If this is not mindblowing, then I don't know what is.

Joanna Newsom
Date and Time: Friday, August 22, 2008 7:30 p.m.
Number of seats: 1
Seat Info: Main Floor Row: R Seat: 101
Subtotal: $ 40.00 Seat Pricing: $ 40.00 x 1

Joanna Newsom
Date and Time: Friday, August 22, 2008 7:30 p.m.
Number of seats: 1
Seat Info: Main Floor Row: I Seat 18
Subtotal: $ 40.00 Seat Pricing: $ 40.00 x 1

Holla!

Amazing.

$40 for this freaky cunt? damn. she must have gotten into some nasty debt with the splurge harp purchases and squirrel clothes.

i can't believe montana loves joanna newsom.

it's charming

This isn't Logan Square Auditorium, you can't charge $15 bucks a head and cover costs.

especially not if she's paying 20% interest on her Appalachian Premier Discover Card.

i bought 2 tickets and got great seats. $40 is a lot but i figure it's going to be worth it to see her at the cso with full orchestra accompaniment.

Saw her last year with the Atlanta Symphony, and it was great.

She's better by herself and with her band, though.

Why? Simply looking at the bands I like you will see originality combined with strong songwriting. Newsom is a perfect fit. Plus she's a nature freak. "Ys" sounds even more amazing in the mountains.

I'm at work and can't listen to these songs but I'm getting excited about this show Friday.

The first clip is of awful quality, you're not missing much. Unreleased tracks? Is there a new album in the works?

last year she played some new songs... well, at least A new song when i saw her live.

she's lovely.

Anyone interested in my ticket tonight last minute? I'm waffling.

Don't waffle. Go.

I went. It was pretty good. I liked the Ys material with the symphony much more than everything else without it. Van Dyke Parks really made that album.

she sounded very good last night. had a lovely time.

also, joanna newsom's got a bit of a ghetto booty. nice.

I mean, she's no Vida Guererra.. but, hey, good to know!

Oh man, I liked the second half of the set more. I mean, I've already seen Ys all the way through at Logan Square Auditorium and it was real cool last night with the symphony but we got three new songs (all written in first person narrative) and what the band did with the old material ("Peach Plum Pear, and Inflamitory Writ specifically) was fantastic.

And the new song she closed her second set with was the second youtube I posted here. Great song, I wonder if it'll remain a solo or have any accompaniment on the album.

Great show last night, she and the band seemed to be in good spirits, interacting with the crowd and joking with each other throughout the second half of the night.

jealous

same here

Put this on the other day.

Amazing.

^Indeed

Is one of the main albums from this decade I will remember for a while

only recently did i discover that she's been dating Andy Samberg for a bunch of months now. solid stuff. maybe he'll make an appearance on the next album.

Joanna is one of those artists i don't really like (except for that EP with the Ys Street Band which i thought was overlooked) but am definitely intrigued by all her new projects.

One of the most talented people in music at the moment but that voice is painfully contrived.

Guys, IMO...

But then again...

that's a pretty silly conclusion. i would tend to agree more with her self-assessment in Wire Magazine (from a 2006 interview as per Wikipedia) that it is "untrainable" aka sucky by traditional standards and she can't fix it.

not sure how it would be seen as an intentional schtick.

Ys was amazing, it's a great album beginning to end and I get to futher my fantasy of having Lisa Simpson serenade me.

Exciting News from Naturalismo. As summarized by Pitchfork:

Joanna Newsom Debuts New Songs at Secret California Show

It's not too often that you get to hear about an artist playing a secret show that actually remains a secret. When Kanye West and Metallica showed up at SXSW, it was tough to get into either show since just about the entire town knew exactly where and when they'd set up shop. But when Joanna Newsom debuted about two hours' worth of new material this weekend, only about fifty people showed up. Somebody, at least, knows how to keep a secret.

According to Naturalismo, this past Saturday, Newsom played with Mariee Sioux at the Fernwood Resort in Big Sur, California. She played under a pseudonym, "The Beatles's". Devin Woolf from Naturalismo was at the show, and has a detailed account of it up here.

Woolf describes the show: "The makeup of her new songs combines the strong melodic presence of songs on The Milk-Eyed Mender with her continued instrumentational prowess and maturation beyond Ys. It was unclear how many of the songs covered in the course of the two and a half hour set would ever be recorded, but there was never a sour note or 'should be cut' moment to be heard. If anything a double album here would make perfect sense, and be one of the most enjoyable albums I've heard in ages."

According to Woolf, some of the songs stretched past 12 minutes, and Newsom played about a third of them on piano, with the rest on harp. Newsom's band played behind her, and the songs' arrangement included guitar, drum, banjo, and violin. She also played an encore of "Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie".

I don't buy it. Watching her sing you can almost see her forcing that squeal out of herself, which is a shame because she's a great songwriter and lyricist, maybe the best around right now.

Bumpage coincidence: my vinyl copy of this arrived yesterday.

gotta say this chick is at the very least intriguing in every way

We've already been over this. I fucked up and judged the album too quickly and too harshly, in knee-jerk reaction style. After repeated listens this was corrected.

I know dude. You bust enough balls around here for me to bust yours back. I do the same thing all of the time.

She's on one of the tracks on the lonely island album, "Ras Trent" maybe?

I've seen her live a couple times, I'll admit that on those first couple tours for Milk-Eyed Mender her voice was straining much like it does on that album. But during the Ys tour and the recent Chicago Symphony Orchestra show it's very obvious that she's taming her voice (or at least that shriek) way down. This is most obvious when she plays older songs like "Sadie".

I think her voice is pretty endearing. Especially on Ys, it makes me feel like I'm listening to a storyteller more so than a singer, which is appropriate for the content and length of the songs.

Listened to the first disc now. It's fucking great.

Oh yeah, I love the sound of her voice. I'm just saying I understand why some people would be put off by it during that first record/tour, but those people (my mother's one of them) should give her another chance, because it's not the same voice.

It doesn't quite make sense since I like Samberg and I'm not even a huge Joanna Newsom fan, but hearing that news somehow annoyed/depressed me. Maybe because when I listen to her music, I like picturing this:


and not THIS

i saw her play at the Sydney opera house and it was one of the best gigs i have seen
she played Y's from start to finish with the sydney symphony orchestra and then came out and did some stuff from milk eyed mender and then some new stuff
i think Y's is a fantastic record
it sounds amazing and the songs are brilliant
it is miles ahead of milk eyed mender

This is completely random, I know, but.
I am listening to Ys right now, still on "Emily," and I'm wondering:
What would sexual relations with this album playing be like?

Like, would it be automatic and uncontrollable sobbing? Does anyone here have any experience?

Yeah, random.

It's 3 in the morning and I'm single, so.

I listened to this for the first time last week, I think.

It's an incredible experience to listen to. Sex with it? Hmmm...not sure I'd really appropriate it with that...

I have to say, though, that its meandering balladry, whilst endearing at the beginning of the record, grows a tad tiresome by the fifth track...I just got to the point where I really wanted her to change the pace a little.

^I can agree with this. Something closer to Milk Eyed Mender would have been appropriate near the end.