Bon Iver and The Staves

Bon Iver set for 2011 UK tour

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

‘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…

Bon Iver - Bon Iver

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

(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…

Bon Iver announces UK tour and releases free download single

Download 'Calgary' from forthcoming second album

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.

Bon Iver - Lone justice

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…

List picks - Music

American Music Club, Silver Apples, Meshuggah, Calexico, Stray Cats, Idlewild, Bon Iver, Islay Jazz Festival

Iron & Wine

ALT.COUNTRY Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, Mon 29 Oct It would be difficult to find a location more at odds with the music of Sam Beam than the London hotel lobby I meet him in. Swanky, super modern and decked out in stark white clinical decor and…