Andy Samberg & Joanna Newsom are still together! (Comedy Awards)

Here they are at the Comedy Awards this week!

Thanks to Rayanna Janae for the scoop!

Are you happy, surprised, or frustrated by this news?

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Jennifer Aniston is manhunting Andy Samberg?

What? This doesn't feel very credible at all. What's the deal?



So Jennifer is in New York? Was she seen with Andy Samberg? Well Andy is linked to an upcoming Adam Sandler movie (I Hate You, Dad) and Jennifer was just in an Adam Sandler movie (Just Go With It), so perhaps they were in that same circle. She's sold her $42 million house in CA and is shopping for a 2,950 square-foot penthouse in Manhattan. I could believe that. No reason to own a huge house without a family. But this article is comparing her to Sex in the City and Friends? Come on. Get real. So she moves; big deal.

Also, it's been awhile since we've had confirmation that Andy and Joanna Newsom are still together (but it's always safer to assume they are still together). So there's a remote possibility that this is legit.

However, just mentioning Andy's name on a list of three people is hardly factual information. Where were they seen together? Why does this reporter think she might be interested in Andy (or vice versa)?

And thanks to Anony for this scoop!

Anyway, read the article for yourself...

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[Jennifer Aniston] recently cut her trademark long blond hair into a shorter, "sleek bob," and that's not the only change she's making in her life. She's also moving. The former Friends star has put her home in Beverly Hills up for sale and she's condo hunting in New York City...

The super-successful actress has listed her former home for an unbelievable $42 million and focused her attention on a 2,950-square-foot, four-bedroom, four-and-a-half bath Manhattan penthouse. And she's already set her sights on "a few good men - including Jets football quarterback Mark Sanchez, Saturday Night Live star Andy Samberg and actor Jason Lewis...

However, the prospective new penthouse comes equipped with a nursery...

This excerpt above removes the gossip-talk from this original article:
http://celebs.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474979119744
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Andy Samberg at a Joanna Newsom concert

Yup, they're still together.

From Anony:

Andy was seen at another Joanna concert today. Heres a pic you cant really see his face...

See it bigger here:

http://twitpic.com/2ala2a

Anony also said:

I'm seeing her in concert on Monday and if he isnt there i will be verryyyy dissapointed! haha

Thanks Anony!


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Andy Samberg is not going out with Rachel Bilson

Recent rumours that actress Rachel Bilson has been seeing Saturday Night Live performer Andy Samberg are not true, according to reports.

The OC star, 28, was rumoured to be “getting close” to Samberg, 31, with reports claiming that the pair were having fun hanging out together.

A US magazine also claimed that Samberg had split from his musician girlfriend Joanna Newsom.

But a rep for Samberg told GossipCop.com that he is still with Newsom and is not romantically involved with Bilson.

From:
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article_1572385.php/Rachel-Bilson-Romance-with-Andy-Samberg-rumours-not-true
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Thanks to Anony for the scoop!

What's interesting is that she raved about Andy to Cosmopolitan a few years ago, similar to how he raved to Paper Magazine about Joanna before they started dating.

Rachel said:

Now I think Andy Samberg is so cute. He's on Saturday Night Live — the nice Jewish guy.

Read more of Rachel's interview here:
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/celebrity/exclusive/Rachel-Bilson-3
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Andy Samberg is still dating Joanna Newsom!

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?uestlove gets Joanna Newsom on his record - Andy Samberg the matchmaker?

So in some bizarre way, Andy Samberg is sort of the matchmaker to get his girlfriend, Joanna Newsom on ?uesstlove's record. Check it out...



Roots drummer, producer and musical director Amir "?uestlove" Thompson is an inveterate multitasker...

As the house band on 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon,' the Roots have found themselves working with everyone from Paul Simon to Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain. The band's new release, 'How I Got Over,' features the kind of musicians you'd expect to find on indie-loving blogs, not a hip-hop album...

Singer/harpist Joanna Newsom delivers the hook on 'Right On.'

