Bon Iver

Yoko Ono and Bon Iver to work on Flaming Lips album

Music Gossip

13 Jan 2012

The Flaming Lips are set to work with Yoko Ono and Bon Iver on their new album. The psychedelic rockers frontman Wayne Coyne has named a list of stars who will appear on their upcoming release - expected for April - including Nick Cave and Edward…

Bon Iver announces UK tour and releases free download single

Download 'Calgary' from forthcoming second album

17 May 2011

Justin Vernon returns to the UK for his first live dates since 2009. His eponymously titled second album is release on 4AD on June 20th 2011 Tickets for the Edinburgh date go on sale from 9am Fri 20 May.

Elbow, Paul Weller and Bon Iver to headline Latitude

Music Gossip

6 Mar 2012

Elbow, Paul Weller and Bon Iver will headline Latitude Festival 2012. The Grammy award-winning folk band will take to the stage for their only UK festival appearance this year on Friday July 13, with the 'One Day Like This' hitmakers - who have…

Bon Iver - Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Sat 22 Oct 2011

Justin Vernon's large ensemble fails to capture the albums' spare beauty

16 Nov 2011

To a long since sold-out crowd of ardent devotees, Justin Vernon takes the stage – after the audience impatiently chats through support act Kathleen Edwards’ countrified indie folk. (Vernon helped out with production and instrumental duties on Edwards…

Bon Iver set for 2011 UK tour

The collaboration-friendly indie-folk icon is still strongest on his own two feet

21 Oct 2011

‘Profit, profit, nigga I got it, everybody know I’m a motherfucking monster.’ Of all that Justin ‘Bon Iver’ Vernon might have done next following the huge critical acclaim and popular devotion for his exquisite 2008 debut album For Emma, Forever Ago…

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Follow-up to much-revered debut an warmer, bigger, more welcoming beast

13 Jun 2011

(4AD) Everyone is better-off with a little soft-rock in their lives. Alt-smooth indie supergroup Gayngs proved that assertion in 2010, when their nostalgic-pop album, Relayted, topped many end-of-year polls. One of that band’s most prominent members…

Gayngs - Relayted

12 May 2010

(Jagjaguwar) If this record was human you’d be on your back by now. The debut release from 25-strong US indie supergroup Gayngs is truly, hedonistically smooth – and seductive to the point of comedy. Helmed by producer Ryan Olson and starring…

Best of a decade: Music

2 Dec 2009

Arcade Fire – Funeral, The Knife – Silent Shout, Radiohead – Kid A, Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago, The White Stripes – White Blood Cells, Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand, Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion, Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever To…

The Twilight Saga: New Moon soundtrack

29 Oct 2009

(Atlantic) They could stamp any old trash with the Twilight brand and have a hit, which is why the soundtrack for the second film in the rabidly followed teen vampire series is such a lovely surprise. Eschewing the gothic histrionics of the books…

Various - Rough Trade Shop: Counter Culture 08

22 Jan 2009

MOST THINGS In today’s, blog-a-minute, ‘download my free songs!’, digital overload age, there is such a thing as too much information. Therefore, it takes people like those at Rough Trade Shop (and of course the discerning critic types at The List…

Songs of the Year 2008

11 Dec 2008

‘Skinny Love’ Bon Iver One man’s heartbreak becomes our joy from the album of the year. ‘Like the Rest of Us’ Atmosphere The leftfield dwelling purists may sneer but this is beguiling, introspective hip hop brilliance. ‘Run Run’ Those Dancing Days…

Bon Iver - Lone justice

4 Sep 2008

The breathtaking debut album from Bon Iver is evidence that isolation can produce something truly special. Colin McKean revels in this most singular of musical visions Disillusioned and frustrated by the disintegration of DeYarmond Edison, the band…

Singles and downloads

4 Sep 2008

Let’s get any hating out the way first. The Pussycat Dolls claim ‘When I Grow Up’ (Interscope) * is a tongue-in-cheek look at attention-seekin', dollar-sniffin', 'boobie' flashin' wannabes, but if there's a punchline to their melody-free joke, the girls…

Also Released - Music

8 May 2008

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (4AD) This was recorded in a remote cabin in the wilds of Wisconsin and it sounds like it. A gloriously minimal and spectral solo debut from Justin Vernon. Jack Marchment - Corydon and Manjrekar (Benbecula) Inspired…