joanna newsom

Joanna Newsom graces the stage at Dallas' Granada Theater one week from today -- on the evening of Wednesday, November 10 -- and the venue has hooked us up with two pairs of tickets to give away for the show. Just leave your name in the comments, along with your favorite Joanna Newsom song, and I'll pick the winners on Monday...

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Joanna Newsom's Have One on Me is finally out today, and NPR is offering a full album stream here. If the prospect of 3 LPs of new Newsom seems daunting, start with the incredible "Baby Birch" and the heartbreakingly intimate "Go Long" -- two of the album's defining tracks, both of which today's Pitchfork review inexplicably failed to mention -- or Newsom's perfect Joni-esque

For the third week in a row, Drag City hooks us up with another preview from Joanna Newsom's Have One on Me. Listen to the sprawling, 9+ minute "Kingfisher" here, and check the triple-LP's full tracklist after the jump... ******

In which a seven minute jazz-country-meets-The Hissing of Summer Lawns piano jam somehow adds up to one of the best things Newsom's ever done. Listen here or here. ******

Beautiful song, awful cover art. Listen here, if you can get the Drag City site to load, or stream the song below: (stream removed at request of label) ******

"Have One On Me" out 2-23-2010? Maybe. Update: Definitely. According to Drag City, "The Noose...um, draws closer." ******