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 [...]

Last night, Justin Timberlake returned to Saturday Night Live to host for the fifth time. He took on musical guest duties, as well, as he did when he hosted in 2006. That was also the year that he and Andy Samberg — who recently got engaged to Joanna Newsom! — debuted their Color Me Badd-indebted [...]

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 ...