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Bon Iver have announced an Australian leg for their current world tour, making up for a cancelled run of dates from last year.The Justin Vernon-fronted act were initially scheduled to tour Australia in June of 2020; however, that run was pushed back by nine months when the COVID-19 pandemic began to take hold. The tour was then due to start in March 2021 – with Gordi and Stella Donnelly confirmed as support acts – but it was ultimately cancelled in November 2020 with the band “look[ing] forward to safer days ahead”.Today (August 24), six Australian dates have been confirmed for the first quarter of 2023.

The National have released their surprise new album ‘Laugh Track‘. Check it out below.Announced at the weekend at the band’s own Homecoming Festival, the band’s ninth album comes in quick succession off the back of April’s acclaimed ‘First Two Pages of Frankenstein’.

anything and everything posted by Joe Alwyn, …basically anyone Taylor has ever made eye contact with. So, naturally, when Swift's ex Alwyn, , returned to Instagram for the first time since their split, they went looking for clues in his pics. And to be honest, I don't know what to make of it!Let's start with the facts.

Pitchfork Music Festival is returning to Chicago’s Union Park for three full days of indie rock, folk, pop, Hip-Hop and everything in between.Occupying the top spots on this year’s bill are Radiohead side project The Smile, folk star turned electro wunderkind Bon Iver, Killer Mike aka half of Run The Jewels, Animal Collective member Panda Bear and folksy “it” group Big Thief.They’ll be joined by industry darlings Perfume Genius, Alvvays, King Krule, JPEGMAFIA and Weyes Blood.Julia Jacklin, Snail Mail, Kelela, Youth Lagoon and Koffee are also set to perform.Basically, it’s like your Spotify “For You” playlist decided to all meet one weekend and throw a festival.Most importantly, tickets are still available for the finely curated musical extravaganza.At the time of publication, three-day general admission passes can be purchased for as low as $199 before fees on Vivid Seats.Single-day passes start at $152 before fees.Want to hit the coolest festival around but need a bit more info?Keep scrolling.We’ve got everything you need to know and more about the Pitchfork Music Festival below.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.A breakdown of all the best single and multi-day pass prices can be found right here:(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time.

Bon Iver bandleader Justin Vernon has shared ‘Hazelton’, a solo song he recorded between 2005 and 2006 that later served as a starting point for ‘Holocene’, a track from Bon Iver’s self-titled 2011 album.‘Hazelton’ and another song from that era, ‘Liner’, were originally released by Vernon on a small run of handmade CD-Rs in the mid-2000s, while he was still in his previous band, DeYarmond Edison.The two tracks were released on streaming platforms earlier this week. Both will appear on a comprehensive DeYarmond Edison box set titled ‘Epoch’ which is set to arrive later this year.

Kendrick Lamar and Baby Keem have surprised their fans with ‘The Hillbillies’, a new drill-inspired song which samples Bon Iver – check out the track below.The single is the pair’s tenth collaboration together, following the Grammy-winning ‘Family Ties’, 2021’s ‘Range Brothers’ and ‘Vent’.Lamar and Keem released ‘The Hillbillies’, along with a music video, yesterday (May 30). The new song samples the 2020 Bon Iver track ‘PDLIF’, which itself samples Alabaster dePlume’s ‘Visit Croatia’.‘The Hillbillies’ features UK drill-style hi-hats and elements of Jersey club bass, showing off Lamar and Keem’s conversational rapping styles in the process: “Shorty say she celibate, I’ma keep hopin’ (she’s not) / Shorty say she in love with me, I’ma be open (I’ll try).”In the song’s accompanying video, the Californian rappers are seen outside and inside Dodger Stadium in LA, as well as boarding a private jet and going on a shopping spree in London.The clip also features a cameo from Tyler, The Creator, who flashes a button to the camera at one point that reads “Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival 2023” before then pointing at Dodger Stadium.

Bon Iver have announced a fresh slate of tour dates in the United States this August.The band took to social media on March 27 to break the news, announcing a total of 12 shows. Justin Vernon and co.

Bon Iver have announced a 2023 summer tour of the United States. The 10-date August run will follow four Australian shows in March and eight European performances in June.

