Bon Iver releases QUALITY “Blood Bank” mp3

[soundscape] weight

photo: ‘weight’ song: bon iver — “flume” [stream only] | buy “character — like a photograph — develops in darkness.” – yousuf karsh i was twenty one, living in colorado, platinum blonde. i was also heartbroken. i was dating a really wonderful person. a person i love to this day. i was in love with [...] [...]

Lee

[MP3] S. Carey: “In The Stream”

S. Carey, he of Bon Iver drummer fame and previously salivated-over tune, “In The Dirt”, released a new MP3 today, titled “In The Stream” from his forthcoming full-length, All We Grow. Piano and hushed vocals have become Carey’s strong suit (drums? psshhh), and he employs them to near perfection on “In The Stream”. The ethereal [...] [...]

Lee

[MP3 + Video] Justin Vernon covers Tom Petty

Thanks to Joe from Each Note Secure, we have video of Justin Vernon covering Tom Petty’s “Crawling Back To You” at Cincinnati’s MusicNOW 2010 festival. It’s a stirring rendition, complete with an (small) orchestral backing and Vernon’s quivering voice. But his vocals actually take a back seat, as the violin and electric guitar are front [...] [...]

Jon

Phenomenal Video Saturday: Bon Iver does Okkervil River*

Don’t you just love when this happens? Back in, like, the dinosaur times (2008), Okkervil River released The Stand-Ins, and as a companion piece of sorts, had other bands cover the album’s songs. So they got Zykos for “On Tour with Zykos” and Ola Podrida for “Calling and Not Calling my Ex,” among others. Will [...] [...]

Jamie

Volcano Choir underwhelm, bore with Unmap

I was really excited for Volcano Choir’s debut album. I heard the lead single, “Island, IS,” and got pretty pumped to hear the whole album. So I listened to it. And again. And again. And I was confused. I was not pumped. I was not excited. I was just bored. So much . The band [...] [...]

Jon

Phenomenal video Saturday: Bon Iver

And we’re back with Phenomenal Video Saturday, where I scale back my ostensible weirdness and talk about music, without bad jokes! Check out last week’s PVS right over here. Today I have for you all a video you may have actually seen when it first came out at the end of 2008: it’s another performance [...] [...]

Jamie

[MP3] Bon Iver’s side project, Volcano Choir, release “Island, IS”

Bon Iver is known to be all artistic and awesome and junk, and so an artistic side project would of course be the way to go, right? Right. That’s exactly right. Volcano Choir is made of Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and Chicago’s own Collections of Colonies of Bees. The material was recorded before Bon Iver’s [...] [...]

Lee

That other album coming out May 26…

In what could be the most ill-advised marketing move of all time, Sarah Siskind will be releasing her newest album, Say It Louder, on May 26 (though it will be available through iTunes today). Hmm, what else is dropping that day? Eh, not too much. Only the most anticipated albums of the year in the [...] [...]

Lee

2009 Bonnaroo Lineup Announced

Not to be outdone by Coachella, Bonnaroo, that other music festival, has released their lineup of fantastic music. Here are some highlights; be sure to check the full listing on the official website. In bold are artists we have blogged about. Bruce Springstreen and the E Street Band Phish (2 shows) Beastie Boys Wilco The [...] [...]

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