​Q: How do you get to Carnegie Hall? A: Release a bewildering triple-CD and date Andy Samberg. It's frankly shocking it took so long, but everyone's favorite mega-baroque harpist hits the big time November 23. Two days before thanksgiving, just FYI. Tickets on sale Monday, link TBA. If her past shows are any indication you will be surrounded by Saturday Night Live cast members and, if you're really lucky, Lou Reed. If you're unlucky, he will sit at the end of your row and you'll be too scared to leave your seat and attempt to maneuver around him.

Jamming up north not too long ago.

Joanna Newsom
Town Hall
Thursday, March 18

"Did you say, 'Play faster?' she asks. "No! Fantastic!" replies one of several hundred rapt, lusting, audience-bound gentlemen. Thought so.

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​Courtesy Eric Harvey's fine Internet emporium Marathonpacks comes a remarkable clutch of screenshots from Ms. Newsom's recent appearance on Jimmy Fallon. To the left is my personal favorite: Call it "The De Niro." Mike Powell plums the "J-New" mystique here; she plays Town Hall nexts week. Tickets are not available.

Laughed at Selleck Waterfalls Sandwich. Chuckled, begrudgingly, at Nic Cage as Everyone. Even forwarded, against better judgment, Hipsters Who Have To Pee. But this, supposedly created by the folk-music blog Lord Franklin, is just too stupid: People Hugging the New Joanna Newsom Album. Now, "People Creepily Hugging Joanna Newsom"? Might just endorse that. [Read Mike Powell's piece on Have One on Me instead.]

​"Meet me in the Garden of Eden/Bring a friend/We are gonna have ourselves a time." Those who've spent an unsuccessful hour or so attempting to load Drag City's website to hear the first salvo from Joanna's alleged triple-album Have One on Me might find Stereogum a more convenient outpost at which to enjoy "81," which is a positively brisk and perfectly coherent four-minute lilt about gardening. Her voice is smooth and supple and sanded of all the power-yelping tics that initially made her such an acquired taste, for both good and ill. Gird up for three discs of this, and her March 18 show at Town Hall, for which you better already have tickets. (Note that this is the second song this year to mention 1981, joining Vampire Weekend's "Diplomat's Son." Trend!)