Joana Newsom's Song 'Divers'

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Singer/songwriter/harpist Joana Newsom has just announced that a video for her song "Divers" will be premiering in the coming weeks, but it will be released in a rather unorthodox platform. The title track for her upcoming album (to be released October 23 through Drag City), Divers will be giving an exclusively theatrical release in America from October 16-22, and also in the UK on October 27th. It will primarily screen at theaters renowned for showing independent and art house films, such as the IFC Center in New York City.

The video is directed by American filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood), who featured Newsom heavily in his last film, Inherent Vice. Little is known about the video's contents, but Anderson

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