bon_iver redTree excellent choice, cocoon... "good winter" recorded solo in a cabin in wisconsin... america's national public radio recently named it best record for 2008... there's a download available from "all songs considered live" of a show that bon iver did in washington d.c. 081216 ... cocoon why thank you ;) although really, i have one of the many blogs i read to thank. one of whom put it best when they said one of the reasons it was so good is because its a COMPLETE album. it works best as a whole. i 3 bon iver 081216 ... cocoon aand apparently i forgot blather doesnt to special symbols. last line should read i [heart] bon iver 081216 ... unhinged yes, there have been many interviews with them in my favorite free weekly this year. www.expressmilwaukee.com maybe they have back issue stuff on the website. i'm not sure. 081217 ... unhinged (or maybe not a LOT of interviews, but i remember at least one interview and many mentions. and when a band plays at the pabst theater, they usually have to pretty damn good) 081217 ... text tester u ♥ bon iver 081217 ... text tester dammit, i forgot, the use of the word "hearts" in blather's database disables the special character brrr 081217 ... tester ♥ testing text except in the name field. that is... 081217 ... now_now bon iver & st. vincent break my heart in tandem roslyn 100608 ... raze seven or eight high school students were working through a routine for what i guess was a dance class being held in the park, though there didn't seem to be a teacher around anywhere. maybe it wasn't a class at all. maybe they were just dancing for something to do. they were listening to something on one of their phones. i was expecting some piece of overproduced modern pop. i got closer and heard what it was. "for emma, forever ago". i sang along to "skinny love". they didn't hear me. it didn't matter. it made me smile. it was just enough, and almost too much. 201026 what's it to you? who go blather from