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If you love bands like Of Monsters & Men, Mumford & Sons, and Bon Iver, you’re going to love this week’s featured artist, Kory Murphy. Originally from the American midwest, Murphy has traveled all over the world in an effort to both strengthen and promote his music. With rootsy, neo-folk tinges, his recordings use simple and classic instrumentation, with guitar and keyboard offset by harmonica and occasionally forays into various unconventional forms of percussion. You can listen to “Lion and the Mouse” after the jump. Continue reading ‘Featured Artist: Kory Murphy’

• Avril + Nickelback + Anime.
• This is everything that Kurt Cobain would have hated.
• A remarkable similarity between Lady Gaga and a new genus of ferns.
• This guitar probably smells great.
• Kathleen Edwards lands on a winning band name.
• Cee–Lo’s most high–profile feature yet.

• Just another reason to watch the Super Bowl.
• Bon Iver’s new video plays out like an interstellar Easter egg hunt.
• Prince and Gatsby? Sign us up.
• Thankfully, Goulding won’t be making an album with From First To Last.
• Nobody can accuse Tom Morello of being partisan.
• Passion Pit hit the (real) big time.

Anais Mitchell wants listeners to fully immerse themselves in her music.

Such passion for her songs and her efforts to have them reach listeners on a visceral level is one reason that Mitchell is loved by so many, including such high-profile artists as her own musical idol Ani DiFranco and the members of the GRAMMMY Award winning Bon Iver. Although Mitchell has barely cracked her 30s, she projects the insights and virtuosity of some folk artists who performed well before she was born. Any doubters need only sample her most recent album Young Man in America. Continue reading ‘Your Country’s Right Here: Anais Mitchell Barnstorms for Good Folk’

At the beginning of August, Justin Vernon, singer/songwriter for the group Bon Iver, announced a remix contest for the band’s most recent self titled album. The stems from the record were released to the public so that fans and musicians could take a crack at making their own versions for a chance to be on the final exclusive Spotify release entitled Bon Iver, Bon Iver: Stems Project. After only a few months, the winners of this competition have finally been determined. You can now listen to all of their remixes on Spotify by clicking here.

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• Please, just take all of my money.
• The ghost was reportedly a little freaked out.
• Radio City EDM Hall.
• Now that is a headline.
• OK, this is actually a cool tattoo.
• He’s picking up bad vibrations.

Many of us know that feeling when an album hits you just right during a crucial moment in your life. When everything you’re hearing—the sounds, the melodies, the emotions, the lyrics—matches everything you’re feeling. It all just seems to flow directly from the speakers to your heart and back again, as if there is some sort of etherial connection between yourself and the artist. Favorite records like these are what define us as music fans. They help us realize who we are and who our favorite artists or  bands are.

But we also know the opposite feeling, when that same artist’s newest release falls flat, just as well. When the effort just does not amount to the previous release(s) that we hold so close to our hearts. As fans, we often form connections to artists and their music that they become a defining aspects of our identity. So, when our favorite musicians go in a new direction, we sometimes feel offended or even cheated, as if they have betrayed us in some way, leaving us alone with the nostalgia of a better time. Continue reading ‘Crossroads: When Fans And Bands Go Their Separate Ways’

• This will surely be an incredibly soulful outing.
• Don’t leave us, Justin!
• Congratulations, Matt Bellamy. You are no longer a crazy person.
• Fiona explains it all.
• Universal, EMI join forces to own your soul.
• Say it, sister.

• Art Nouveau meets ’90s TV drama.
• Get ready for awesome.
• Honestly, this is pretty normal for Peaches.
• Randy’s satire still bites.
• Hillbilly Jesus. That is all.
• Return of the grunge!

Justin Vernon, the brains behind indie folk project Bon Iver, is planning on getting a new tattoo and has turned to the internet and his fans to find the perfect artist. He has posted on 99designs.com, “looking to have someone design a tattoo for me based on a Northern Exposure episode in the style of Mucha.” The title of that episode is where Vernon got the name for his band, and it holds great personal significance to him  as he says it “weirdly explained my life to me.” You can read his full description of the design and see example images here, and if you submit your own artwork, there’s a chance it may be permanently scarred onto Justin Vernon’s right arm.

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