“Drank someone else’s juice and left only the rind,” Katie Crutchfield boasts on her excellent new Waxahatchee album, Tigers Blood. She’s got a right to sound cocky. The long-time indie-rock underdog hero won herself a lot of new fans with Saint Cloud, her 2020 breakthrough hit, going for a laid-back style of heartland rock & roll twang. But Tigers Blood is even more rugged and confident, a master storyteller fully aware she’s on a hot streak. She sings about adult romance, struggling for sobriety, the day-to-day work of holding...
- 3/21/2024
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
Katie Crutchfield’s indie folk project Waxahatchee has announced a new album, Tigers Blood, out March 22nd via her new label home Anti-. Along with the news comes lead single “Right Back to It,” as well as a run of US tour dates in 2024.
Crutchfield wrote most of the songs on Tigers Blood during what she calls a “hot hand spell,” while on tour near the end of 2022. She reunited with producer Brad Cook, who also produced her 2020 album Saint Cloud, and welcomed onboard some new collaborators including Mj Lenderman and Spencer Tweedy. Pre-orders are ongoing.
“Right Back to It” sees Crutchfield lean into her country side, singing alongside an arpeggiated banjo jangle courtesy of Phil Cook as Lenderman joins her in harmony on the choruses. On it, Crutchfield reflects on maintaining a long-term romantic relationship, and the bittersweet beauty of building a partnership that can outlast your worries:...
Crutchfield wrote most of the songs on Tigers Blood during what she calls a “hot hand spell,” while on tour near the end of 2022. She reunited with producer Brad Cook, who also produced her 2020 album Saint Cloud, and welcomed onboard some new collaborators including Mj Lenderman and Spencer Tweedy. Pre-orders are ongoing.
“Right Back to It” sees Crutchfield lean into her country side, singing alongside an arpeggiated banjo jangle courtesy of Phil Cook as Lenderman joins her in harmony on the choruses. On it, Crutchfield reflects on maintaining a long-term romantic relationship, and the bittersweet beauty of building a partnership that can outlast your worries:...
- 1/9/2024
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
A little more than a decade ago, Alice Gerrard received an invitation to perform at a fiddle camp in Washington state.
“Should I bring an older musician with me?” Gerrard, 76 at the time, asked her friend Suzy Thompson, who was organizing the event.
Thompson laughed.
“Alice,” she told her. “You’re the older person now.”
Alice Gerrard just celebrated her 89th birthday this summer, but the singer, songwriter, fiddler-guitarist-autoharpist, and folklorist still refuses to see herself as any kind of older legend. As someone who spent the last 70 years learning from past generations of old-time,...
“Should I bring an older musician with me?” Gerrard, 76 at the time, asked her friend Suzy Thompson, who was organizing the event.
Thompson laughed.
“Alice,” she told her. “You’re the older person now.”
Alice Gerrard just celebrated her 89th birthday this summer, but the singer, songwriter, fiddler-guitarist-autoharpist, and folklorist still refuses to see herself as any kind of older legend. As someone who spent the last 70 years learning from past generations of old-time,...
- 10/12/2023
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
The musical seed Justin Vernon planted that eventually sprouted into Bon Iver is now available on streaming. The record, an original song titled “Hazelton” and recorded in the mid-2000s for the musician’s third solo album, functioned as the starting point for “Holocene,” the pivotal single from Bon Iver’s second studio album Bon Iver, Bon Iver.
“Hazelton” resurfaced as one of 83 newly-released recordings on Epoch, the definitive box set documenting Vernon’s old band DeYarmond Edison. In many ways, it marked the official beginning of the end by...
“Hazelton” resurfaced as one of 83 newly-released recordings on Epoch, the definitive box set documenting Vernon’s old band DeYarmond Edison. In many ways, it marked the official beginning of the end by...
- 6/22/2023
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
Justin Vernon has shared the early iteration of what we know now as Bon Iver’s “Holocene.” Titled “hazelton,” it appears on an upcoming mega box set from his former shortlived band DeYarmond Edison. Stream “hazelton” and its companion track “liner” below.
Originally recorded between June 2005 and May 2006, “hazelton” and “liner” were solo efforts that Vernon old school burned onto CD-Rs for his third solo album, hazeltons. They are some of the oldest recordings to become part of the larger Bon Iver discography, showing how Vernon has been undeniably Vernon since day one. It’s plucky and slightly angsty, with Vernon’s voice a delightful rasp moving up and down the vocal scale.
The DIY album ultimately contributed to DeYarmond Edison’s breakup. The band played their final show no more than a month after its release, with Bon Iver and Megafaun (the band that brothers Brad and Phil Cook...
