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  SPIN.com's Best of the Week

  April 23, 2011 – This week, SPIN covered Coachella -- where we brought you reviews, photos, live reports, and more -- while the Beastie Boys premiered their star-studded short movie Fight for Your Right Revisited. Meanwhile, Jeff Tweedy unveiled details about the upcoming Wilco album, Beyonce debuted a hot girl-power anthem, and Bon Iver announced the June release of their second album. …
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  Twitter Trio: Bon Iver, Girls, and Hunx

  April 22, 2011 – Lots of musicians tweet, but all that Twitters is not gold. That's why you'll want to check out SPIN.com every Friday to see whose tweets we're reading this week -- then update your TweetDeck! …
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  Bon Iver Return With Second LP in June

  April 20, 2011 – After breaking out with his smash 2008 debut For Emma, Forever Ago, and teaming up with Kanye West on the rapper's album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Bon Iver's Justin Vernon will return with his second album, titled Bon Iver, on June 21. The record (check out the tracklisting below) features 10 new songs, which Vernon recorded over three years in a former veterinarian's clinic in his home state of Wisconsin. Expect the album, w …
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  Staying Soulful With Indie Supergroup Gayngs

  March 22, 2011 – Not only is Gayngs a supergroup, but it's super-sized. Featuring members of Bon Iver, the Rosebuds, Solid Gold, Megafaun, Digitata, the Doomtree family, and loads more, the 20-plus-member band is in the midst of its final stretch of shows supporting last year's sexy, downtempo album, Relayted. …
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  PREMIERE: New Video from Bon Iver's S. Carey

  January 14, 2011 – Sean Carey, who sings and plays multiple instruments in Bon Iver, released his debut solo album as S. Carey this past fall, and nabbed a spot on our CMJ 2010 Artists to Watch list. But while his music is relatively new, it's already earned him superfans abroad: Two brothers from Sweden crafted a beautiful video to Carey's "In the Dirt," then sent it to his manager -- and now it's the song's official video! …
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  Inside Kanye West's Surprise NYC Club Show

  November 24, 2010 – A lot of ink has been spilled the past two weeks regarding one Kanye West of Chicago and what it all means and how his PR gaffes and his unimpeachable art are hopelessly, sublimely intertwined, the yin and yang of the same rampant ego. …
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  LISTEN: Kanye West Samples Bon Iver's "Woods"

  September 29, 2010 – Kanye West's still-untitled album will reportedly hit storeson November 22 but the rapper is releasing new music at a furious pace leading up to its release. The latest track to hit the web is "Lost in the World," featuring a sample of Bon Iver's "Woods." Hear it below! On the track, West pairs Bon Iver's Auto-Tune-heavy track with a martial beat and tribal shouting. …
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• Peter Gabriel, 'Scratch My Back' (Virgin U.K.)

  March 1, 2010 – Even in the early days of Genesis, this art-rock pioneer possessed the voice of a sage. Applied here to a covers album similarly rich in reflection and experience, he still sounds attractively knowing, but the degree to which Scratch My Back virtually rewrites several decades of unconventional tunes, from Randy Newman to Bon Iver, affirms Gabriel's eternal youth. …
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  Bon Iver, St. Vincent, Spoon Rock for Haiti

  January 25, 2010 – Saturday night's sold-out Haiti benefit event at Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsburg felt more like an indie jam session among friends than a concert with a serious social agenda. Billed as "A Night of Comedy and Music to Benefit Haiti" -- a fundraiser for the Red Cross and a Port-au-Prince orphanage, arranged by concert promoter Bowery Presents and music blog Brooklyn Vegan -- the event saw Spoon's Britt Daniel, Bon Iver's Justin Ve …
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  Bon Iver Play Surreal Sunrise Cemetery Gig

  September 28, 2009 – What if they held a sunrise concert and everybody showed up except the sun? "Metaphorically and un-metaphorically," frontman Justin Vernon of Bon Iver told a crowd of more than 2,500 beneath a damp, ashen Los Angeles sky, "this is one of the foggiest mornings I've ever experienced." That the setting was the lawn of the 110-year-old Hollywood Forever Cemetery - final resting place of the likes of Rudolph Valentino, Cecil B. …
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