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-11 posts tagged "Bon Iver"
Claire Lyons | Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Here’s what you missed at Pitchfork Fest in Chicago’s Union Park from July 21-23. Alvvays Lead singer Molly Rankin sang softly into the microphone during their most heartbreaking bridge off of “Blue Rev,” their newest album: “Moving to the country / Gonna have that baby / Wait tables in town / I know word gets
Claire Lyons | Sunday, July 16, 2023
Pitchfork Festival is making its 17th return to Union Park next weekend. It is hosted by Pitchfork, an indie-darling online music magazine, guaranteeing the festival’s lineup sports a unique assortment of beloved musicians and underground up-and-comers. If you’re attending the festival, Scene has a list of acts you don’t want to miss; if you
Abby Patrick | Wednesday, January 19, 2022
I honestly don’t know what to write this column about. Typically I only have to write one of these per semester, and I usually pick a later date, storing up ideas until then, to make sure that when my turn comes, I have something halfway decent to say, something interesting and inspiring enough (to me)
Ryan Israel, Charlie Kenney, Matthew Kellenberg, Dessi Gomez, Hanna Kennedy, Jake Winningham, Ethan Utley, Mike Donovan, Sarah Kikel, Elizabeth Gregory, Willoughby Thom and Sara Schlecht | Thursday, December 12, 2019
It’s the grand finale: Scene’s official list of the top 20 albums of the year. Our writers have spent 2019 listening to countless hours of music, as our Spotify Wrappeds can confirm, and have taken this time before finals begin to reflect on the year in music by ranking our top albums. Each writer’s rankings
Mike Donovan, Dessi Gomez, Nora McGreevy, Ryan Israel and Ethan Utley | Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Forecasts are bleak. School is canceled. The Office of Campus Safety recently outlined survival instructions for the week: walk in groups, dress warmly and appropriately, stay dry — basically, avoid being outside at all costs. While you’re huddled indoors, fending off frostbite and eating your way through your stores of week-old Poptarts and canned soups, Scene
Matthew Kellenberg | Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Last June, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and the National’s Aaron and Bryce Dessner launched the online publishing platform PEOPLE. The goals of the platform: promote collaboration, remove the obstacles of music publication and provide listeners with more content from their favorite artists. PEOPLE already has 160 artists onboard, ranging from indie darlings to classically trained
Adam Ramos, Nora McGreevy, Owen Lane, Charlie Kenney and Mike Donovan | Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Both the Olympic athletes in Pyeongchang and college students in South Bend are experiencing record-low, frigid temperatures. To celebrate, this week’s Scene Selections are songs inspired about the snow — or sports — or both. Snowy sports. You get the idea. “Curling” — Speedy Ortiz By Adam Ramos, Scene Editor Unlike its summer counterpart, the
Jimmy Kemper, Erin McAuliffe, John Darr, Kelly McGarry, Christian Bunker, Adrian Mark Lore, Brian Boylen, Adam Ramos, Mike Donovan, Jack Riedy and Maggie Walsh | Wednesday, December 7, 2016
A Tribe Called Quest — “We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service” By Adrian Mark Lore Suffice it to say that 2016 was a turbulent year, both domestically and internationally. For the music industry, it was a year of sad departures — the death of legends like David Bowie and Leonard Cohen— as well
Carlos De Loera and Christian Bunker | Thursday, October 6, 2016
There are a million things we could say about Bon Iver’s highly anticipated new album “22, A Million,” but we narrowed them down to these 22 for your convenience: 22, A Million?: The first thing that jumps out about this album is its title. It immediately evokes the question “But why?” The answer to this
Nora McGreevy | Friday, April 1, 2016
Jasmine van den Bogaerde, a 19-year-old singer-songwriter from Hampshire, England, who goes by the stage name “Birdy,” released her third studio album this past Friday, achieving in her still-young music career what other musicians can only dream of. To put this major achievement in context: as an almost-19-year-old myself, my victory of the week was