Later this month, Big Red Machine, the duo of Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and the National’s Aaron Dessner, will release their sophomore album How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last? The LP features a whole lot of collaborators, including Taylor Swift, who shows up on a couple of tracks, including the single “Renegade...

Later this month, Big Red Machine, the superstar duo of Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and the National’s Aaron Dessner, will release their sophomore album How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last? The longtime collaborators brought in a whole bunch of friends to help out, including Taylor Swift, who’s recently worked with...

The National’s Aaron Vernon and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon are releasing their second album under the name Big Red Machine album, How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?, next month. We’ve heard “Latter Days” with Bonny Light Horseman’s Anaïs Mitchell, the Dessner solo tune &...

On 2009’s scene-defining Dark Was The Night compilation, the National’s Aaron Dessner and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon teamed up on a song called “Big Red Machine.” Years later, when the two musicians began creating together again — while building out an extended universe of projects like t...

Justin Vernon was always a collaborator at heart. Though his debut album as Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago, was famously recorded all by his lonesome while nursing heartbreak in a remote Wisconsin cabin, there was no chance that Bon Iver would remain such a solitary endeavor.