Everyone enjoy this moment, since we may never again get to see Joanna Newsom’s name on the Us Weekly website. According to that venerable institution, Newsom and her boyfriend of five years, SNL vet and Lonely Island lead Andy Samberg, are engaged. Us Weekly also has a bunch of quotes from an anonymous friend who’s [...]

The pair have been dating for five years

We The Common is the latest album of wound-up, experimentally minded indie-pop that Portland’s Thao Nguyen has recorded under the name Thao & The Get Down Stay Down. Indie production veteran John Congleton helmed the album, and we’ve already posted “Holy Roller,” “We The Common (For Valerie Bolden),” and the ...

Thao Nguyen will release We The Common, her newest album of fractured indie-pop under her Thao & The Get Down Stay Down name, in a couple of months. She’s already shared early tracks “Holy Roller” and “We The Common (For Valerie Bolden),” but the album track that most of us were most amp...

Next month, Portland indie-pop experimenter Thao Nguyen, who records as Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, will release her now album We The Common. We haven’t heard its Joanna Newsom collab yet, but we have heard the early track “Holy Roller.” And now we’ve got the kinda-title track, which has an ant...