As ?uestlove tells Spinner, their presence on the album "wasn't manipulative, ... It just so happened that they all were on the show." It also turns out the Roots work their Fallon day-jobs in the same building as Newsom's boyfriend, 'Saturday Night Live' star Andy Samberg. "She's always around," ?uestlove says. "I met them at a Dirty Projectors concert. I saw the Dirty Projectors for the first time [on the Fallon Show], became a massive fan and then put that video clip of them in my dressing room singing on the net. They said, 'Come to our show next week.' I went, and then I met Joanna Newsom and Andy there and it's like, 'Oh, be on our record.'"

Read the rest:
http://www.spinner.com/2010/06/30/roots-questlove-amy-winehouse-how-i-got-over/

Andy's still dating Joanna Newsom. =^)

Also, It Builds Character informed us:

Questlove... sampled Joanna Newsom's song "The Book of Right On" which is on her first album. She didn't do a special recording.

Thanks IBC!

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Emily spotted Andy Samberg at a Joanna Newsom concert on Saturday

(First image not related.)

Andy Samberg at the Joanna Newsom show in Chicago (at the Vic Theatre)...

Emily said:

I saw Andy in one of the VIP balconies very briefly, wearing a grey hoodie and glasses. I didn't think it could possibly be him since it was a saturday night, but lo and behold, SNL was a rerun.

So it was the Chicogo concert on Saturday, 4/3.

And here's an article about it...

"The audience, too, loved it (enough for some people to bring flowers). And, Andy Samberg, I’m pretty sure, loved it. Now, there’s a guy with a big bouquet of flowers. Not to sound like that blond surfer dude on “TMZ,” but I caught Andy on the balcony with like, six dozen roses and a cup of coffee.
I’m guessing the coffee was for him."

From:
http://www.indierockreviews.com/2010/04/joanna-newsom-at-the-vic-theatre-%E2%80%93chicago-il/

Thanks Emily!

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Is Joanna Newsom's latest album a two-hour love letter to Andy Samberg?

I had a feeling that Joanna Newsom was up to something big. However, I definitely wouldn’t have guessed that she would go and release a three disc album, two hour album. Joanna Newsom’s first album, The Milk-Eyed Mender, was a batch of exquisitely written and sometimes clumsily (though more often transcendently) performed pop songs, cute enough for the teenage girls to love and literate enough for bearded college students to write theses on. Two years later Joanna, made a big splash with her five song, nearly hour long Ys, on which her songs took on new orchestral arrangements, became mystical and weird in that “Incredible-String-Band-meets-Van-Dyke-Parks” (literally) way and taught listeners the differences amongst meteors, meteorites and meteoroids. She continues to evoke an abstract, ancient, American mythos on Have One On Me, an album that encompasses the styles of her first two records but also makes forays into some interesting new directions.

Have One On Me contains three six song discs, each that could stand alone on their own. The disc I listen to the most is the first. Although great, it contains impenetrably dense songs from start to finish. Have One On Me’s songs range from under two minutes in length to over eleven minutes. Disc one features “Good Intentions Paving Company,” and “Have One On Me,” perhaps the album’s best two tracks. Joanna Newsom composes great music, although for the first time, her writing is becoming a bit redundant.

If Ys sounded like it should have been recorded in a spectral barn in 1969, Have One On Me is pure 1971. There are progressions like the one at the end of “Jack Rabbits,” over which Newsom sings of “making love” that evoke melodies played on swampy, overdriven guitars. “Soft As Chalk” has a certain jaunt post-chorus—the part where she bellows “Lawlessness!”—that evokes a heavy, gothic country and western, before giving way to a lovely, sparse piano line straight out of the saloon. “Kingfisher” is probably objectively Newsom’s “Stairway to Heaven.” It lacks an guitar solo and any particularly great climax, but has melodic similarities to that epic rock standard, and prominently features presumably hobbit-manned pan flutes. “You and Me, Bess” is alternately jazzy and Beatles-esque and while not straying from what has become something of a stock Have One On Me chord change, features one of the albums most interestingly written vocal melodies.

