k.d. lang has been named the recipient of the Americana Music Association's 2018 Americana Trailblazer Award. The honor will be presented at the Americana Honors & Awards, at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on September 12. She will also headline the Ryman on September 16 on the just-announced nine-city fall leg of her "Ingénue Redux" Tour, which includes shows in Florida, Alabama, and Texas.

Lake Street Dive joined WFUV at Brooklyn's Retrofret Vintage Guitars for a session of NPR's Night Owl. Following last month's release of their take on "Baby Don't Leave Me Alone with My Thoughts," from the new album Free Yourself Up, comes a new song from the session: "Musta Been Something." Watch it here.

Mandy Patinkin was a guest on The Late Late Show with James Corden last night, along with actress Lucy Liu and musician Shawn Mendes, who is a special guest / co-host on the show all week. Patinkin gave Mendes some love advice based on his own marriage of forty years and gave the audience of taste of what Mendes's song "Stitches" sounds like in Yiddish. You can watch both segments here. Patinkin release Diary: January 27, 2018, the first in a series of musical installments with Thomas Bartlett, in April.

Devendra Banhart begins a seven-city tour of Asia with a performance at the Guro Arts Valley Theatre in Seoul tonight. The tour, a series of duo performances with his longtime collaborator Noah Georgeson, continues with concerts in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, and Kyoto. 

Rostam releases Half-Light Remixes: EP 1—reimagined versions of four tracks from his 2017 debut album, Half-Light—today. The EP features new takes on "Gwan" from Tourist, "Warning Intruders" from Jim-E Stack, "Half-Light" from Instupendo, and "Bike Dream" from Matsor Projects. Rostam kicks off a tour of Europe and the UK with performances with festival sets at Primavera Sound in Barcelona today and All Points East in London on Saturday, followed by shows in France, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, and a return to the UK for two nights in London.

Lake Street Dive has shared a video of a live performance of "Hang On," from the new album Free Yourself Up. The video was filmed by Alex Chaloff at Goosehead Palace Studios in Nashville, where the band recorded Free Yourself Up. You can watch it here.

Joshua Redman is joined by drummer Brian Blade, bassist Scott Colley, and cornetist Ron Miles for Still Dreaming, an album inspired by his father Dewey Redman's band Old and New Dreams, out now. That band had an all-star lineup of Ornette Coleman collaborators: Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Ed Blackwell. "Consistently riveting," says the Washington Post. "It all makes for a jazz adventure that begs for repeated listening," says the Lexington Herald-Leader. "The more you tune in, the more you hear the present day curators of a sublime jazz legacy forging its music into something unmistakably new."

Lake Street Dive were musical guests on Conan on TBS last night. The band performed "Good Kisser" from the new album Free Yourself Up. You can watch it here. The band has brought its Free Yourself Up tour to California, at the Ford Theater in LA last night, House of Blues in Anaheim tonight, The Fillmore in San Francisco on Friday, and BottleRock Napa Valley on Sunday.

Devendra Banhart has been named a curator of and performer at the 2018 Le Guess Who? festival. Le Guess Who? is a celebration of sound in the city of Utrecht, The Netherlands. Dedicated to boundary-crossing music from across the globe, the twelfth edition of the festival takes place November 8–11, 2018. The artists Banhart welcomes to the festival include Vashti Bunyan, Ghanaian Highlife musician Ebo Taylor, Japanese singer-songwriter Shintaro Sakamoto, and several others. This year's other curators are Asia Argento, Shabaka Hutchings, and Moor Mother.

Punch Brothers have shared a video of their live performance of "Julep," a song from their 2015 album, The Phosphorescent Blues, at the Taft Theatre in Cincinnati, Ohio, last summer. You can watch it here. The video comes about a month before the band's return to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, not long after which the big US summer tour begins (and after that, a European autumn tour).

Cheers to Olivia Chaney, who has been busy signing the limited-edition prints included with pre-orders of her new album, Shelter, exclusively in the Nonesuch Store. Pre-orders also include an instant download of the album tracks "IOU" and "Roman Holiday," which you can hear here, and a download of the complete album available from release day, June 15. Tickets are on sale now for album release shows in NYC and London in June.

Audra McDonald was a guest on The Late Late Show with James Corden on CBS. She joined Corden and Dan Stevens for a few very special performances of inappropriate musicals. "Many of Broadway's biggest hit musicals have been based on movies," says Corden. "But there are so many more great movie possibilities. So tonight, we proudly present scenes from a trio of exciting screen-to-stage adaptations." Watch the performances here.