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...

As made apparent by some other recent live appearances, Joanna Newsom seems to be cooking up some new material. Giving further cadence to this idea is this live footage from this weekend’s Treasure Island Festival in San Francisco, where Newsom played a new, flighty piano ballad that’s been given the unofficial title &#82...

After playing the Wiltern earlier this year, Wilco triumphantly closed out their tour of the country with a magical evening at the Hollywood Bowl. Some of the highlights included the crowd singing along to “Jesus, Etc.”, the cascades of feedback on end “Art Of Almost,” and a soaring rendition of &#8220...

SNL writer Mike O’Brien has a web series called 7 Minutes In Heaven, a show that features Mike and a celebrity guest in a closet. Each episode culminates with O’Brien trying to kiss the guest — it’s basically awkwardness porn. This week’s episode featured Joanna Newsom, who is admirably game. Wat...

Last night, Joanna Newsom performed with Philip Glass during a benefit for Big Sur’s Henry Miller Memorial Library at San Francisco’s Warfield Theater, and during the performance she played a new, harp-led song called “The Diver’s Wife.” It’s a spare, labyrinthine ballad. Listen to it a...