Dec
01
2011
2011 isn’t quite over just yet, but I’m already set on what I feel are the best albums of the year – at least as far as my top picks go. Rather than attempt to rank albums 1-50 or 1-100 or even 1-25 like you’ll find most everyone else doing, I thought I’d just share …
Jun
29
2011
Pictured: Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon I was hoping to get this out there by the time we reached the halfway mark of the year, but it’s not like we’re far from that point anyways. Rather than beat myself into the ground trying to make an actual numbered list, I thought I’d just present my favorite …
Nov
16
2009
Bon Iver Blood Bank EP Released January 20th on Jagjaguwar Records I can’t press Justin Vernon and Bon Iver enough. They’re one of my favorite musical discoveries over the past couple years, and they’re simply brilliant on record, and even better live. While most of the songs on their debut, For Emma, Forever Ago, …
Jun
22
2009
When 3:20 pm rolled around on Saturday, June 13, I wasn’t exactly ready to leave the show I was watching on the Which Stage – the legendary Booker T. Jones (as in Booker T. & the M.G.’s) was playing with the Drive-By Truckers. Take the raw and dirty, Southern rock of the Truckers, add Booker’s signature sound …
Feb
27
2009
Bon Iver is the name of indie-folk, singer-songwriter Justin Vernon’s band. The name Bon Iver is a corruption of the French “bon hiver”, meaning “good winter.” Their 2007 debut, the independent release, “For Emma, Forever Ago”, came after the breakup of not only Vernon and his girlfriend, but his band, DeYarmond Edison, as well, who …