Bon Iver‘s Justin Vernon is launching his own monthly radio show – Song Chest Radio Hour will share its first edition this weekend.The first edition of Song Chest Radio Hour will air on the station on Sunday night (September 4) at 5pm CT (11pm BST), and will be available to listen to via Radio Milwaukee’s website and app.In a statement on the band’s Twitter account, the show – which will air on Radio Milwaukee – promises “to try and spread some love, joy, and acceptance through playing some songs you love and enjoy”.Find out all the details on Song Chest Radio Hour below.Tune in for the first episode this Sun 9/4/22 @ 5pm CT on @RadioMilwaukee; listen live or stream via the station’s app/website https://t.co/bpf5NMdiNa. Archived recordings available on MixCloud.

The National have today (August 22) released their emotive new single ‘Weird Goodbyes’, which features Bon Iver – you can listen to the song below.The track has been teased for some time, with the two artists finally confirming their collaboration last week.Speaking in a statement about ‘Weird Goodbyes’, The National’s Matt Berninger said: “It’s about letting go of the past and moving on, then later being overwhelmed by second thoughts.”On the process of making the single, the band’s Aaron Dessner added: “‘Weird Goodbyes’ was one of the first new songs we made. I was misusing drum machines, as usual, and stumbled onto this beat that got stuck in my head – it felt like something only Bryan could naturally play.

The National appear to be on the precipice of a new single release, as posters for a song titled ‘Weird Goodbyes’ (featuring Bon Iver) have begun to circulate.The band have been performing ‘Weird Goodbyes’ live, sans the guest spot from Bon Iver – which, presumably, will comprise some of its lyrics being sung by Justin Vernon – since late May. They played it for the first time in Pamplona, Spain on May 28 – the first National show to go down in three years – where it was billed on the setlist as ‘Bathwater (Mount Auburn)’. It’s been performed at seven show since, including this week’s headliner in Dillon, Colorado and at the Outlandia festival on Friday (August 12).

Bon Iver‘s premium sound system providers, L-Acoustics, have spoken to NME about the future of live sound and how they worked with Justin Vernon to design an immersive experience for fans.Before the recent show at New York City’s Forrest Hills stadium as part of the ‘Bon Iver, Bon Iver’ 10-year anniversary tour, Vernon first tapped L-Acoustics in 2018 to help create a panoramic soundscape of high-resolution audio for a gig at California’s Santa Barbara Bowl.Since then, the band have continued to work with the company – using their L-ISA Hyperreal sound technology – to create a deeper, direct auditory connection with fans.“It’s the 10 year anniversary of our album release, ‘Bon Iver, Bon Iver’, but it’s also a return after quarantine and COVID lockdown,” Vernon said of focusing on sound on their current tour. “We’ve gotten to be on the ground floor of something new,” he added, noting that “it’s not just two stacks of speakers in a room anymore.”The first time the Wisconsin indie band played their nuanced tracks via the L-ISA high-resolution speaker software, their engineer came up to Vernon after the performance and told him, “That’s the best show you’ve ever played, and it has a lot to do with that sound system.”“Overall, if we were to prioritise what we’re bringing to people out there [it’s] what goes in their ears,” the Bon Iver bandleader said of the importance of their sound quality.

Phoebe Bridgers has written a heartfelt essay for the 10th anniversary edition of Bon Iver‘s second album, ‘Bon Iver, Bon Iver’.Justin Vernon’s critically acclaimed LP, which featured the singles ‘Calgary’, ‘Holocene’, ‘Towers’ and ‘Beth/Rest’, was released in June 2011.To celebrate the anniversary, an expanded vinyl reissue of ‘Bon Iver, Bon Iver’ has now been released featuring five songs from Vernon and S. Carey’s AIR Studios session, which have never previously been released physically or through DSPs – you can buy the album here.The new version also features packaging which includes “a blind embossed version of the original cover art, and an intimate personal essay from long-time fan Phoebe Bridgers”.You can read Bridgers’ personal essay below:“You had such a big crush on that girl from camp you couldn’t even look at her,” she wrote. “But you knew a song she didn’t, so when she sat next to you on the bus you did something you would eventually learn to hate: the thing where you play a song for someone while staring at them, insisting with your eyes that they connect with it deeply and upon first listen.“Men would later do this to you with The Hold Steady and Smog and Bright Eyes and Feist and Elliott Smith.

Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) and Ethan Gruska have long admired each other's work, and they'd planned on capitalizing on their long-distance friendship just as the pandemic hit. “Around March 10th of 2020 Justin was supposed to come to L.A. and we were going to spend a few days making some stuff," Gruska remembers.

