Video: Picture - Joanna Newsom and Robin Pecknold (Kid Rock/Sheryl Crow Cover)

Hey, everyone!  Lots of stuff for you, this week.  As you might have noticed, I'm steadily working my way through the mailbag.  There's lots more great stuff in there, which I hope you'll see in the next few days.  The really good, slightly-longer-term news is that my dissertation now has a planned submission date.  So, one day - in the not-too-distant future - I'll be able to spend lots more time developing some of these tidbits into articles.  But until that day comes, I leave you with the best of this week's bookmarks... First [...]

G5 No, I don’t know why Joanna Newsom and Robin Pecknold covered a Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow collaboration either.  I wish they’d played a different bad “Picture” pop song .  (Seriously, click through and check out that video. It’s TERRIBLE.) Paul Rudd was an awesome bar/bat mitzvah DJ (kinda music related… we’ll allow it) Good news, bros and bro-ettes: Wavves are NOT getting sued by Disney .  My worries about how the band would keep themselves in that ugly clothing have been alleviated. [...]

Nuestra doncella folk de pop barroco, arpa afinada y lengua afilada , Joanna Newsom , se encuentra haciendo una gira por los Estados Unidos para promocionar su último álbum de estudio, Have One On Me . Hoy nos toca enterarnos que, teniendo como invitado especial a Robin Pecknold , el vocalista de los Fleet Foxes , realizó un cover del hit country "Picture" de Kid Rock y Sheryl Crowl en el concierto que realizó anoche en Oakland ante el animado público de un teatro. Un [...]

It's true: at a recent show in Oakland, Joanna Newsom and Robin Pecknold (lead singer of Fleet Foxes) continued the time-honored tradition of indie rockers covering mainstream pop hits by... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .

Joanna Newsom in Michigan in March ( more by Graeme Flegenheimer ) [ Joanna Newsom ] opened her 75-minute set with four songs from her ambitious recent full-length, "Have One on Me," before weaving in older titles from her previous two albums, "Ys," from 2006 (which featured arrangements by Van Dyke Parks), and her infectious 2004 debut, "The Milk-Eyed Mender." It was delivered via a singing voice that's as pure is it is dynamic, one that has matured from an at-times grating shriek early in her career into an instrument able to offer a smooth, [...]