Justin Vernon's Eaux Claires festival has been spearheading a Wisconsin get-out-the-vote campaign, in which the Bon Iver leader is inviting residents of his home state to nominate undecided voters for a personal conversation with Vernon. Thus far this initiative has yielded a new Vernon song in tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and in a new&#8...

The great singer-songwriters Amanda Shires and Jason Isbell, who are married to each other, have been doing a whole lot of livestreaming during quarantine. Some of the time, they've been promoting Reunions, the recent album from Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, the band that includes both Shires and Isbell. But a lot of the…

Back in April, less than a year after dropping their fourth album, i,i, Bon Iver released an extremely good new song built on a sample from another extremely good new song. Billed as the first "episode" of "Bon Iver Season Five," it was titled "PDLIF," which stood for "Please Don't Live In Fear."