If you didn’t know, Fred Armisen lets his hair down and records music/instructs drumming for Drag City as epic skinsman Jens Hannemann. He’s in the midst of opening a couple of shows with his labelmate Joanna Newsom. One of those shows took place last night at the Jefferson Theatre in Charlottesville, Virginia where Armisen t...

Plus The Unthanks and Fionn Regan added to line-up

Frontman set to hit the road in March and April

Joanna Newsom’s always been a storyteller. On 2004’s The Milk-Eyed Mender the tales were richly and eccentrically meandering, even if the songs have retrospectively proven to be the most concise and straightforward in a catalog that includes 2006’s Van Dyke Parks orchestral Ys and now her most ambitious collection H...

We've heard the stylistically diverse "81" pastoral and jazzy "Good Intentions Paving Company" outing. Now, after adding the gorgeous 9-minute madrigal/short story "Kingfisher" to the Have One On Me tracklist, the only thing to be sure of is that the 3-CD collection won't be following one specific path. But color me impressed. You can hear the n...