Following a two-night set "stomping through songs from his fine solo debut, Keep It Hid" (New York Times) in Austin at Austin City Limits and an official ACL Aftershow, Dan Auerbach is set to begin a three-week North American tour with his band The Fast Five, beginning November 5 in Columbus, Ohio. Joining for the length of the tour are Justin Townes Earle and Jessica Lea Mayfield.

John Adams's Doctor Atomic Symphony "comes across as a tight, visceral ride that you won't want to miss," says New Music Box of the Nonesuch recording, and "the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and conductor David Robertson light it on fire ... [I]t's as charmed a production as you could wish for." A new exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art features a sculpture inspired by the opera Doctor Atomic.

Wilco's North American tour winds its way north after several stops in the South, including Friday night's show at the Palladium in Dallas, Texas. "Wilco (the album) has garnered considerable critical acclaim for bridging the extremes of this wonderfully ambitious group," says the Star-Telegram. "As Friday’s excellent performance demonstrated, letting in a little light—and calmness—cements Wilco’s standing as one of America’s finest rock bands."

Shawn Colvin begins a four-night residency at Yoshi's in San Francisco tonight. Part of a larger tour across the United States, this week's sets take on added meaning as they mark a return to the site where Colvin's recent Nonesuch release, Live, was recorded back in July 2008, featuring 15 tracks from throughout her career.

Carolina Chocolate Drops come home to NC ... Black Keys drummer Pat Carney's band Drummer does NYC ... Shawn Colvin closes three-night stint in San Diego ... Christina Courtin's US tour moves Midwest ... Phillip Glass solos in PA benefit ... Kronos Quartet plays for a hometown crowd in San Fran ... Youssou N'Dour doc opens in DC ... Punch Brothers play Ohio and PA ... Sara Watkins makes it three for three in the Midwest ... Wilco's on for sold-out sets in Dallas and Memphis ... and more ...

John Adams's City Noir was given its world premiere last night in the Opening Night performance of the Los Angeles Philharmonic season and the Inaugural Gala of new music director Gustavo Dudamel. It "was an exceptional and exciting concert by any standard," says the New York Times's Anthony Tommasini. "Moment to moment the music [of City Noir] is riveting." The Los Angeles Times's Mark Swed says: "I can’t imagine another orchestra that could sell such a piece so effectively on the first performance."

John Adams's City Noir receives its world premiere tonight in the Opening Night Concert of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Inaugural Gala for its new music director, Gustavo Dudamel, at Walt Disney Concert Hall. "I want to make my music an opportunity to extend myself, and my language," Adams tells the Los Angeles Times. The piece will be performed again this fall for the Philharmonic's Adams-curated West Coast, Left Coast festival.

Wilco is still in the midst of its fall tour through the United States, with a breach of the 49th Parallel for two shows in Toronto next week. Come February 2010, the tables will turn for a TransCanada tour, from British Columbia to Nova Scotia, with a half dozen stops planned for south of the border. The Canadian leg beings with a free concert for the "Live City" Vancouver celebration of the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Christina Courtin begins a three-week tour of the United States with Brooklyn trio Elizabeth & the Catapult in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, tomorrow night. Christina spoke with Glide magazine about self-titled Nonesuch debut album. "The truth is that Courtin’s voice and words often steal the show on her debut album," says Glide, featuring "ten songs that are able to sustain a magical level of wonder for the listener."

Punch Brothers' fall tour is headed to the University of Michigan's Power Center in Ann Arbor tonight. Though the band's 2008 Nonesuch debut, Punch, also marks the band's first as Punch Brothers, "they’ve already made their mark on the newgrass/new-acoustic scene," says AnnArbor.com in an interview with fiddler Gabe Witcher, "as they’ve created their own, unique variation on that ambitious hybrid of bluegrass, jazz and classical-music elements."

Joshua Redman's latest Nonesuch release, Compass, is out now. The recording features both trio and double trio formats, creating tracks that are "harmonically rich, rhythmically vibrant and bristling with creative complexity," says All About Jazz. "Redman's newly discovered easy-going effortlessness makes this the crowning achievement of his career."

Brad Mehldau begins the jazz series he's programmed at London's Wigmore Hall in a duo concert with Joshua Redman next week. NPR's jazz blog A Blog Supreme recently listed the pianist's recordings as the best introduction to the jazz of today, citing his 2002 Jon Brion–produced Largo as chief among them. "This album was a big one for me," said one panelist. "It fuses masterful jazz improvisation with modern rock production."