It might be a while before we hear another Bon Iver album, but that doesn’t mean Justin Vernon is taking a vacation. Repave, the new album from his side project Volcano Choir, is streaming today, and we learned last month that he’s also gotten together with gospel institution the Blind Boys Of Alabama, as well [...]

Now that Bon Iver is on a between-albums break, Justin Vernon has a bunch of projects going. And one of them is pretty fascinating: He’s produced all of I’ll Find A Way, the new album from the gospel institution Blind Boyd Of Alabama, at his April Base Studio in Wisconsin. Vernon helped picked the songs [...]

Patty Griffin, Sam Amidon, My Brightest Diamond's Shara Worden and White Hinterland's Casey Dienel also appear on new record    

The Blind Boys Of Alabama are a gospel-music institution that’s been around, in various configurations, since 1939, and they’re also just as Alabama-based and visually impaired as the name implies. (They are all grown-ups, though.) And if you listen to their immense body of work and think, “Man, I would love to hear...

Superjam is an annual tradition at Bonnaroo, and this year the fest hosted three of them. One was led by Jim James and John Oates, with appearances by R. Kelly, Billy Idol, Larry Graham, and Brittany Howard of the Alabama Shakes. R. Kelly covered Sam Cooke. Billy Idol covered T. Rex. Check out some videos [...]