Through the musical project, Bon Iver, Justin Vernon somehow expresses pure sentiment. His falsetto manages to cut through to those parts of me that remain deep within. His songs are more about the emotion the sounds envoke than the lyric.
“I’m not really asking you to hear what I’m saying too much,” he said, “because I would have spoken the words harder.”
He gives the listener room to insert a bit of themselves into the music. And because of that we feel connection and appreciation for his art.
The new album is made up of 10 songs that follow in the footsteps of “For Emma, Forever Ago.” He used similar techniques and sounds but the spectrum of his emotion has a new variety to it. He even seems happy at times.
On June 21st I will be purchasing Bon Iver’s self title, but for now my day will be consumed by this stream.
Hot Sauce Committee Part Two. Dirty.
Good people, unfortunately due to circumstances beyond our control, the “clean” version of our new album, The Hot Sauce Committee pt 2 has leaked. So as a hostile and retaliatory measure with great hubris we are making the full explicit aka filthy dirty nasty version available for streaming on our site. We hope this brings much happiness, hugs, and harmony. Enjoy Kikoos for life!
Thank you,
The Management
love them so much. I’m pretty sure that they are sharing the stage with the Avett Brothers. I plan on staking my ground for both shows.
The Head and The Heart made their national small screen debut last night on Conan with their single ”Lost in My Mind.” They stomped and clapped their way to this point after over a year of touring, and I am thrilled that Conan was the first to spotlight this amazing band. Their live shows are contagious in spirit and stocked full of hamonies and melodies that you will find yourself singing along to or wishing you knew the words so you could.
Pick up their album from Sub Pop Records and join the crowds that are quickly converted over to The Head and The Heart.
I adore all the break-away glass. Many fine moments, many fine faces.
My plan this afternoon is to listen to this track at least 3 times. Mumford & Sons continue to test their new material in front of their live audiences. This one was recorded live in New York and is currently being coined ”Lover’s Eyes”. When oh when is the new album dropping?
I’m looking forward to hearing all their new material live next Friday at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
You must learn one thing.
The world was made to be free in.
Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.David Whyte
Bon Iver has released 51 seconds of new material this morning. The video features a relief painting of artist, Gregory Euclide. It truly is a golden teaser that leaves you warmed.
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On Friday night I witnessed two friends of mine almost come to blows over whether or not Beastie Boys are hip hop or not. All I know is, I love me some funky sounds and rhythms that the Beastie Boys guarantee to bring. I’m looking forward to the new album coming out May 3rd, Hot Sauce Committee Part Two. Here is the first single that hit the web yesterday.
Make Some Noise
This wasn’t really part of the plan, but since this track is out there we wanted to let you hear it here first, or maybe second. EnjoyMike
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Currently listening at full volume: New Frank Turner, ‘I Am Disappeared’ from England Keep My Bones. As previously mentioned, look for his fourth album to hit the US on June 7th.
Pick up your quality listening at NME.com
“I’ve been chomping at the bit to get new material out there. I hate waiting and I’m really excited about it, so I managed to wheedle my label into giving me permission to leak one track, ‘I Am Disappeared’, one of my favourites and one that people have been enjoying live. It’s a song about Bob Dylan. It’s as representative of the album as one song could be, though the whole thing is pretty sprawling musically! Now to resist leaking the rest of the songs…” Frank Turner
Paul Simon on Music Industry and also Vampire Weekend
- Michael Hogan: Do you pay attention to changes in the music business? Do you have any point of view on what’s happening?
- Paul Simon: Sure. I felt really terrible that all the record stores closed. For a lot of people, they liked wandering into a record store and seeing what was new. They’d come in to buy one record and then they’d see some other album that would be interesting. I would go into record stores and wander through African records or something. I guess you can do the same thing today. You just have to do it online.
- The record business has sort of imploded, really. It’s just a fragment of what it was. That’s too bad. It makes it harder for musicians to record. The budgets of albums go down. They have to do them faster. Really, really good musicians, who used to get paid a premium to record, are unaffordable now.
- If you’re not listening with really great earphones or really great speakers, then you can’t hear if a record is made with subtleties of sound in the studio, which means that people are less inclined toward making art that has that degree of subtlety. Or at least attempting that degree of subtlety that might approach art. That means that everything gets reduced to a simpler formula, and whenever that happens, it’s not the most interesting music. When there’s too much prepackaging, it’s not interesting. That’s why, to me, the most interesting stuff of popular music is indie.
- Hogan: Speaking of indie, are you a Vampire Weekend fan? Have you ever met those guys?
- Simon: I met them. They were playing on Saturday Night Live. My son (I guess he was 16 or 17 then) wanted to go. He was a fan. He wanted to go down to see them. So I thought, Yeah, I’ll go down to see them, too. I guess I’ll go and meet them, because everybody was saying that they were taking stuff from Graceland or whatever. I felt bad. I wanted to go and tell them that I didn’t think they were taking anything. So that’s what I told them. They said, “Do you think we are?” and I said, “No, I think you’re going to the same sources that I went to. You’re drawing from the same well. You’re trying to write interesting songs.” In a way, we were on the same pursuit, but I don’t think you’re lifting from me, and anyway, you’re welcome to it, because everybody’s lifting all the time. That’s the way music grows and is shaped.
- Taken from Vanity Fair, Paul Simon's interview with Michael Hogan, March 16, 2011:
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