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I give this a big thumbs up. Bon Iver's story is amazing, but aside from that, his entire album is absolutely solid. It will be playing for years and years... probably stuff that I will be playing as my kids grow up (I don't have kids). I was fortunate enough to have seen Bon Iver at the Independent in San Francisco. Unfortunately, the crowd cleared out after him and the headliners that night (who had been switching off headlining with Bon iver) just had a bored, chat... MORE

Bon Iver uploaded their new video with a detailed description of the circumstances surrounding its filming. The video is for "The Wolves (Act I & II)" from For Emma, Forever Ago and it was directed by Matt Amato for The Masses and filmed on location in Fall Creek, Wisconsin in January. It documents a beautiful ritual for a departed friend. Here is the video, followed by loads more details directly from Bon Iver: "The Wolves (Act I & II)" by Bon Iver:

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Justin Vernon hid out in Wisconsin for a couple months meaning to do nothing but ended up cutting a great record. All sung in falsetto is the best record of the year so far. gives a very unique and folky feeling. Please check him out! www.myspace.com/boniver

There is something mysterious about seeing a telephone line slung across acres of snow fields in February. The staggered black line strung out, sagging like a mule’s saddled back, the hundred thousand voices weighing through the weaves of tiny wires, nearly touching one another but never being known until they empty into someone’s ear on the other end. I wonder what the voices would look like if that cable split in half? Would they spill out like strings of water held in p... MORE

Today is the day. I'm going to make a pledge. With my right arm up in the air (seriously I'm only typing with my left hand), I swear that I will officially put my current "Sad Bastard" ("High Fidelity" reference) listening habits behind me. It's going to be hard. I liken it to keeping an alcoholic out of a bar, or a gambler away from the Racetrack. I will need the help of all Moggers. I'm counting on you to help me stay on the right path. As long as the music is the... MORE

I am really liking what I am hearing. The whole album is solid. I feel like i should go spend a winter in a cabin now if it will help me make music like this.

Are you having a good winter? Justin Vernon (who named his musical project "good winter" in French) is...with the surprise success of his new album For Emma, Forever Ago Here's my interview with Justin Vernon of Bon Iver which was posted today at Popmatters. Isolation Songs: An Interview with Bon Iver's Justin Vernon Bon Iver's Justin Vernon holed up in the north Wisconsin woods to try to get his life and his music back on track ... and, in the process, almost by acc... MORE

Isolation and creativity is a marriage known to artists for centuries. From Rainer Maria Rilke, who holed himself up in a castle on the Adriatic to produce his Duino Elegies, to The Bachelorette, the Kiwi keyboardist who shut herself in a small cabin on the coast of New Zealand's north island; artists know that removing yourself from civilization for months on end leads to inspiration and, sometimes, poetry. Without distractions taking up all the thinking space, one's imag... MORE

i can't stop listening to this. and not in that casual "oh, this song is really rad and i listen to it a little more than i've been listening to everything else", but an "i've been listening to this nonstop for a few weeks and i may very well be going insane" way. which says quite a bit for bon iver, but not very much for me. ah, insanity.

My latest, greatest obsession, Bon Iver and their song 'Skinny Love'...its beautifully understated and a little haunting I think...a gorgeous tune

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Justin Vernon reportedly made his new album called For Emma, Forever Ago and out early February on Jagjaguwar, in near total isolation, in a remote cabin in northern Wisconsin, surrounded by snow and trees. I've been listening to it late at night mostly, and it's really wonderful, high and ghostly and filled with otherworldly harmonies, folky maybe, but also somehow like choral church music. I'm putting up the free mp3, "Skinny Love." there's more at MySpace (http://www... MORE

I am. It's true.And unexpected. I'm almost a little annoyed with myself at the over-abundance of slightly depressing, down-tempo song selections I've been making as of late. But? Oh well? One of my favorite tracks from one of the softest, yet overwhelmingly emotional albums I've heard in a very long time. I think it has something to do with the change of seasons. P.S. Cheers to overreacting! Which I did, to an extreme extent, yesterday. Ain't we all just so e... MORE

Category: Soft, Acoustic, Folk, BeardsRating: 9.4 Maybe it's the air, the weather, the cold... maybe it's something internal, some deep broken piece that never quite healed right... regardless, the newest album from Bon Iver hits like a quiet, gentle punch to the heart. Honestly, without reservation, as far as acoustic, high-pitched, threadbare folk goes - this is the best new song i've heard all year. I don't want to say any more. get on some headphones and listen... MORE