Bon Iver - I Can't Make You Love Me...

Bon Iver - I Can't Make You Love Me (Bonnie Raitt cover) by tynie626

Bon Iver High School Jazz Band Release...

From Bon Iver's Website (12/8/09):

Just in time for the holiday season, Eau Claire Memorial Jazz I is proud to announce the CD release of their A Decade With Duke concert featuring Justin Vernon of BON IVER.

CDs are available for purchase in Eau Claire, Wisconsin only at Brick House Music, Morgan Music, and the offices of Volume One.

A digital version which includes only the second set, featuring Vernon, is also available digitally worldwide at most online music retailers such as iTunes, Amazon, eMusic, etc.

All proceeds from the local CD sales and digital sales will be donated directly to Eau Claire Memorial High School's band and jazz band programs.

Track list:

First Set
1. Wind Machine
2. Symphony in Riffs
3. Moon Over Cuba
4. Happy Go Lucky Local
5. Portrait Of Louie Armstrong (featuring Bruce Hering)
6. Bye Bye Blackbird
Second Set
1. Lump Sum
2. Rocks In My Bed (featuring Addie Strei)
3. Bewitched
4. Miss Otis Regrets
5. For Emma
6. Lady Is A Tramp
7. Since I Fell For You (featuring Mike Noyce)
8. Satisfied Mind

Video: Bon Iver ~ Hollywood's Forever Cemetery...

Bon Iver recently played Hollywood's Forever Cemetery from 6am to sunrise. These are some videos that have surfaced from this show...which, by all accounts, was amazing.

Jagjaguwar Introduces VOLCANO CHOIR...

Unmap marks the debut full-length from Volcano Choir, the collaboration between Collections of Colonies of Bees and Justin Vernon of Bon Iver. Jagjaguwar will release the first project by Volcano Choir, Unmap, on September 22nd (21st in the UK), worldwide.

Volcano Choir is an assembly of Wisconsinites Jon Mueller, Chris Rosenau, Jim Schoenecker, Daniel Spack, Justin Vernon, and Thomas Wincek. You might find these old friends also frequenting records and stages under different monikers, Collections of Colonies of Bees and Bon Iver. The collaboration predates the meteoric rise of Justin

Vernon's Bon Iver project, with original songwriting dating back to the summer of 2005, right around the time the Bees first toured with Vernon's previous band DeYarmond Edison.

While entirely a studio record, the collection doesn't suffer from the overburdens of a digital pile up or over-thinking. Rather it breathes and convulses in equal measure, radiating an inherent dynamism found only in the voluntary bondage of intimacy. With influences ranging from David Sylvian and Steve Reich to Mahalia Jackson and Tom Waits, it might be more accurate to say the group's influence is music itself. You can hear it in the care and real love generously applied to each moment of Unmap. With the vibe of some intimate backwoods gospel, plus a spirit of patience and thoughtful repetition, the music of Volcano Choir is as dynamic as it is lovely.

Unmap ultimately came together over a weekend in November 2008 in Fall Creek, Wisconsin, at Justin and Nate Vernon's recording studio. And while it is at its heart a record about the allure of being with people you need and making something with them, it is also a document created by musicians with rare gifts getting together to exorcise their ideas about beauty. This scaffolding of loops and off grid tempos for choral style vocals offers a state of continual surprise, call it unexpectation.

Bon Iver Gives Blood (to you)...

After such a successful year and much critical acclaim, Bon Iver's upcoming EP, Blood Bank is highly anticipated (due January 20th). Jagjaguwar (Bon Iver's record label) is offering up a little taste of what fans can expect by releasing the title track, Blood Bank...so head to the site now and grab yourself some of the finest music this side of Jupiter.

Bon Iver on Letterman (12/11/08)...

And while we are on the topic of Bon Iver...take a look at this limited edition screenprint poster that my buddy Steve & I designed and sold at the show this past summer at The Crofoot in Pontiac, MI. For those of you in the holiday gift-giving mode, this might be a nice option for that rock poster lover on your list (plenty of other great posters on the Capital A site, too). It is hard to see from this image, but the jaguar below is printed in metallic gold ink...gotta love the shiny stuff!

Click here to buy this Bon Iver poster from Capital A.