On this Friday's episode of Portlandia, Joanna Newsom shows up in a sketch. And you don't actually have to wait until then to watch it; it's below. In said sketch, Newsom plays part of a group of…   Read Story »

Sub Pop has just published a massive compendiums of year-end lists from its bands on the label's website. Some of those top-10 lists cover the year's music, but just as many of them just list out…   Read Story »

Two nights ago in Milan, Italy's Teatro Smeraldo, Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold joined the evening's opener, Portland-based Rough Trade singer-songwriter Alela Diane, for a pretty pass at Jackson…   Read Story »

Joanna Newsom and Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold don't exactly seem like the physical type, but you need some sort of arm-strength to keep playing harp for hours on end, just like you need some…   Read Story »

Last night in Seattle, Fleet Foxes played a big hometown show at the Paramount, and frontman Robin Pecknold took the opportunity to try out a new solo-acoustic song that seems to be called "August…   Read Story »

After watching the recently unearthed footage of Arcade Fire playing a house party in 2002 and a 17-year-old Robin Pecknold covering Radiohead and Simon & Garfunkel, I thought it would be fun to…   Read Story »

The March edition of our Monthly Mix series runs the gamut from South London mixtape hip-hop, to lady-baiting R&B, pop, to lady-fronted arpeggiated-vocal ukulele/sax funk. Or at least it runs that…   Read Story »

When Robin Pecknold has released solo material in the past it's been under his White Antelope moniker. Today's sneak-released three-song EP is credited simply to Robin Pecknold, tweeted from his…   Read Story »

Robin Pecknold continues opening shows for Joanna Newsom. The Fleet Foxes head performed some new songs during his 8/4 set at Seattle's Moore Theater. He's very likely done the tracks elsewhere on…   Read Story »

Photos of a sold-out show on Saturday in L.A. by Joanna Newsom (complete with standing ovation and a female would-be-stage-crasher blocked by security), with an opening set by an apologetic Robin…   Read Story »