Robert Plant was on The Late Show to talk with host Stephen Colbert about coming together with the new band of distinguished players to create Saving Grace and their new album, Saving Grace. The conversation then turns to Tolkien and talk of life in the West Midlands. You can watch it here.

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.

Tortoise's Jeff Parker and John McEntire were on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday to talk with host Ayesha Rascoe about the band's new album, Touch, and their upcoming concert with Chicago Philharmonic at The Auditorium on November 11. You can hear their conversation 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.

John Adams takes part in the Hallé's festival of his music in Manchester, UK. Timo Andres celebrates Halloween with Kronos Quartet in San Francisco, including a new piece by Gabriel Kahane, who is at 92NY in NYC, where Davóne Tines is at the Frick. Mary Halvorson and Amaryllis play About Ghosts in Finland and Berlin. Natalie Merchant kicks off a tour in Western MA and upstate NY. Robert Plant and Saving Grace are in Charlottesville. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in Boston and Philadelphia. Gustavo Santaolalla brings Ronroco to Hamburg and Oslo. Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered is performed in Baltimore. Molly Tuttle is at Suwannee Hulaween in Florida.

Molly Tuttle has released a video for her take on Icona Pop & Charli xcx's song "I Love It," from her new album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine. You can watch the video, directed by Fletcher Moore, here.

Cécile McLorin Salvant has released a lyric video for "I am a volcano," the opening track to her new album, Oh Snap. You can watch it here. It comes on the heels of a six-part Q&A series in which she reveals, among other things, a discomfort with frogs, such as those featured in the new video.

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.

Molly Tuttle is in Denver, as is Makaya McCraven, before he heads to the Pacific Northwest. John Adams’ new piece gets Japanese premiere in Tokyo. Jeremy Denk plays Bach at University of Iowa. Richard Goode is in NYC. Mary Halvorson is in Italy. Gabriel Kahane is with The Bad Plus in Chicago, where Chris Thile plays solo. Mandy Patinkin is in Delaware. Cécile McLorin Salvant celebrates Oscar Peterson in Toronto. Gustavo Santaolalla performs Ronroco in Spain. Davóne Tines is in Western MA and upstate NY.

Cécile McLorin Salvant sat down for a Nonesuch Q&A about her new album, Oh Snap, covering a wide range of topics, including her songwriting process, working on the project in secret, AutoTune, bodily fluids, frogs, and embracing weirdness. You can see what she had to say in the six-part series filmed by Matthew Edginton here.

"Today I'm talking with one of the most creative musicians of our time," Rick Beato says of his guest Chris Thile. "What's most remarkable about Chris is how far he's pushed the mandolin beyond its roots, exploring everything from jazz to classical and beyond—literally redefining what's possible on the instrument." You can watch their conversation here.

"John Adams' music comes to me constantly," says filmmaker Luca Guadagnino. "Discovering it was transformative and changed my life as a director forever." In a new essay, Nonesuch Records' Matthew Rankin explores the connection between the filmmaker and composer, whose music has featured in almost all of Guadagnino's films, from 2009's I Am Love to the just-released After the Hunt. You can read it and hear a complete playlist of Adams's music in Guadagnino's work here.