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  Joanna Newsom Communes with an Owl in 'The North Star Grassman and the Ravens'

  March 14, 2013 – Harp-equipped fairy queen Joanna Newsom may have delivered three albums' worth of material for 2010's "self-contained world of warmth" Have One on Me, but she's a bit overdue for a new full-length. In light of that knowledge, this cover version of 1971's "The North Star Grassman and the Ravens," by late great English folky Sandy Denny, may only further frustrate fans eager for something to really sink their teeth into. …
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  Hear Joanna Newsom Join Thao & the Get Down Stay Down For 'Kindness Be Conceived'

  January 24, 2013 – In comes another treat from the highly promising February 5 Thao & the Get Down Stay Down album, We the Common. In October we got our first taste via the spirited "Holy Roller." At the start of January, SPIN premiered the singularly anthemic "We the Common [For Valerie Bolden]." And now we can share what was, for us at least, the LP's most anticipated track: "Kindness Be Conceived" featuring Joanna Newsom. …
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  Watch Joanna Newsom 'Look and Despair' in New Song

  October 15, 2012 – In our review of Joanna Newsom's 2010 triple-album, Have One On Me, we noted a balance between the singer's "insistent harp pluck and a rekindled love of the piano." That love affair with the keyboard continues in a new piano-driven song Newsom debuted at San Francisco's Treasure Island Music Festival over the weekend.Possibly titled "Look and Despair," the five-minute number finds Newsom visiting familiar lyrical territory: nature, mor …
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  Shins, Decemberists, Spurned Ben Gibbard: 3 Melancholy Gifts From Portland

  February 13, 2012 – While the music industry basked in Grammy afterglow today, Portland delivered three extremely Portland-y packages: Fresh off losing the Grammy for Best Rock Performance to the Foo Fighters, the Decemberists bounced back with their new song "One Engine," which will be included on the Hunger Games soundtrack, out March 20 (the film drops three days later). …
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  Virtuosic Joanna Newsom Charms at Carnegie Hall

  November 24, 2010 – With her virtuoso harp-playing and an ear for complex, ever-morphing arrangements, burgeoning art-rock icon Joanna Newsom undoubtedly deserved to take the stage at New York City's legendary Carnegie Hall last night. …
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• The Roots, 'How I Got Over' (Def Jam)

  June 24, 2010 – When Jim James addresses a higher power on Monsters of Folk's "Dear God"-gently entreating, "Why do we suffer?"-he sounds like an uneasy supplicant. But on the Roots' "Dear God 2.0" (also featuring James), frontman Black Thought goes B-boy Book of Job, decrying technology, acid rain, tsunamis, stock-market collapse, wars, atrocities. Then he spits bluntly: "Why is the world so ugly when you made it in your image?" Sheeeeit. …
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  LISTEN: New Roots Album!

  June 21, 2010 – The Roots are back with their first new album since becoming America's favorite late-night house band -- and their full-time gig with Jimmy Fallon hasn't tamed the Philly boys one bit. …
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  Bow Wow's Twitter Sex, Girls' Gay Porn

  May 13, 2010 – A new Beatles biopic, which re-imagines the Fab Four as zombies, is in the works. Its title: "A Hard Day's Night Of The Living Dead." [Deadline] NSFW: San Francisco's Girls are contributing music to a gay porn movie. "We're changing our band name to 'Boys,' too," said frontman Chris Owens. [Pitchfork] Egyptian-American singer Kareem Salama is on tour performing country music in the Middle East. …
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  Jim James, John Legend on New Roots Album

  April 22, 2010 – Philadelphia hip-hop group the Roots are no strangers to genre-bending collaborations -- they recently jammed with electro-rockers Hot Chip on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. And with their upcoming June release, the Roots are adding three new artists to their list. …
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  9 Best Moments of the Big Ears Festival

  March 29, 2010 –  …
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