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”...

Over the weekend, the Jeff Mangum-curated ATP festival went down in Butlins, Minehead, UK, and as a result there’s some footage out there from the likes of Joanna Newsom, Low, and the Fall. Check that out down below, and if other stuff pops (perhaps from the likes of Magnetic Fields, Thurston Moore, Mangum himself, etc.), [...]

On this Friday’s episode of Portlandia, Joanna Newsom shows up in a sketch. And you don’t actually have to wait until then to watch it; it’s below. In said sketch, Newsom plays part of a group of flower-children (including Robin Pecknold) having an ethereal meadow jam session that goes sour when someone tries to jam...