Joanna Newsom’s fanciful gothic folk sound has no real contemporary musical parallel. Neither does her brittle, sweetly shrill warble-perhaps the closest analogies are the eccentric singing styles of ...

Drag City is set to release the new album from Joanna Newsom, Ys (pronounced ‘eees’), available nationwide on November 14, 2006. It’s been two-and-a-half years since Joanna’s Drag City debut, The Milk ...

Ys, Joanna Newsom's second record, celebrates its 10th birthday this week, and if that seems incredible, there’s probably a good reason for that feeling. Coming at the end of 2006, the second half of ...

Music is infinite and at least for me should never be put in absolute terms. I have no favorite record because I have thousands upon thousands of hours of music that has equally elevated me. So I ...

First of all, let me just say that I've tried—very hard—to fall under the enchanting spell of Joanna Newsom, to which most of my friends and fellow music fans have succumbed. Though I wasn't a fan of ...

Joanna Newsom paid tribute to Steve Albini — the engineer on her acclaimed 2006 album Ys — during the singer’s set Friday at Utah’s Kilby Block Party. Stereogum reports that prior to Newsom’s ...

WHEN I first heard Ys, Joanna Newsom's critically anointed second album, I wasn't sure quite what she was trying to do. It wasn't anything like as cute or folky as her first album, The Milk-Eyed ...

THOSE WHO WERE CAPTIVATED by the innocence of Joanna Newsom's 2004 debut, "The Milk-Eyed Mender," might be surprised by the direction she has taken on its follow-up, "Ys." Where "Mender" showcased her ...

Joanna Newsom is a concert harpist, an unusual background for a singer-songwriter. Her debut album, The Milk-Eyed Mender, was widely praised in 2004. She won over many fans with her harp playing, but ...

The word “lavish” has been hanging around patiently in dictionaries and thesauri for years, just waiting to apply itself to the new Joanna Newsom CD. The eccentric harpist/poetess/songbird has seen ...

Joanna Newsom‘s label Drag City says, “Joanna’s album was the subject of rumor over the course of the last year, and we can now confirm the rumor: arrangements for the record were scored by Van Dyke ...