Bon Iver

Interview: Darling West’s Mari and Tor Egil Kreken discuss “Cosmos” and nordicana

June 20, 2023 Martin Johnson 0

Norwegians love the banjo and bring a natural sense of melancholy to their music. Many people enjoyed the 2000 film ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou’, but in Norway, it also helped kickstarted the nordicana genre when […]

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: The Best of the Rest

October 6, 2022 Clint West 0

The votes have been cast and counted and next week we will begin the run-down of the Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century as chosen by our writers. Number 10 will be revealed on […]

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums Of The 21st Century: Ljubinko Zivkovic

June 16, 2022 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0

How do you compile any list? Or in this specific case, how do you compile a list of the top 10 americana albums of the 21st century – a century when americana started getting more and […]

Bon Iver announce new record, due next month – Listen

July 16, 2019 Mark Whitfield 2

Bon Iver have announced details of their fourth album which will be called “i,i” (it sounds Scouse to us) and is coming out on August 30th via Jagjaguwar. The band posted on their site: “Recording over […]

Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver lay into Bruno Mars

January 30, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Well it’s always nice on a Tuesday morning to see bands falling out. Stereogum report: “Beardy folk men are apparently not big Bruno Mars fans. Earlier today, Justin Vernon of Bon Iver responded to Mars’ surprising Album Of The […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 2

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers