnets & Bluegrass festival at Old Tyme Wonderland in College Station, Texas, Saturday and Sunday. The tour celebrates the release of Watkins forthcoming second solo album, Sun Midnight Sun, which is due out May 8.