When Justin Vernon left Raleigh, North Carolina by way of Eau Claire, Wisconsin indie folkers DeYarmond Edison to go on to late-2000s indie wunderkind status as Bon Iver, the remaining members of DE -- Phil Cook, Brad Cook, and Joe Westerlund -- carried on in North Carolina as Megafaun. With an impossible to pinpoint, laid-back lo-fi sound incorporating Byrds-esque harmonies, elegiac folk-picking, and off-kilter instrumentation (think a rougher around the edges Fleet Foxes), Megafaun earned accolades beyond their feted former bandmate. The trio gained solid enough reviews for the sparse debut disc Bury the Square in 2008; however, their sophomore release the next year, Gather, Form & Fly, on the Hometapes label, drew raves, with high marks from the Onion AV Club and Pitchfork. The mini-LP Heretofore arrived the following year. ~ Jason Thurston, Rovi
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, "Comprovisation for Connor Pass", runs a whopping 13 minutes. The band recorded Heretofore earlier in the year, and members of Slaraffenland guest o...
Earnest recreations of American roots music come from all over the place these days. At last weekend's Green Man Festival in Wales, North Carolina's M...
As previously reported, Megafaun recruited Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon, Sharon Van Etten, and others for a concert of old folk and blues songs at ...
the concerts, which go down September 17-19 at Hayti Heritage Center in Durham, North Carolina. Celestial-voiced Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon will ...
"Wa Muluendu", here. More new albums streaming online are listed below, with links. -- Stereolab's Not Music is streaming at NPR and due November 16 o...
announced the imminent arrival ofRelayted, an album by a new band calledGayngsthat features a small village worth of indie rock/rappers, including Bon...
Tweet The advertising during the Super Bowl ended up being something of a microcosm for advertising trends in general: indie bands were all over this ...
Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche will perform a special show with experimental folk-rock band Megafaun and his own duo On Fillmore next February. Scheduled ...
