The Pitchfork Music Festival’s franchising: In addition to the usual July event in Chicago, there’s now a second Parisian version of the festival taking place in October. Since his moniker’s French, Justin Vernon’s helping curate. So far Bon Iver’s also confirmed to play, along with Jens Lekman, ...

Wild Beasts, Cut Copy and Jens Lekman will join Justin Vernon in French capital

Jens Lekman’s premiered a soft-spoken new track “Cowboy Boots” via comedian/Secretly Canadian signee Tig Notaro’s podcast “Professor Blastoff.” Take a listen: (Via TwentyFourBit) You can stream/download the podcast, complete with plenty of banter between Lekman and Notaro, here. Don&...

Jens Lekman was the headliner at the Read and Shout Festival. It was an event created by librarian Matt Stead to raise awareness of the massive library closings across the UK. Lekman debuted two new songs and according to blog The Line Of Best Fit, he revealed the stories behind each one. The first, “Waiting [...]

After reminding us “The End Of The World Is Bigger Than Love” (aka the summer is best experienced in 3/4 time), Lekman appeared on the Australian game show Spicks And Specks dressed like Kraftwerk’s Florian Schneider (or Gary Numan’s Swedish cousin) to sing lines from Hedda Gabler set to the tunes of Haddaway&...