Posts tagged with Bon Iver
November 24, 2011 | Cool Websites | by Jacob Stack |
This is one of my favourite websites. It’s French, so it can be tricky to find your way about, but it is totally worth it once you do. Your favourite bands, as you’ve never or rarely seen them, as well as what will be your new favourites. Beautifully captured by French film maker Vincent Moon, the musicians play acoustic sessions on quiet streets, on busses, under the Eiffel Tower. Arcade Fire, The Shins, Beirut, Fleetfoxes, Bon Iver, to name only a few from a huge list.
October 31, 2011 | New Music | 
by Samuel Birtwistle |
Volcano Choir is a collaboration between Justin Vernon of Bon Iver fame, Collections of Colonies of Bees, and Pele, and showcasing hypnotic driving rhythms coupled with Vernon’s soaring voice over the dainty post-rock indie twiddlings of the other bands.
August 31, 2011 | Video | by Contributions |
I made this short fan video for Bon Iver’s new single Holocene while road tripping with my little brother on the South Island of New Zealand this winter.
June 25, 2011 | New Music | 
by Paul Dempsey |
The final track on the new Bon Iver record made myself and the other three people in the car laugh out loud the first time it came on: the sexophone (yes), the tasty guitar licks, the Whitney Houston piano. But then you hear it a few more times and it’s pretty tops isn’t it? And then you hear people debating whether ‘he did it on purpose’ or whatever, but that really doesn’t matter now does it?
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July 16, 2010 | Video | by Francis Andrews 
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A nice little mash-up between the lovely Lykke Li and the ever-talented Bon Iver. The original is deeply intimate, whereas this rendition takes the song to the great outdoors and injects vibrant percussion, accompanied by the funky moves of Sweden’s finest export since Bjorn Borg’s mullet.
January 27, 2009 | Cool Websites | by Zolton |
Red hot Montreal band Land of Talk feature Elizabeth Powell, a former punk who got her start playing her own anti-rock anthems on the local scene of Guelph, Ontario, during her mid-teens. We got the inside word from her on the tunes that inspire Land of Talk’s own high energy frock and roll. The first track she propped was, drum roll please, Bon Iver’s hauntingly evocative, Re:Stacks: ‘This song changed my course, emotionally. I can’t tell you how, but it levelled me. Everyone I’ve played it for, or who has heard it, has had the same or similar reactions. This is a song I will listen to well into my twilight years’. Read the rest of Land Of Talk’s Secret Playlist.
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January 19, 2009 | New Music | by Francis Andrews |
The man who brought us the masterpiece, For Emma, Forever Ago, is soon to release the follow-up EP, Blood Bank. Given the staggering acclaim For Emma received, his approach to the release must have been a nervous one, weighed down by the expectations of an entire music industry and its league of followers. Blood Bank is no disappointment, though: he calls it a ‘palette cleanser’ after For Emma, and it continues its themes of wintery isolation and introspection. The harmonies on tracks like Beach Baby are beautiful, and the production equally exquisite.
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Nothing makes me more vexed than an ungrateful driver who does not wave after you’ve let them in front of you on the road. I’m proud to say I’m a waver. Proclaimed do-gooder Cody believes his illuminated vehicle signs will result in friendlier roads and highways. Less fingers and more smiles, to be precise.
It’s a grey day today, and James Finlay’s all-grey ‘existential webcomic‘ about a robot trying to transcend binary logic seems strangely fitting.
If animated wall drawings of severed heads and insect men ejecting their brains from their craniums is what people produce when they have too much time on their hands, then we should do their laundry for them and cook them dinner so they’ll have even more time on their hands.
Swedish city Gothenburg faces a challenge comparable in size with the industrial revolution: to become a sustainable city. The Kjellgren Kaminsky architectural firm, in collaboration with a team of local volunteers, have created a vision for a sustainable Gothenburg in fifty years time. Read more
I bought BibliOdyssey [by PK, published by Fuel] yesterday at New York’s PS1 Bookstore and was surprised to find out that this old-fashioned book (archival images from old books) was actually based on the blog, BibliOdyssey. Read more
How can you not love a band called ¡Apeshit!? Their name says it all. I got to catch these guys tour at a warehouse in Bed-Stuy the other night as they were capping off their most recent tour, and even though there were only 20 or so people in the audience by the time they went on, their set was absolutely epic, culminating in frontman Pat Berran being hoisted up and subsequently dropped by the drunken, sweaty, and heavily tattooed crowd. If you love fast, spastic, intensely brutal punk, this band will make you crap your pants.
Tarot cards, folk music, Charles Manson, ballet, freaks and geeks, and Patty Hearst can all take responsibility for being some of the inspiration’s behind the Australian fashion label, Lover. It’s all too clever and witty to ignore. Each collection adheres to a specific narrative and a central character. Read more
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Cookie Boy’s creative cookie designs
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Communication prosthesis by Sascha Nordmeyer
This ‘communication prosthesis’ by designer Sascha Nordmeyer is hilarious and awesome. I want to wear one to a job interview.
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