Bon Iver and Ethan Gruska – best known for his production work with Phoebe Bridgers – have shared a new joint single, ‘So Unimportant’.The track arrives as part of the singles series from Sylvan Esso’s Psychic Hotline label.Speaking of the collaboration’s genesis, Justin Vernon said: “My dear friend and great drummer, JT Bates, showed me the music of Ethan Gruska a number of years ago. It’s not often that something IMMEDIATELY grasps you where you stand like his music did. It only happens a few times in one’s life.“Ethan’s musicality and touch has magic in it.

Finneas has shared a cover of Bon Iver‘s 2008 track ‘Flume’ for Spotify Singles – check it out below.Billie Eilish‘s brother and collaborator released his debut album ‘Optimist’ last October, and the new two-track live release also features a special version of the album track ‘Medieval’ alongside the Bon Iver cover.In a statement, Finneas said he was “honoured to finally be able to get into the brand new and beautiful Spotify Studios to record these songs in these special arrangements”.Listen to Finneas cover Bon Iver’s ‘Flume’ and play ‘Medieval’ for Spotify Singles below.Reviewing Finneas’ debut solo album ‘Optimist’ upon its release last year, NME said: “He made his name producing and writing for his megastar sister Billie Eilish, and now it’s Finneas’ turn to step into the spotlight. ‘Optimist’ has been a long time coming – it follows a whopping 23 singles released since 2016 – and fully justifies why he’s become the industry’s producer du jour.“The record takes two paths to do that – classic, timeless pop songwriting and something more modern and cutting-edge.

Beverly Glenn-Copeland has released the highly anticipated Keyboard Fantasies Reimagined, a redux of his 1986 opus featuring new versions of five of the original album's six songs remixed by an all-star lineup of contemporary musicians. Album opener "Ever New" is reworked twice — once by Bon Iver and Flock of Dimes and later by Joseph Shabason and Thom Gill — in addition to a mid-album "transportation" of the track by Kelsey Lu that dropped in July as the new LP's lead single.

Bon Iver have shared a brand new song from Netflix‘s forthcoming movie Don’t Look Up.The track, which you can listen to below, was written by composer Nicholas Britell who also produced the song with frontman Justin Vernon.It is due to feature on the soundtrack to the Adam McKay movie, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence and follows Ariana Grande and Kid Cudi‘s recent collaborative track ‘Just Look Up’ for the movie.

Bon Iver have announced a series of US shows across the first half of 2022.The tour will see the band head across Texas, New York, Louisiana, Maine, Pennsylvania and a number of other US states between March and June. The US dates will precede Bon Iver’s rescheduled UK and European tour dates in October and November.The shows will be supported by either Dijon or Bonny Light Horseman.

Justin Vernon's beloved indie-rock project Bon Iver will hit the road next year for an extensive tour of North America. The 23-date trek will feature opening performances from Dijon, a Bon Iver acolyte who's got an album out this week that I'm very much looking forward to, and folk group Bonny Light Horseman.

Bon Iver released a new single called ‘PDLIF’ last year, and last night (October 22) they performed it live for the very first time – you can watch below.Justin Vernon and co. gave the track (short for ‘Please Don’t Live In Fear’) its live debut at first of two special shows at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California.The gigs have been put on in celebration of the 10th anniversary of their second album, ‘Bon Iver, Bon Iver’.

Bon Iver have shared live versions of ‘Beth/Rest’ and ‘Babys’, pulled from a fan-revered session they performed at London’s AIR Studios-owned Lyndhurst Hall.The session in question took place in 2011, the same year they minted their semi-eponymous sophomore album ‘Bon Iver, Bon Iver’.

Big Red Machine – comprised of Bon Iver‘s Justin Vernon and The National‘s Aaron Dessner – have officially released their second album, ‘How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?’, making a new collaboration with Taylor Swift available to stream.The heady and cerebral ‘Birch’ appears as track number four on the album, immediately preceding its other Swift collab, ‘Renegade’. That track was released as a single early last month, and wields a much more lively, pop-leaning energy.

