Mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile has released a video of him performing Bach's Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: III. Sarabanda live at Reservoir Studios in New York City. He also performs the piece on his new album, Bach: Sonatas & Partitas, Vol. 2, which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Traditional Classical Albums chart on its release on Nonesuch in November. You can watch the video, directed by Matthew Edginton, here.

Malian balafon player Neba Solo and donso n’goni player Benego Diakité have released "Seko," a new song from their upcoming album, A Djinn and a Hunter Went Walking, along with a live performance video shot in the Bamako garden where the basic tracks for the project were recorded; you can watch it here. The album is the first of a series of releases from Nonesuch and its longtime partner, Nick Gold, former head of World Circuit Records. Co-produced by Gold, Ousmane Haïdara, and Sonny Johns, it is due February 13, on Etoile Audio / Nonesuch Records. 

Molly Tuttle is on the latest episode of the American Songwriter show Off the Record. She talks with host and American Songwriter Editor-in-Chief Lisa Konickito about her latest album, the twice GRAMMY-nominated So Long Little Miss Sunshine, on which, Konickito says, Tuttle "explores country, rock, and pop; all the while, she's still the amazing guitar player that we know and love." You can watch their conversation here.

Composer Sarah Kirkland Snider has released Eye of Mnemosyne: III. Mori: "Memory of the Dead," a new track from her upcoming album, Forward Into Light, as well as a video for it by Deborah Johnson / CandyStations; you can watch it here. Produced by Silas Brown and recorded by Metropolis Ensemble and artistic director/conductor Andrew Cyr, Forward Into Light is due February 27. Eye of Mnemosyne is a multimedia orchestral work on memory, innovation, and culture as refracted through the lens of photography.

After a nearly five-decade career as one of his generation’s defining rock bassists, Flea releases his first full-length solo album, Honora, March 27, on Nonesuch.Flea composed and arranged the music and plays trumpet and bass throughout, joined by an elite crew of modern jazz visionaries: album producer and saxophonist Josh Johnson, guitarist Jeff Parker, bassist Anna Butterss, and drummer Deantoni Parks. The record features vocals from Flea, as well as friends Thom Yorke and Nick Cave. Mauro Refosco and Nate Walcott, among others, also join the band. Honora comprises six original songs, plus interpretations of tunes by George Clinton and Eddie Hazel, Jimmy Webb, Frank Ocean and Shea Taylor, and Ann Ronell. The track “Traffic Lights,” co-written with Thom Yorke and Josh Johnson and featuring vocals, piano, and synth from Yorke, is out now; you can watch a visualizer by nespy5euro here. Flea and the Honora band embark on an international tour, playing intimate venues in select cities, this May.

"A polymathic, pioneering multimedia artist" is how Flo Dill describes Laurie Anderson, her guest on the latest episode of her NTS podcast Digging with Flo. Anderson joins Dill in the greenhouse for a bit of gardening and a chat. You can watch and hear it here.

GRAMMY Award–winning singer, songwriter, and guitarist Molly Tuttle and her band were on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night to perform her GRAMMY-nominated song "That's Gonna Leave a Mark," from her GRAMMY-nominated album So Long Little Miss Sunshine. You can watch it here.

"There have been few people since I started my channel that I really wanted to interview, and one of them is bass icon Flea," Rick Beato says of his guest. "I just love music," Flea says when asked about the diversity of his musical tastes. "The first time I really saw people playing music, was playing bebop in my living room, guys jamming out, ferociously ... It's very cerebrally, spiritually, in every way, a very intense music. And as a little kid, I just couldn't believe it. It was so beautiful ... It was just people making music, and it always affected me in the same way. It was just, like, 'This is beautiful' ... It's all music, and I'm grateful for all of it."

Mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile has released a video of him performing Bach's Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: I. Allemanda live at Reservoir Studios in New York City. He also performs the piece on his new album, Bach: Sonatas & Partitas, Vol. 2, which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Traditional Classical Albums chart on  its release on Nonesuch last month. You can watch the video, directed by Matthew Edginton, here.

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.