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."

Laurie Anderson has announced a series of 2026 European tour dates with the band Sexmob. The Republic of Love tour starts April 5 in Copenhagen, with shows in Helsinki, Brussels, Paris, Zagreb, Harleen, and Munich. This follows performances at Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN, in March, and a January show in Reykjavik.

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.

Robert Plant was on CBS Saturday Morning to talk with Robert Costa and perform a Saturday Sessions set with Saving Grace from the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York. They perform three songs from their new album, Saving Grace—"Higher Rock," "It's a Beautiful Day Today," and "Everybody's Song." You can watch it all here.

Robert Plant and Saving Grace stopped by the NPR offices in Washington, DC, to perform a Tiny Desk Concert of four songs from their new album, Saving Grace: "Gospel Plough," "Higher Rock," "Everybody's Song," and "It's a Beautiful Day Today"—followed by "Gallows Pole." You can watch it here.

Chris Thile was on NPR's All Things Considered to talk with Derek Operle from NPR member station WKMS in Murray, Kentucky, about his new album, Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 2, which he recorded in multiple locations of personal significance, including in Murray. "Interacting with this body of work made by a fellow human being, albeit a long time ago, makes me proud to be human," Thile tells Operle. "Like, look at this beauty that a human being is capable of making." You can hear their conversation here.

Robert Plant, whose debut album with Saving Grace, Saving Grace, was released on Nonesuch in September, stopped by for the Nonesuch Selects video series, in which artists visit the Nonesuch office, pick some of their favorite albums from the music library, and share a few words on their choices. He chose recordings by Kronos Quartet, The Low Anthem, Neba Solo & Benego Diakité, Bulgarian State Television Female Choir, Viktor Krauss, and Charlie Feathers.

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.

“If you've seen One Battle After Another, you will know that the score is so important to the film," Soundtracking host Edith Bowman says ahead of her conversation with the score's composer, Jonny Greenwood. "And it starts with score. You're in it because of that. There's so many textures and layers and wonderful motifs and themes throughout the entire score. I think it's definitely one of my favorite Jonny Greenwood scores. And it feels like it's almost everything that he's previously done with Paul Thomas Anderson has led to this particular score. It's so good … Incredible.” You can hear their conversation 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."

Congratulations to Yasmin Williams, who has won the International Folk Music Awards' Rising Tide Award, which "celebrates emerging artists who inspire others by embodying the values and ideals of the folk community through their work." The composer/guitarist's "inventive finger-style approach ... has expanded the instrument’s expressive possibilities," reads the Folk Alliance International citation. "Through her boundary-pushing artistry and principled activism, Yasmin Williams stands as one of contemporary music’s most visionary and courageous voices, fully embodying the values and ideals of the folk community." The IFMAs will be presented at the 38th Annual Folk Alliance International Conference in New Orleans on January 21.

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.