Bon Iver have performed their first live show since March of 2020, headlining the Water Is Life festival in Minnesota to protest the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline.Held at the Bayfront Festival Park in Duluth, the event raised money for Honor The Earth, who aim to stop Canadian oil giant Enbridge from building their proposed Line 3 pipeline expansion.As per Stereogum, the pipeline – which if built, would transport tar-sand oil from Alberta to Wisconsin – “would cut across Minnesota, and it could cause

Bon Iver have announced a special limited edition 10th anniversary reissue of their second album, ‘Bon Iver, Bon Iver’.The album, which was released on June 17, 2011, is celebrated more than a decade later with a reissue on CD and vinyl. Five songs from Bon Iver’s 2012 AIR Studios session will feature on the reissue.

Big Red Machine have shared their latest single ‘Phoenix’, featuring Fleet Foxes and Anais Mitchell.The release by the band – comprised of Bon Iver‘s Justin Vernon and The National‘s Aaron Dessner – is their fourth from their upcoming album ‘How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?’ following ‘Renegade’, ‘The Ghost Of Cincinnati’ and ‘Latter Days’. You can listen to the track below.“‘Phoenix was one of the last songs we wrote for this record,” Dessner said of the song.

Bon Iver have postponed their UK and European tour dates until next year – check out the full schedule below.The shows, announced in support of the group’s fourth album ‘i, i’, were originally planned for 2020 but were pushed back to January 2021 due to the coronavirus crisis.

Big Red Machine and Taylor Swift have shared new song "Renegade." Big Red Machine is the collaborative project of Bon Iver's Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner of The National. Both artists contributed to Swift's 2020 album folklore.

Big Red Machine – comprised of Bon Iver‘s Justin Vernon and The National‘s Aaron Dessner – have unveiled their first collaboration with Taylor Swift for their new album, with new single ‘Renegade’‘Renegade’ features Swift’s voice most prominently, with Vernon occasionally providing backup vocals and Dessner handling production.It’s one of two collaborations between Big Red Machine and Swift set to appear on the band’s new album ‘How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?’, along with the

Big Red Machine have announced details of their second album, ‘How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?’, which will arrive this summer.The project from The National’s Aaron Dessner and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon will share the new record on August 27, via their own label 37d03d.‘How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?’ was recorded at Dessner’s Long Pond studio in upstate New York and will feature 15 songs.

Big Red Machine, the side project of Bon Iver‘s Justin Vernon and The National‘s Aaron Dessner, are teasing their return, with fans speculating that Taylor Swift is involved.The duo posted a teaser on Instagram for what appears to be a new project called ‘How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last’.They’ve also launched a website, howlongdoyouthinkitsgonnalast.com, which features similar artwork as the teaser and a clock counting down.A post shared by Big Red Machine (@bigredmachineadjv)Fans were

Bartees Strange has covered Bon Iver’s enduring hit ‘Skinny Love’, taken from the latter’s 2008 album ‘For Emma, Forever Ago’.Strange stays true to the song’s sparse arrangement in this performance on SiriusXMU, where he also played tracks from his own album ‘Live Forever’, which arrived last year and landed on NME‘s best debut albums of 2020 list.Watch his performance below.Bartees Strange discussed his decision to cover Bon Iver on social media.

Bon Iver‘s Justin Vernon has previewed a new song which features Taylor Swift – you can listen to the snippet of the track, believed to be by Vernon’s side project Big Red Machine, below.Vernon worked with Swift on her recent albums ‘Folklore’ and ‘Evermore’, both of which were released last year.While broadcasting on Instagram Live yesterday (April 13), Vernon shared a brief audio clip of an unreleased song featuring Swift’s vocals.“That’s the awesome Taylor one.

Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon is the latest musical act to join TikTok, mostly just to react to his favourite videos on the platform.On the handful of clips Vernon has posted so far, most of them show him duetting the works of others, showing a portion of his head as he silently watches on.#duet with @_devinnscott ♬ original sound – Chris Tubbs On his personal Twitter account, Vernon said the app makes him feel different about social media.“TikTok is extremely worth checking out.

Producer Jim-E Stack, whose credits include work with Charli XCX and Haim, has announced details of a solo album. Ephemera is due October 30 and today's announcement is accompanied by new song "Jeanie" featuring Bon Iver.

Chris Willman Music WriterTaylor Swift’s “Folklore” album may have been out for two weeks already, but that doesn’t mean that she can’t command the new-release news cycle 14 days later with a a single new song — the addition of a bonus track that was held back from the previous digital edition and is only hitting the streets now as part of the belatedly released CD package.Is “The Lakes” worth a deep dive all by itself, as the 17th track at the end of an already long tail? Yes, if you’re