Earlier this year, we posted the collaboration between Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon with Poliça, known for their cool little hook on the letter c in their band name. Fortunately their music is cooler than the ç, and we heard the...
How nice of Poliça to name a song after Toronto’s famed film festival, Tiff. Or maybe someone called Tiffany. Either way, we get a one-off single featuring Justin Vernon of Bon Iver. Vernon shares singing duties with Poliça’s Channy Leaneagh,...
The weird get weirder. I feel the Flaming Lips have reached a point where they have to try quite hard to outdo their previous weirdness. They somehow often succeed. The video we have is for the Flaming Lips / Bon...
Hello Christmas List: Justin Vernon Designs Guitar Made from Whiskey Barrel We’ve featured some cool guitars on this site, from Super Mario ones, to the Millennium Falcon, and more. The latest in the line of cool guitars comes courtesy of...
Bon Iver’s 2011 self-titled release has all sorts of delayed reactions and releases associated with it. The album won them the Grammy for Best New Artist, despite it being their second album. And as 2012 draws to a close, the...
After a great performance from Radiohead in the studios of Austin City Limits, the show returned with Bon Iver this past weekend. Bon Iver played songs from their 2 studio albums, and Justin Vernon did his best to not talk...
2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees Announced Canadian rock legends, Rush, have finally been nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They are on the ballot along with acts such as Kraftwerk, N.W.A., Public Enemy, Joan...
Feist Wins 2012 Polaris Prize Last night, Toronto played host to the 2012 Polaris Prize, which recognizes the best Canadian album based on “artistic merit without regard to genre, sales history or label affiliation.” Oh, so this is why Justin...
Tattoo Tales Part 1: Justin Vernon from Bon Iver Justin Vernon really likes Northern Exposure. His band, Bon Iver, is named after a line from the TV show. His latest crush on the show comes via the form of a...
Check out Bon Iver and Radiohead on Austin City Limits Both Radiohead and Bon Iver stopped by Austin City Limits earlier this year to tape a segment for the legendary show. A behind the scenes of Radiohead’s Lotus Flower was...
When trying to figure out what to post, I sometimes have to consult the boss for his opinion. Pete says “Bon Iver is cool”, so I’m going to let you listen to a track from the band’s newly-released iTunes session....
You know you’re a very productive person when you’re releasing videos from an album that is not even your latest one. Productive, or incredibly fucking lazy. This person would be Kanye West, who dropped Watch the Throne with Jay-Z last...
Lollapalooza Announces 2012 Line Up – It’s Pretty Good Perry Farrell’s Chicago festival, Lollapalooza, has unveiled their 2012 line up. I’m sort of bummed out that I won’t be heading to Grant Park on August 3-5 (since I have this...
Are Lollapalooza Line Up Hints Popping Up Around Chicago? Some of us like playing detective, trying to sift through hints and clues on the Internet, and then spread these rumours in a game of broken telephone, so that the end...
Grammy winner Bonnie Bear Bon Iver is keeping the momentum going, with a new video from last year’s self-titled second album. The song is called Towers, and the video features lots of drawings and mini buildings of towers – seems...
