Molly Tuttle has released a video for "Old Me (New Wig)," a song she co-wrote with Ketch Secor on her acclaimed new album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine. You can watch the video, directed by Fletcher Moore, here. "Virtuoso guitar picking crops up on every song," says the UK's Sunday Times, naming So Long Little Miss Sunshine its Album of the Week. "It’s wonderfully uplifting." The Financial Times calls it "a deftly paced blend of bluegrass-style storytelling and metaphor, and autobiographical detail. She moves forward with glorious attitude, without relinquishing her down-home roots." Holler says the album "strikes an unexpectedly deep chord, bringing bluegrass into a contemporary realm that’s full of intensely relatable experiences of girlhood, growth and gaining self-confidence."

Drummer, producer, and sonic collagist Makaya McCraven releases four distinct yet interconnected EPs—Techno Logic, The People’s Mixtape, Hidden Out!, and PopUp Shop—October 31 via International Anthem / Nonesuch / XL Recordings. All four are compiled on the two-disc Off the Record, due 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 and Theon Cross (Techno Logic); Junius Paul, Marquis Hill, Joel Ross, and Jeremiah Chiu (The People’s Mixtape); Paul, Jeff Parker, and Josh Johnson (Hidden Out!); and Parker, Justefan, and Benjamin J. Shepherd (PopUp Shop).

Cécile McLorin Salvant performs “What does blue mean to you?,” the new single from her upcoming album, Oh Snap, at SFJAZZ in a new video you can watch here. She is joined by Sullivan Fortner on piano, Yasushi Nakamura on bass, and Kyle Poole on drums for the performance, which was filmed live at SFJAZZ in May 2024.

Molly Tuttle celebrates the release of her new album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine, on NPR's World Cafe, talking with host Raina Douris and performing four songs from the album. "Molly Tuttle is one of the best young guitarists in the business," NPR's All Songs Considered host Stephen Thompson says on today's "Best New Albums" episode. "This thing is magical. It is so good ... a really magnificent album." His guest co-host, WBUR's Amelia Mason, says: "She does integrate her guitar playing incredibly effectively ... The songs are just really good ... it works really well." You can hear both episodes here.

Grammy Award–winning singer, songwriter, and guitarist Molly Tuttle's new solo album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine, is out now. Recorded in Nashville with producer Jay Joyce, it marks a sonic departure from her recent work. The album of eleven originals and one cover (Icona Pop and Charli xcx’s “I Love It”) is a hybrid of pop, country, rock, and flat-picking, plus a murder ballad. Her virtuoso guitar work takes center stage on this album more than ever, and for the first time, she introduces her banjo playing into two of her recordings. Tuttle and her new live band lead The Highway Knows US tour from September through December.

Molly Tuttle celebrates the release of her new album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine, on tour in Pennsylvania, Vermont, and upstate New York. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in California at La Jolla SummerFest. Caroline Shaw joins choreographer Vanessa Goodman in Toronto. Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered is performed in Mesa, Arizona. Chris Thile is in Bar Harbor, Maine.

Robert Plant has released "Gospel Plough," a new single from Saving Grace, an album and a band six years in the making, due September 26. With “Gospel Plough,” they transform a centuries-old spiritual number into a hypnotic mélange of vocals, steel banjo, acoustic guitar, and percussion. Supporting Plant and Saving Grace on their first US tour this fall will be Rosie Flores, including at the just-announced show at Harrah’s Resort SoCal on November 23.

Brad Mehldau made his late-night television debut on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night, performing "Colorbars," the latest track from his upcoming album of Elliott Smith music, Ride into the Sun, with singer/mandolinist Chris Thile, bassist Felix Moseholm, and drummer Matt Chamberlain. You can watch it here.

Brad Mehldau has released "Colorbars," featuring singer/mandolinist Chris Thile, the latest track from Ride into the Sun, his upcoming songbook record of music by the late singer, songwriter, and guitarist Elliott Smith. You can watch the video made during its recording, directed by Matthew Edginton, here. Mehldau performs on Jimmy Kimmel Live! with Thile, bassist Felix Moseholm, and drummer Matt Chamberlain on ABC tonight.

Laurie Anderson, Sam Amidon celebrate Arthur Russell in Thomas Bartlett-curated concert on Little Island NYC. Jeremy Denk, Davóne Tines perform at Aspen Music Festival. Richard Goode plays Mozart in Maine. Mary Halvorson is in Lisbon. Kronos Quartet, Cécile McLorin Salvant are in Ohio. Jeff Parker is in Michigan. Molly Tuttle tours Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming. Yasmin Williams is at Edmonton Folk Fest.

“I was commissioned to write something based on Toni Morrison’s archive," Cécile McLorin Salvant says of “What does blue mean to you?,” a new song from her upcoming album, Oh Snap. "I read Beloved as I was looking through her archive ... The song is about all these colors that are in the book and the ways that the characters interact with the colors. I’m really glad we put that on the album because it is quite different from all the other songs, but you could say that about every song probably."

Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Molly Tuttle, whose new solo album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine, is out August 15 on Nonesuch, 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. She chose recordings by Sam Amidon, Punch Brothers, Wilco, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Lake Street Dive, Yola, and Emmylou Harris. You can watch it here.