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Photos of a sold-out show by Joanna Newsom in L.A. the other night (complete with standing ovation and a female would-be-stage-crasher blocked by security), with an opening set by an apologetic Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes, paranoid that his voice wouldn’t work properly after having quit smoking. (Of course it did, and also CONGRATS ROBIN [...]
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Joanna Newsom and Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold don’t exactly seem like the physical type, but you need some sort of arm-strength to keep playing harp for hours on end, just like you need some forearm power to chop wood, which is what I assume Pecknold is doing whenever he’s not harmonizing with somebody. At [...]
submitted by Nick Oct 10th 2011 08:00 pm (stereogum.com)
Jason Segel’s rebooted Muppets movie is coming out soon, and a few indie-universe types have cameos on the soundtrack album. Bret McKenzie, one half of Flight Of The Concords, wrote four new songs for the movie. One of them is called “Life’s A Happy Song,” and it features vocals from Feist and Mickey Roone...
Last night Joanna Newsom and Josh T. Pearson closed out Ferrara Sotto Le Stelle 2011, the Italian festival we covered earlier this month when PJ Harvey performed. The show was moved from the “cortile del castello” (castle’s courtyard) to the teatro comunale because of bad weather. Joanna remarked that the venue remi...


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