Joanna Newsom
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Joanna Newsom: The Milk-Eyed Mender (Drag City)
Review by Richard Gehr, The Village Voice, 4 May 2004
THE INCREDIBLE String Band's cryptic whimsy and Vashti Bunyan's beautiful balladry have quietly resurfaced in a bushel of great new bands, and especially so, it seems, ...
Joanna Newsom: Daydream Believer
Profile and Interview by Frances Morgan, Plan B, September 2004
Joanna Newsom is a new kind of folk heroine, plucking out spells and lullabies on 46 thrumming strings. ...
Joanna Newsom: Komedia, Brighton
Live Review by Everett True, Plan B, September 2004
THE GIRLS ARE chattering, talking in hushed whispers: "God, but she's so beautiful." Yeah, but it's a strange idyll of beauty, so Southern USA, so ...
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, November 2004
THE RESPONSE in the bar afterwards is split clearly along the gender lines. Robert and his male friend are in raptures. What a voice! Such ...
Joanna Newsom: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Live Review by Robert Sandall, Daily Telegraph, 5 April 2005
STRIDING PURPOSEFULLY past her Celtic harp and adjacent grand piano, Joanna Newsom opened her concert in typically forthright fashion. You either love her vocal mannerism ...
Profile and Interview by Chris Campion, Telegraph Magazine, September 2006
EVERY TIME Joanna Newsom walks into her house she has cause to reflect on the ways that nature encroaches on human affairs. "I think there ...
Joanna Newsom: The New Kate Bush?
Profile and Interview by Jude Rogers, The Word, November 2006
Angelic voice, radiant songs about "flickering wastelands" and childhood trips to Folk Summer Camp. Meet Joanna Newsom. ...
Review by Mike Barnes, bbc.co.uk, 14 November 2006
Her lyrics may be childlike at times but there's nothing mimsy or fey about them. ...
Joanna Newsom: It's a Thin Line…
Profile and Interview by James Medd, Esquire, December 2006
From Bush to Bjork, pop's greatest women have always divided audiences. Joanna Newsom knows it – and she doesn't care. ...
Overview by Jude Rogers, New Statesman, 11 December 2006
At the beginning of 2006, the prospects looked bleak for strong, idiosyncratic female pop acts. Jude Rogers meets three remarkable artists who changed all that ...
Joanna Newsom/Roy Harper/The Moore Brothers: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Jude Rogers, The Guardian, 1 October 2007
"CAN I GET the house lights on for a second?" Joanna Newsom rocks her harp on her heels, peers through her cameraphone at the raucous ...
Joanna Newsom: Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York NY
Live Review by Jason Gross, Harp, March 2008
IF ANYTHING, folkie singer/harpist Joanna Newsom's recent live shows with strings answer the question of whether her new music (featuring 10-15 minute songs) is ambitious ...
Joanna Newsom: Have One On Me (Drag City)
Review by Jim Irvin, The Word, 2010
IT'S NOT going out on any limbs to declare that Joanna Newsom's voice divides opinion. ...
The Conversation: Joanna Newsom
Interview by Sophie Heawood, The Times, 20 February 2010
She is a homebody who models for Armani, a harpist and possibly the best composer of her generation ...
Joanna Newsom: Have One On Me (Drag City)
Review by Dorian Lynskey, Q, April 2010
Avant-garde American folkstress's triple album. Not understated. ...
Joanna Newsom: After The Gold Rush
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, April 2010
In the remote Californian gold mining town she calls home, Uncut is granted a rare and exclusive audience with JOANNA NEWSOM. In the four years ...
Interview by Jude Rogers, The Observer, 25 April 2010
What's it like to have taught someone who went on to be a pop star? The teachers of Alex Turner, Leona Lewis, the xx and ...
Joanna Newsom: "Is It Time For A Glass Of Wine?"
Interview by Jude Rogers, The Guardian, 9 May 2010
She models for Armani, enjoys a game of baseball and likes to stay out drinking cocktails. Jude Rogers meets Joanna Newsom, the outspoken singer making ...
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 23 October 2015
"WHY IS THE PAIN of birth lighter borne than the pain of death?" asks Joanna Newsom on the title-track of her first release in five ...
Review by Mark Paytress, MOJO, November 2015
Freak-folk Cinderella follows acclaimed 2010 triple with an album of erudite pop and deepening moods. Mark Paytress takes the plunge. ...
Joanna Newsom: Eventim Apollo, W6
Live Review by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 12 November 2015
IT WOULD make sense to assume that it's because Joanna Newsom plays harp that audiences sit and watch her in silence. Her music may be ...
Joanna Newsom: Divers (Drag City)
Review by Jamie Atkins, Record Collector, December 2015
WHILE THE five years since the stunning triple album Have One On Me have seen Joanna Newsom expanding her horizons with acting roles and guest ...
Joanna Newsom: End of the Road festival, Wiltshire
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, September 2016
THERE AREN'T MANY contemporary musicians I'd stand in the pissing Wiltshire rain at summer's end to hear: I'm too ancient to care too much about ...
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