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...

Over the weekend, Drag City posted a previously unreleased Joanna Newsom track called “Instrumental 1999″ which — get this — is an instrumental track put together in 1999. During that period, Drag City notes, Newsom was “newly armed with a driver’s license and a Dodge Caravan”...