Tortoise continues its series of special fall performances, bringing music from its new album Touch to Bowery Ballroom in New York City for a three-night run this weekend, tonight, Saturday (sold out), and Sunday. "These songs are full to bursting with sounds and ideas, suggesting a kind of wide-eyed maximalism, as though nothing is off limits except silence,” Uncut says of Touch. “It’s not just about getting back together after nearly a decade apart, but a band reaffirming the ideals that animated them in the first place.” Touch became available on all streaming services this week, following its recently release on vinyl and CD; you can get it and hear it here.

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Jeremy Denk performs Bach’s six partitas for solo keyboard at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley, California, tonight. You can hear his 2013 recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations here and his latest album, Ives Denk, here.

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Hurray for the Riff Raff is at Pappy & Harriet's in Pioneertown, California, tonight for Orville Peck’s Rodeo. They 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, last week; you can get it here.

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Haitian American singer and composer Nathalie Joachim, a scholar-in-residence at MoMA in New York city, is at the museum on Sunday for a special work-in-progress performance of her new opera, Le présent éternel. Joachim’s Ki moun ou ye was released on New Amsterdam / Nonesuch Records wlast year and was deemed “one of the year’s most creatively and personally ambitious albums” (SPIN).

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Also in New York City, Kronos Quartet is at Kaufman Music Center tonight. The program includes Terry Riley’s Cadenza on the Night Plain, as well as works by Garth Knox, Aleksandra Vrebalov, Angélica Negrón, Jungyoon Wie, and more.

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Natalie Merchant continues her three-week acoustic tour, joined by her guitarist of twenty-five years, Erik Della Penna, with two sold-out shows: at Lebanon Opera House in New Hampshire tonight and Hudson Hall in upstate New York on Saturday. Her latest record, Keep Your Courage, released on Nonesuch in 2023, dives into love and human connection in its many forms, with Mojo calling it “her most beautiful [material] in decades.” Merchant’s album Paradise Is There: The New Tigerlily Recordings was released ten years ago last week.

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Robert Plant and Saving Grace—vocalist Suzi Dian, drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player Matt Worley, and cellist Barney Morse-Brown—continue their first ever North American tour in support of their new album, Saving Grace, performing at Ellie Caulkins Opera House in Denver on Saturday. Plant was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last week to discuss the album; you can watch their conversation here.

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Cécile McLorin Salvant and her band—pianist Sullivan Fortner, bassist Yasushi Nakamura, and drummer Kyle Poole—perform at MC2 in Grenoble, France, tonight, followed by two shows in Spaing, at Teatro Municipal Quijano in Ciudad Real on Saturday and Auditorio El Batel in Cartagena on Sunday for Cartagena Jazz Festival. Her new album, Oh Snap, was released earlier this year. Salvant sat down for a Nonesuch Q&A about the new album, 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 here.

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Composer/producer/musician Gustavo Santaolalla continues to tour Europe with his acclaimed 1998 album Ronroco at Slagthuset in Malmö, Sweden, tonight and Auditorium della Conciliazione in Rome on Sunday. A remastered edition of the Grammy and Academy Award winner’s critically acclaimed album was released on vinyl for the first time in a newly remastered edition on Nonesuch Records last year.

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Chris Thile continues his European tour, bringing music from his new album, Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 2, and more, to Théâtre de Montbéliard in France tonight, then heads to the UK to perform at Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall in London on Saturday for the London Jazz Festival and St George's in Bristol on Sunday. You can watch a new video of the Largo, from Sonata No. 3 in C major, directed by Matthew Edginton, here. Ahead of the tour, Thile shared some cultural picks with RTE, by Miyazaki, Rothko, Stravinsky, Bolaño, Jennifer Egan, Elena Ferrante, George Saunders, Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner, and more; you can find that here. He also spoke with Songlines magazine about some albums that shaped him, by Miles Davis, Radiohead, Gillian Welch, Benjamin Britten, Edgar Meyer, Béla Fleck, and Mike Marshall; you can read that here. He stopped by for the Nonesuch Selects series to share some favorite Nonesuch albums; you can find that here.

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Bass-baritone Davóne Tines and his band THE TRUTH—pianist John Bitoy and sound artist Khari Lucas—perform his new piece Can I Help You? at ArtYard in Frenchtown, New Jersey, on Saturday. Their album ROBESOИ, released last year , grapples with a hero's legacy, exploding the musical repertoire of Paul Robeson. "Tines proves a masterful storyteller whose work is compellingly provocative,” Mojo says in its four-star review of ROBESON. You can hear the album here.

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Molly Tuttle continues her The Highway Knows tour in support of her new album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine, with shows at Varsity Theatre in Minneapolis tonight, Stoughton Opera House in Wisconsin on Saturday, and Englert Theater in Iowa City on Sunday. Tuttle has been nominated for two Grammy Awards: Best Americana Album for So Long Little Miss Sunshine and Best Americana Performance for the album track "That's Gonna Leave a Mark." Listen to her new holiday track with Golden Highway, joined by Ketch Secor, their take of The Pogues' 1987 holiday classic with Kirsty MacColl, "Fairytale of New York." Tickets go on sale today for Tuttle’s February tour with Marty Stuart; you can find them here.