Nonesuch Records releases a fifteenth anniversary edition of Carolina Chocolate Drops' 2010 Grammy Award-winning album Genuine Negro Jig on January 23, 2026. The reissue, featuring founding band members Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens, and Justin Robinson, includes the original Joe Henry–produced album and nine bonus tracks: seven previously unreleased tracks plus a 2025 remaster of “City of Refuge” and a 2025 mix of “Memphis Shakedown.” This release marks the album’s first time on vinyl since its original pressing in 2010. You can hear the bonus track "Here Rattler" now.

Composer Sarah Kirkland Snider’s fifth full-length LP, a new, all-orchestral album Forward Into Light, produced by Silas Brown and recorded by Metropolis Ensemble led by artistic director/conductor Andrew Cyr, is due February 27 on New Amsterdam / Nonesuch Records. It features Forward Into Light, inspired by the American women’s suffrage movement; the string orchestra and harp (Noël Wan) version of Drink the Wild Ayre; Eye of Mnemosyne, a work on memory, innovation, and culture; and Something for the Dark, a meditation on resilience. Snider says: “I chose to create an album of these four works because they share themes of perseverance, alliance, and evolution through dark and light—concepts that have been at the forefront of my mind in recent years."

After a nearly five-decade career as one of his generation’s defining rock bassists, time and space have finally allowed Flea to work with a dream band of modern jazz visionaries, returning to his first instrument and musical love, the trumpet, for a new album to be released in 2026 on Nonesuch. A preview, Flea’s original song “A Plea,” is out now. Written and performed by Flea, “A Plea” urges listeners to “build a bridge, shine a light, make something beautiful and see somebody, give it to somebody.” Featuring Flea on electric bass, vocals, and trumpet, the ensemble also includes double bassist Anna Butterss and guitarist Jeff Parker, as well as drummer Deantoni Parks, percussionist Mauro Refosco, alto flutist Rickey Washington, and trombonist Vikram Devasthali. Chris Warren joins on vocals, as does the song’s producer Josh Johnson, who also plays alto saxophone. Also out today: a music video, directed by Clara Balzary and featuring choreography by Sadie Wilking.

Legendary Malian balafon player Neba Solo and donso n’goni player Benego Diakité’s A Djinn and a Hunter Went Walking—the first in a series of new releases in collaboration with longtime Nonesuch partner Nick Gold, former head of World Circuit Records—is due February 13 on Etoile Audio / Nonesuch. On the album, co-produced by Gold, Ousmane Haïdara, and Sonny Johns, the acoustic instrumentals are complemented by vocals and percussion as well as touches of mellotron, guitar, and strings. The CD version includes a second disc of their original duo performances, unadorned, recorded in a Bamako garden under a mango tree. Neba Solo and Benego Diakité perform the album track "Djinê Mogo Tiki" live in a new video you can watch here.

Jonny Greenwood's score to Paul Thomas Anderson's film One Battle After Another is now available on double vinyl and CD, following its recent digital release. The album features 18 new compositions performed by London Contemporary Orchestra, with conductor Hugh Tieppo-Brunt. Greenwood contributed piano, guitar, bass, percussion, and ondes Martenot. The film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, and Benicio Del Toro, and Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti, is Greenwood's sixth Nonesuch-released Anderson film score. "Paul Thomas Anderson fans are well accustomed to how instrumental Jonny Greenwood's music is to the auteur’s body of work," Indiewire says of their collaborations: "Greenwood's original scores expertly capture Anderson's tones."

The soundtrack to Luca Guadagnino’s film After the Hunt is now available on CD, following its recent digital release. It features the score by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, a selection of works by the composer John Adams, and music by Ambitious Lovers, Julius Eastman, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Everything But The Girl, and others. After the Hunt, which stars Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Chloë Sevigny, marks the fourth film Reznor and Ross have scored for Guadagnino.

Touch, Tortoise's first new album since 2016, is now on all streaming platforms, following its recent vinyl and CD release. The band has also shared an animated video, by Selina Trepp, for the album track "Rated OG." Tortoise will perform with the Chicago Philharmonic at The Auditorium in Chicago tonight and has a three-night stand at NYC's Bowery Ballroom this weekend.

Chris Thile's Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 2—on which he performs Bach's Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004; Sonata No. 3 in C major, BWV 1005; and Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006—is out now. For his second recording of Bach Violin Sonatas and Partitas, 12 years after the first volume, the mandolin virtuoso opted for a more personal approach, allowing himself to take liberties with the scores, which he recorded in multiple, somewhat untraditional, locations of personal significance. Nonesuch Store orders include an autographed print while they last. Thile kicks off his European tour tonight and resumes his US tour in January.

Hurray for the Riff Raff (aka Alynda Segarra) has released a cherry-colored, carbon-neutral Eco-Mix vinyl edition of their acclaimed 2024 album The Past Is Still Alive, made from 100% recycled vinyl. "Segarra has created an epic tale of life on the road, a nearly mythic version of their own life story that stands alongside other great American musical travelogues," exclaims NPR Music. "Career-defining."

Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway are joined by Ketch Secor to offer their take on The Pogues' 1987 holiday classic with Kirsty MacColl, "Fairytale of New York." You can hear it here.

Drummer, producer, and sonic collagist Makaya McCraven releases four distinct yet interconnected EPs—Techno Logic, The People’s Mixtape, Hidden Out!, and PopUp Shop—today. All four are compiled on the two-disc Off the Record, released October 17. Built from live, improvised performances, the music is later reshaped by McCraven via extensive editing, overdubs, and post-production at his home studio. Each EP is drawn from moments of pure improvisation, recorded live in performance, shaped as much by the room and audience as by the musicians themselves, including Ben LaMar Gay, Theon Cross, Junius Paul, Marquis Hill, Joel Ross, Jeremiah Chiu, Jeff Parker, Josh Johnson, Justefan, and Benjamin J. Shepherd.

Touch, Tortoise's first new album since 2016, is out now on LP, CD, and digital download, with streaming to follow November 11. The groundbreaking group harnesses its collectivist songwriting approach to reconnect, recenter, and reinvigorate their sound for what is perhaps its most diverse release to date. Re-engineered Krautrock, hand-cranked techno rave-ups, and pointillist spaghetti Western fanfares are all imbued with Tortoise's signature internal logic. The band shared a video for the new track "A Title Comes," which you can watch here, and will perform with the Chicago Philharmonic at The Auditorium in Chicago and lead a three-night weekend stand at NYC's Bowery Ballroom in November.