Douglas McCombs and John Herndon of Tortoise stopped by Amoeba San Francisco for a shopping trip and a chat for Amoeba’s What’s in My Bag? series. They pick up a book by Budgie and music by Tom Verlaine, Louis Jordan, David Thomas, Silent Servant, Broadcast, Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers, Bill Orcutt, Emptyset, Wah!, Oneohtrix Point Never, The Durutti Column, and Peaches. You can take a look inside and hear what they have to say about their picks here.

Robert Plant and Saving Grace release a vinyl EP, Saving Grace: All That Glitters..., this Saturday for Record Store Day, the annual celebration of independent record stores. The record follows Plant's recent critically acclaimed album, Saving Grace; both feature singer Suzi Dian and a band of musicians from the English countryside that Plant—this year's Record Store Day Legend—calls home. The EP's four tracks, recently recorded especially for RSD, explore the folk and Americana songs that Plant and the band love: the traditional tunes "The Blackest Crow" and "Two Coats," arranged by Robert Plant and Saving Grace, as well as Gillian Welch's "Orphan Girl" and Bert Jansch's "Poison."

John Adams conducts Houston Symphony. Timo Andres plays Philip Glass in Ann Arbor. Jeremy Denk plays Ives and more in Austin. Rhiannon Giddens is in Baltimore, Boone, and Louisville. Richard Goode plays Schubert and Beethoven in NYC. Emmylou Harris is in Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz, CA. Gabriel Kahane is in Burlington and NYC. Brad Mehldau joins Gilad Hekselman at Village Vanguard in NYC. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in Georgia and upstate NY. Molly Tuttle is in Memphis and Bloomington. Yasmin Williams is in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.

Composer Sarah Kirkland Snider, whose new album, Forward Into Light, was released in February, 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 Henryk Górecki, Steve Reich, Wilco, Laurie Anderson, Iva Bittová, Ingram Marshall, and Kronos Quartet. You can get all of Sarah Kirkland Snider's Nonesuch Selects for 25% off the everyday low prices in the Nonesuch Store through Sunday.

Flea is on Track Star* to talk with host Jack Coyne about the artists whose work he interprets on his recently released debut solo album, Honora—George Clinton and Eddie Hazel, Jimmy Webb, Frank Ocean and Shea Taylor, and Ann Ronell (the album also includes six original songs)—as well as Herbie Hancock, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Ambrose Akinmusire, and Randy Newman. You can watch the episode with Flea, whom Track Star* calls "one of the most singular musicians of the past 40 years," here. "This episode," says the show, "will be sure to take you on an unexpected journey and leave you wanting more."

Laurie Anderson and Sexmob perform in Brussels and Paris. Mary Halvorson is in Poughkeepsie. Chris Thile performs in Indiana and Arkansas. Davóne Tines performs in Philip Glass's Satyagraha with Opéra national de Paris. Molly Tuttle is in Texas.

Trumpeter/composer Ambrose Akinmusire and guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson's album Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings is due June 12 on Nonesuch. It features four new compositions by each musician plus one collaboration; you can hear the track "Soundcheck" now. The duo, long admirers of each other’s musicianship, began playing together periodically back in 2009. They rehearsed the music on Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings in January 2025, just before performing it at the NYC club The Stone; they recorded the album the next day at Sear Sound. “I think it’s partly a shared aesthetic and an ease of communication. I feel comfortable to try whatever,” Halvorson says. Akinmusire concurs, “I think it’s rare to find an improviser that all goes and nothing has to go at all. It’s rare to feel like you don’t have to do anything and you can do anything. And that’s what I love about playing with Mary.”

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—were on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to perform "Higher Rock," from their 2025 debut album, Saving Grace, and the Led Zeppelin tune "Ramble On" last night. You can watch both performances here. Plant was on the show on the release of Saving Grace last fall. He and the band, who concluded their US spring tour in NYC this week, head to Latin America in May and back to Europe in June. They release a vinyl EP, Saving Grace: All That Glitters..., on Record Store Day, Saturday, April 18. Plant is this year's Record Store Day Record Store Legend. 

Flea's debut solo album, Honora, is now the No. 1 jazz album around the world. Honora marks his first-ever chart debut as a solo artist, landing at No. 1 on this week's UK, French, and German jazz charts. As the No. 1 new jazz album in America, Honora was the top debut on Billboard's Overall Jazz Albums and Contemporary Jazz Albums charts (no. 2 overall), in addition to breaking the cumulative Top 40 in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland, and more. Honora is also one of just two jazz albums on this week's Billboard 200.

Premiere screenings of an album-length concert film by Charlie Weinmann, capturing the August 2025 Lodge Room performance that became guitarist/band leader Jeff Parker's new ETA IVtet album, Happy Today, will take place in select cities in late April and early May, before the album's release on May 15. The film will be released worldwide on May 29.

"This record really was a next chapter for me in my life and as an artist, this time in my life that I thought was an ending suddenly was like, oh my God, it's only just beginning," Hurray for the Riff Raff, aka Alynda Segarra, tells Song Exploder host Hrishikesh Hirway on the show's latest episode, about their track "Alibi," from the album The Past Is Still Alive, a live performance of which can also be heard on the new recording Live Forever. "Especially when this song came out and the way that people responded to it, it felt immediately different than any other time in my career. It just felt like, whoa, I'm not giving up on this." You can hear the episode here.

Flea is on the latest episode of iHeartRadio's The Questlove Show. He talks with host Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson about his debut solo album Honora, the long road back to his first musical love, and the rituals that ground his creativity and daily life. You can watch their conversation here.