Fleet Foxes have released "If You Need To, Keep Time on Me," a third track from their forthcoming album, Crack-Up, due June 16. You can hear the song, which premiered as a World Record on Zane Lowe's Beats 1 show, here. "If You Need To, Keep Time on Me" and the previously released tracks "Fool's Errand" and "Third of May / Ōdaigahara" are available to download now with pre-orders of Crack-Up.

Punch Brothers begin a US tour with a performance at ACL Live at the Moody Theater in Austin tonight. The two-week tour includes concerts in Dallas, Kansas City, Boulder, Denver, and Nashville, as well as festival sets at Blue Ox, Telluride Bluegrass, and more. The band will join forces with I'm With Her (Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, and Aoife O'Donovan) and guitarist Julian Lage for the American Acoustic tour in July and August.

Conor Oberst will extend his Salutations tour into the fall with a month of concerts in the US West and South. The newly added dates start at the Eccles Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, on October 1 and include stops in Nashville, Athens, Charlotte, Charleston; five cities in Florida; and shows in Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri. Oberst, backed by The Felice Brothers, begins the summer tour in Denver on June 30, plays across the US through July, heads to Europe in August, and returns to the States to play in September and October.

The Magnetic Fields bring 50 Song Memoir to Primavera Sound in Barcelona, where Shye Ben Tzur and the Rajasthan Express perform Junun …. Tigran Hamasyan is in Australia … Emmylou Harris headlines Nelsonville Music Festival … Lake Street Dive takes US tour down South … Pat Metheny concludes European tour … Conor Oberst brings Salutations South … Joshua Redman Trio tours Germany … The Staves are in Ireland … 

Offa Rex, the new project from Olivia Chaney and The Decemberists, has shared its take on "Blackleg Miner," from its debut album, The Queen of Hearts, due July 14. You can watch a studio performance video of the track, which premiered on Billboard, here. "Blackleg Miner" is available to download now with pre-orders of The Queen of Hearts, along with the previously released title track.

Shye Ben Tzur and the Rajasthan Express will perform music from their 2015 album, Junun, which the Times of London called "one of the most inspired releases of the year ," on tour across Europe, starting with two nights in Italy: at the Locus Festival in Bari tonight, and Ravenna Festival on Friday. Jonny Greenwood will join the group for both shows. Ben Tzur and the Rajasthan Express will open for Radiohead in select cities in addition to their own tour stops.

Nonesuch releases k.d. lang's Ingénue: 25th Anniversary Edition on July 14, 2017 (vinyl August 18), to celebrate the double platinum-selling, Grammy Award–winning album's silver anniversary. This new two-disc set includes remastered versions of the album's original ten tracks along with eight previously unreleased performances from lang's 1993 MTV Unplugged episode, recorded in New York City's Ed Sullivan Theater. You can watch her MTV Unplugged performance of "Constant Craving" here. Additionally, lang marks the anniversary with the Ingénue Redux Tour, which visits Australia and her home country of Canada this summer. Nonesuch Store pre-orders of the album include an exclusive, limited-edition print signed by lang.

Rhiannon Giddens was a guest on the Tavis Smiley show on PBS. She spoke with Smiley about the inspiration behind her new album, Freedom Highway, and gives a solo performance of "Julie," one of nine original songs she wrote or co-wrote for the album. "What I wanted was a way to tell those stories, but I’m a musician and they wanted to become songs," Giddens tells Smiley. "I didn't have a choice really." Watch the segment here.

Lake Street Dive begins an extensive US summer tour at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville tonight. The cross-country tour continues with headline and festival sets, as well as three shows supporting Jack Johnson and four with Amos Lee. The band also heads to Los Angeles for a special performance at the Hollywood Bowl for the Jazz at the Bowl series.

The Staves begin a nine-city tour across the UK and Ireland with a sold-out show at Gorilla in Manchester tonight. The tour includes additional headline shows at venues in Belfast, Galway, Limerick, Glasgow, Barrow in Furness, and Brighton, as well as sets at the Forbidden Fruit Festival in Dublin and Bushstock Festival in London.

David Lewiston passed away in Hawaii on May 29, 2017, at the age of 88, after an extended illness. The inveterate traveler-musicologist was among the first to release recordings as part of the Nonesuch Explorer Series, which presented indigenous music from around the world, in the late 1960s. His first recording in the series, Music from the Morning of the World, featuring field recordings from Bali, was inducted into the National Recording Registry of "culturally significant" sound recordings in 2008. Here, the musician, producer, and writer Brian Cullman offers a remembrance.

Randy Newman releases Dark Matter, his first album of new material in nine years, on Nonesuch on August 4. Produced by long-time Newman collaborators Mitchell Froom, Lenny Waronker, and David Boucher, the album includes songs about Vladimir Putin, the Kennedy brothers, Sonny Boy Williamson, science vs. religion, love and loss, and more. Here, Newman speaks with writer Michael Hill about the project and how it came to be.