Originally recorded between June 2005 and May 2006, “hazelton” and “liner” were solo efforts that Vernon old school burned onto CD-Rs for his third solo album, hazeltons. They are some of the oldest recordings to become part of the larger Bon Iver discography, showing how Vernon has been undeniably Vernon since day one. It’s plucky and slightly angsty, with Vernon’s voice a delightful rasp moving up and down the vocal scale.
The DIY album ultimately contributed to DeYarmond Edison’s breakup. The band played their final show no more than a month after its release, with Bon Iver and Megafaun (the band that brothers Brad and Phil Cook...
- 6/22/2023
- by Cervanté Pope
- Consequence - Music
Before we knew Justin Vernon as the force behind Bon Iver, he fronted DeYarmond Edison, a band formed along with his childhood friends Joe Westerlund, Brad Cook, and Phil Cook. Those early recordings by the future indie rock heroes are now getting a proper release with Epoch, a comprehensive box set out August 18th on Jagjaguwar. You can hear a preview now with the single “As Long As I Can Go” b/w “Feel the Light,” along with a remastered version of their 2005 track “Bones.”
Epoch comprises 83 recordings — many of which are being heard outside the band for the very first time — across five LPs and four CDs, dating all the way back to 1998. Along with the music comes a 60,000-word biography from journalist/executive producer/self-described biggest fan Grayson Haver Currin, the collection captures DeYarmond Edison’s evolution from high school rockers who performed as Mount Vernon to their...
Epoch comprises 83 recordings — many of which are being heard outside the band for the very first time — across five LPs and four CDs, dating all the way back to 1998. Along with the music comes a 60,000-word biography from journalist/executive producer/self-described biggest fan Grayson Haver Currin, the collection captures DeYarmond Edison’s evolution from high school rockers who performed as Mount Vernon to their...
- 6/1/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
At Austin City Limits this year, photographer Kristen Blanton had the chance to catch up with a few of Paste‘s favorite acts on the lineup, mingling with the bands backstage and documenting what it’s like to be a touring musician at a big festival. Check out Blanton’s backstage moments with Shouting Matches, the band comprised of Justin Vernon (Bon Iver, Volcano Choir), Phil Cook (Megafaun) and Brian Moen (Peter Wolf Crier) in the gallery below....
- 11/8/2013
- Pastemagazine.com
It’s been a few moons since Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon dominated the headlines with his dog-defiling Vma disses, Northern Exposure-themed tattoo contests, and bro-tacular workout videos. But instead of holing up in a remote cabin and writing down his feelings (again), Vernon has been using his time away to shepherd a new, less pensive band into existence: The Shouting Matches. The Vernon-led blues-rock outfit—which includes Phil Cook of Megafaun and Brian Moen of Peter Wolf Crier—is set to release its debut album, Grownass Man, April 16 on Middle West. Before the album officially wakes up ...
- 4/8/2013
- avclub.com
By Zachary Swickey
Did you know that Bon Iver’s crooner Justin Vernon has his own imprint on his home label, Jagjaguwar Records? Vernon’s equally tongue-twisting Chigliak imprint has been gestating since 2010 and now it appears the label is finally ready for its first release: a reissue by Wisconsin troupe Amateur Love.
This comes as no surprise since Amateur Love is from Vernon’s home town of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and he first mentioned reissuing the band’s ’03 debut It’s All Aquatic to Pitchfork back in 2010.
The reissue is expected to drop May 22 digitally as well as appearing in 12” vinyl form, which will be accompanied by a download of some previously unreleased 2004 songs from the group – being dubbed the Ev Sessions.
Vernon explained in a press release that Amateur Love was “the singular catalyst in founding Chigliak.” He continued:
“[Amateur Love's] Josh Scott was the ambassador of my heart for many years.
Did you know that Bon Iver’s crooner Justin Vernon has his own imprint on his home label, Jagjaguwar Records? Vernon’s equally tongue-twisting Chigliak imprint has been gestating since 2010 and now it appears the label is finally ready for its first release: a reissue by Wisconsin troupe Amateur Love.
This comes as no surprise since Amateur Love is from Vernon’s home town of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and he first mentioned reissuing the band’s ’03 debut It’s All Aquatic to Pitchfork back in 2010.
The reissue is expected to drop May 22 digitally as well as appearing in 12” vinyl form, which will be accompanied by a download of some previously unreleased 2004 songs from the group – being dubbed the Ev Sessions.
Vernon explained in a press release that Amateur Love was “the singular catalyst in founding Chigliak.” He continued:
“[Amateur Love's] Josh Scott was the ambassador of my heart for many years.
- 3/23/2012
- by MTV News
- MTV Newsroom
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