Love pervades the album, which is funny considering that the lyrics are probably about the dude who wrote “Jizzed in My Pants.” The misty opening track, “Easy,” evokes a somewhat ghostly, desperate need for love. Against a string and flute arrangement that fits the song perfectly, Newsom croons as eerily as she ever has, “Speak my name, and I appear.” “Good Intentions Paving Company” is Joanna’s best “pop single” to date despite its seven minute length. Several Newsoms, multi-tracked a la “Peach, Plum, Pear,” sing loving melodies that warm the ears the way sunbeams are absorbed into skin. A groovy, syncopated percussion track invites the listener to bob the same way he would listening to yacht rock in his car on a June day. Joanna Newsom finds herself on a new journey, making good use of the hackneyed life-as-road metaphor. Her lyrics are smart and endearing. She remarks on the irony of asking a lover to open his heart to her when she “can’t even open a honey jar,” and just before a sweet flugelhorn jam, she sings: “I only want for you to pull over and hold me / Till I can’t remember my own name.”

“Have One On Me” starts out spare and contemplative but eventually builds and swells to strange character sketches. It includes a lot of spider imagery. The arrangement of the song is interesting because while the harp remains constant, other instruments come in and out like scenes of a slideshow. The song features fiddles, mandolins and other bluegrass instruments that ornament Newsom’s lyrics and harp-playing meticulously, but disappear as quickly as they come. The song peaks with a minor key bridge, highlighted with horns and strings and gives way to a coda of wordless, weaving vocalization that sticks to the mind like honey from a tightly sealed jar. At its best moments, Have One On Me proves Newsom still has great ideas, engaging melodies coiled up in her mind waiting to spring forward.



Not every song on Have One On Me is great. “Occidental” is a somber piano ballad whose familiar melody seems to have been lifted from somewhere else. Its lyrics are good, but it climaxes limply and doesn’t have any of the twists that refuse to allow longer songs, like the album’s title track, to drag. Songs like “No Provenance” are very pretty and pleasant to listen to but aren’t as engaging as Newsom’s older work. Most of the longer songs, the ones that continue on the same part for a long time, begin to drag. “Sawdust & Diamonds” from Ys spends most of its time on one, two-chord progression, but the song builds tension gorgeously and engagingly, which is unfortunately rare on Have One On Me. “Baby Birch” starts out dull and stays that way for about five full minutes. It sounds like a dustbowl era murder-ballad and oozes viscously until its stripped down arrangement finally begins to blossom into something equally somber but sublime. “Baby Birch” isn’t a terrible song. It has nice guitar line when it hits its groove and its Asian-sounding coda is one of the album’s most memorable. It also probably features the album’s best percussion, think Paul McCartney’s drums at the end of “Dear Prudence,” but in slow motion and furious. It’s somewhat distressing to hear Joanna Newsom treading into Gillian Welch territory. Newsom taps into a certain weird American-ness, often. However, to hear her reduced to Americana would be depressing and almost does before the climax of this epic track.

The best slow song is “Going to California,” on which Newsom declares that her heart “became a drunken rut.” The pace is slow, but the writing (again fixated on the subject of love, this time from a melancholic perspective) is superior to many songs. She writes: “I wait all night, for you in California / Watching the fox pick off my goldfish / From their sorry, golden state / And I am no longer / Afraid of anything / Save the life that, here, awaits.” The orchestral swell of its climax and almost raucous shouts of “Caw, caw, caw” are weird and cathartic in a way that is distinctly Newsom’s own. A great line that pops up on one of the more lackluster songs is on “Ribbon Bows.” The line goes: “Sweet appraising eye of the dog / Blink once if God / Blink twice if no God.”

I haven’t penetrated to the very core of Have One On Me and would probably have written a much more in depth review if I had a year to write it. However, we all know about the importance of Kairos, and I’ve already pushed this back a bit. Ultimately Have One On Me is a good album with some fantastic songs. Alas, it falls prey to the trappings of being two hours and eighteen tracks long. It is hard to get through in one sitting because its tracks are pretty similar and very long, although I imagine it would score a nice night house-sitting with a lover and a bottle of wine. Songs like “Go Long” are good but almost indistinguishable at times from other songs on the album. Its highs are very high, but in the end, Have One On Me held itself back as a result of its excess.

From:
http://www.sbpress.com/2010/03/a-two-hour-love-letter-to-andy-samberg/comment-page-1/

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