Joanna Newsom has announced a free show in support of Barack Obama, to take place next week in Nevada.

On Monday, October 20, the Nightingale Concert Hall on the University of Nevada campus in Reno will play host to Joanna Newsom, who will perform in support of Illinois Senator and Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama. The show is free, and open to folks in possession of either Nevada student IDs or driver's licenses. Ambitious fans, howe...

After the ascension of Devendra & Co., when I hear "freak folk" I hear "bank," so even though Joanna distanced herself from that "soulless, mindless, watered-down, image-obsessed, artless stab at John Fahey or Marc Bolan or Karen Dalton or Donovan or Vashti Bunyan," it's not surprising to find The Milk-Eyed Mender's closer "Clam, Crab, Cockl...

Joanna Newsom is to play a one-off show at Somerset House.

The Coral, Joanna Newsom, Clinic, Johnny Flynn and Lykke Li have been added to the line-up of the forthcoming Latitude festival.