We’ve known for a while that Joanna Newsom was going to play a role in the film adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice, but it was only last week that we found out that she would narrate the whole thing. For a novel as densely plotted as Pynchon’s, the narrator will presumably play an important [...]

After five years of dating, Andy Samberg and Joanna Newsom are now married. The couple’s wedding took place yesterday at a luxury retreat in Big Sur, the Post Ranch Inn, according to US Weekly. “He liked her music and would go to her shows,” a friend of Samberg’s said in an interview with Us Weekly. [...]

Joanna Newsom has been cast in Paul Thomas Anderson’s upcoming film Inherent Vice, screen adaptation of reclusive novelist Thomas Pynchon’s foray into pulp fiction of the same name. The story is about a mediocre, pothead detective as he investigates the kidnapping of his ex-girlfriend. There is no word on who Newsom will be p...

Those lucky folks attending Pitchfork Festival this weekend (including Claire and Liz on our end) got a nice surprise from Joanna Newsom’s set. As you can see from the fan videos below, Newsom played some new songs. One (played on harp) is still untitled, while the other (on piano) is the previously performed “Look And [...]

The newly engaged Joanna Newsom hasn’t given us a whole ton of new music since the Have One On Me motherlode a couple of years ago, but she recently hit the studio to record a cover of Sandy Denny’s 1971 folk song “The North Star Grassman And The Ravens.” Given its vintage, the song sadly [...]