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.

"I'm speaking with the Queen of Americana ... a singer who summons the truth of every song that she touches," BBC Radio 4 Front Row presenter Kate Molleson says of her guest Emmylou Harris. "She brought together the worlds of folk, rock and country music, and she took harmony singing to new heights." Harris spoke with Molleson about her life and career ahead of her European Farewell Tour, which begins in Glasgow and Dublin this weekend. You can hear the episode here. Harris also spoke with the Guardian's Fiona Sturges about her career in music and why she won't be winding it down anytime soon. "I don’t really know what winding down is,” Harris says. “I think when you’re an artist, you don’t ever really retire. As I tell my friends, I don’t know what I’m doing, but I sure am doing a lot of it.” 

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.

The 20th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll results have arrived. Mary Halvorson's About Ghosts tops the list of New Jazz Albums, which also includes Ambrose Akinmusire's honey from a winter stone and Cecile McLorin Salvant's Oh Snap, which is also No. 1 on the list of Vocal Jazz Albums. Congratulations, all!

Spoleto Festival USA has announced the lineup for its 2026 edition, taking place in Charleston, SC, May 22–June 7, 2026, including performances from Punch Brothers, Yasmin Williams, Molly Tuttle, and Emmylou Harris, as well as a celebration of America's 250th with filmmaker Ken Burns.

Rhiannon Giddens & Silkroad Ensemble, Yasmin Williams, and Mary Halvorson all perform at NYC Winter Jazzfest, while nearby Sarah Kirkland Snider’s new opera gets its NYC premiere. Across the Atlantic, Cécile McLorin Salvant joins DR Big Band in Copenhagen.

"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.

Composer Donnacha Dennehy was on WNYC's New Sounds to talk with host John Schaefer about his piece Land of Winter. Its recording, which Schaefer includes on his Top Ten for the year, is up for two GRAMMY Awards: Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Dennehy and Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for Alarm Will Sound and conductor Alan Pierson. You can hear the episode here.

As 2025 draws to a close, and the Nonesuch Journal takes a bit of a hiatus till the start of what we hope will be a happy, healthy new year, it's time for a look back and remember all of the great and diverse music made by Nonesuch artists over the past year. Many Nonesuch artists and their recent Nonesuch releases have made year's best lists and are up for Grammy Awards. Several of those artists stopped by to share some of their favorite Nonesuch albums for the Nonesuch Selects video series. Here, in words and music and in chronological order, is a look back at the year in Nonesuch music, in gratitude.

Happy holidays! To add some merry to the mix, we've got Nonesuch for the Holidays, a playlist of holiday tunes both classic and soon-to-be-so from Molly Tuttle, The Staves, Rachael & Vilray, Chris Thile, The Magnetic Fields, David Byrne, Emmylou Harris, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Joachim Cooder, Mountain Man, John Adams, Julia Bullock, Boston Camerata, The Nutcracker, and more. You can hear 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."