Best New Bands » Justin Vernon https://www.bestnewbands.com News, Reviews and Interviews Wed, 07 Feb 2018 02:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Album Review: Volcano Choir, Repave https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-preview-volcano-choir-repave/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-preview-volcano-choir-repave/#comments Wed, 28 Aug 2013 07:45:32 +0000 Volcano Choir is a collaboration between Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon and members of Collections of Colonies of Bees, a fellow Wisconsin outfit. When the collaboration began in 2009, it existed indirectly. What would become Volcano Choir started trading sounds and built on the trades. These sounds and loops eventually became Unmap which gave it

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  1. Radical Face Performs with a Choir at Brick and Mortar Last Thursday, Florida indie artist Ben Cooper (above) brought his project Radical Face to the Brick and Mortar Music Hall in San Francisco. When I first got to the venue The Albatross Choir from Oakland were already onstage creating joyful...
  2. Download Taking Alcatraz from Field Report’s forthcoming debut album. Taking Alcatraz is the second track off Field Report’s forthcoming debut album. Field Report happens to be an anagram of Porterfield, the lead singer and mastermind behind Field Report. With the kind of coverage they’re getting, they’re sure to be great. You can...
  3. Album Review: Pony Time, Go Find Your Own Minimalism is so cool. When I write that out, it sounds pretty facetious but I’m actually being very earnest – I love minimalism.  It can be a simplicity that gnaws at the very core of our deepest punk desires and...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-preview-volcano-choir-repave/feed/ 0 Catching Up with Field Report’s Chris Porterfield https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/catching-up-with-field-reports-chris-porterfield/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/catching-up-with-field-reports-chris-porterfield/#comments Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:41:54 +0000 Sometimes for a musician, it’s all about the journey to get to a particular destination. Just ask Field Report’s Chris Porterfield. As we showed in our Artist of the Week a few weeks ago, Porterfield’s path from DeYarmond Edison to Field Report has been unorthodox with many bumps along the road. We caught up with

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  1. Artist of the Week: Field Report Even with an album coming out next Tuesday, Field Report to many music fans, remains an unknown quantity as a new band, yet there’s an aura of curiosity hovering around them. Though as a group they’re new, the truth is...
  2. Field Report Releases Two Songs, Listen To Them Here Justin Vernon has had a hell of a year. He produced his girlfriend’s album (Kathleen Edwards), started his own label and announced the first release, won a couple Grammy’s and his former bandmate Chris Porterfield has just come out with...
  3. Catching Up With Luther Russell Veteran musical renaissance man Luther Russell is set to release his fifth LP, a double-length entitled The Invisible Audience, on July 12th on his own Ungawa Records.  The double album will make up for lost time, since Russell hasn’t released...
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  1. Field Report Releases Two Songs, Listen To Them Here Justin Vernon has had a hell of a year. He produced his girlfriend’s album (Kathleen Edwards), started his own label and announced the first release, won a couple Grammy’s and his former bandmate Chris Porterfield has just come out with...
  2. Download Taking Alcatraz from Field Report’s forthcoming debut album. Taking Alcatraz is the second track off Field Report’s forthcoming debut album. Field Report happens to be an anagram of Porterfield, the lead singer and mastermind behind Field Report. With the kind of coverage they’re getting, they’re sure to be great. You can...
  3. Hey L.A! Win Tickets To See Field Report At The Hotel Café We’re excited to announce our first ticket giveaway! For those of you in the Los Angeles area, we have a pair of tickets to see Field Report play at Hollywood’s intimate Hotel Café this Saturday, August 25. Winning is easy....
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/featured-artists/artist-of-the-week-field-report/feed/ 1 Download Taking Alcatraz from Field Report’s forthcoming debut album. https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/download-taking-alcatraz-from-field-reports-forthcoming-debut-album/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/download-taking-alcatraz-from-field-reports-forthcoming-debut-album/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 03:11:11 +0000 Taking Alcatraz is the second track off Field Report’s forthcoming debut album. Field Report happens to be an anagram of Porterfield, the lead singer and mastermind behind Field Report. With the kind of coverage they’re getting, they’re sure to be great. You can download Taking Alcatraz in advance of its release here. Hailing from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Porterfield is

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  1. Field Report Releases Two Songs, Listen To Them Here Justin Vernon has had a hell of a year. He produced his girlfriend’s album (Kathleen Edwards), started his own label and announced the first release, won a couple Grammy’s and his former bandmate Chris Porterfield has just come out with...
  2. 1776 Announce Debut LP, Spring Tour With The Dandy Warhols Self Titled Album Out June 5th on Beat The World Records / The End Records 1776 are a rock band from the small logging town of Longview, Washington. They are Nigel Ledgerwood, Christopher Cook, Mitchell Rupe, and Zach Whiton. For...
  3. Milo Greene Announce Headlining Tour + Album! Though the band has yet to release a proper album, Milo Greene has been busy nestling into the niche it made itself beside fellow Los Angeles psych/folkers Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros and Local Natives. The quintet has already...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/download-taking-alcatraz-from-field-reports-forthcoming-debut-album/feed/ 0 Field Report Releases Two Songs, Listen To Them Here https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/field-report-releases-two-songs-listen-to-them-here/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/field-report-releases-two-songs-listen-to-them-here/#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:30:23 +0000 Justin Vernon has had a hell of a year. He produced his girlfriend’s album (Kathleen Edwards), started his own label and announced the first release, won a couple Grammy’s and his former bandmate Chris Porterfield has just come out with a couple of tracks from his upcoming debut album which sounds like it’s going to

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  1. Nada Surf Releases “The Dulcitone Files” EP + new Mp3 for Download NORTH AMERICAN TOUR BEGINS TODAY NEW DATES IN JUNE ANNOUNCED FAN PRE-SALE FOR THE SUMMER DATES STARTS ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 Barsuk Records is excited to announce that Nada Surf are releasing The Dulcitone Files EP today, March 20. It is...
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]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/field-report-releases-two-songs-listen-to-them-here/feed/ 0 Album Review: Kathleen Edwards – Voyageur https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-kathleen-edwards-voyageur/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-kathleen-edwards-voyageur/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:24:38 +0000 The coffee percolates, the birds chirp, the crisp clean air of morning in San Francisco is upon me. I revel in these days, these new music Tuesdays when everything seems new again. It’s days like this that remind me of going on trips as a young boy with my family. On a modest budget my

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