Bon Iver in Concert

On the 11th, Bon Iver played their final show "for a while" at the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. If you don't know them already, they're a great alternative-sort-of-folk band, and lead singer Justin Vernon's vocals are beautiful. You should definitely check out their (only) album For Emma, Forever Ago, but moreso their EP Blood Bank, which is truly fantastic; better than For Emma... in my opinion (albeit consisting only of 4 tracks). It's great to listen to while it's snowing. Although that only happens once a year here. Some years.

Anyway, you can stream the Riverside concert at Radio Milwaukee's blog here. Right click and Save Target As... on that "Audio MP3" button underneath the streaming bar to download it for keeps. It's a great show, and it's in soundboard quality.

Setlist:

1. Flume
2. Lump Sum
3. Creature Fear / Team
4. Brackett, WI
5. Beach Baby
6. Skinny Love
7. Blood Bank
8. Re: Stacks
9. Your Love [The Outfield Cover]
10. The Wolves (Act I and II)
11. Babys
12. For Emma

I've downloaded the concert and split it up into separate tracks with names and everything (the original Radio Milwaukee file is just one long track), and I've uploaded it as a .rar here:

http://www.fileshaker.com/2009

I'm pretty sure that's okay for me to do (if it's not, someone tell me!)...all I've done is split up the original file and named the tracks. The files are AAC (.m4a), so they're iTunes friendly, and should have all the correct tags for artist, album, etc. I understand some people don't like this type of file, but when I converted it to MP3, it ruined the seamlessness of the show (creating a gap in between the tracks). If you want to, I guess you can just find some AAC to MP3 freeware using Google...I just thought the gapless one should be the one I upload. There are a couple of blips and random glitches in the noise, but they were in the original file, they're not my fault!

I gave some of the longer speeches their own tracks, so the tracklist is slightly different to the setlist:

1. Flume - 5:05
2. Lump Sum - 6:07
3. Creature Fear / Team - 7:53
4. Brackett, WI - 4:21
5. Beach Baby - 4:10
6. Introductions [Speech] - 1:23
7. Skinny Love - 4:33
8. Blood Bank - 6:08
9. Thank You [Speech] - 1:11
10. Re: Stacks - 6:41
11. Your Love [The Outfield Cover] - 4:28
12. Instructions [Speech] - 2:50
13. The Wolves (Act I and II) - 6:14
14. Encore Break - 1:22
15. Babys - 7:34
16. For Emma - 5:04

Total - 1:14:55

In hindsight, I maybe should've uploaded a .zip instead of a .rar...but if you download WinZip, you'll be fine.

Enjoy!

If you like Bon Iver, you should also watch these great performance videos on La Blogotheque; there are three on each link:

Part I
Part II

Flume (the first take, on the Part I link), and Skinny Love (on the Part II link) are real stand-outs; I've embedded Skinny Love below, although you're better off clicking on the links, because it'll only let me embed a mini version. And you'll be missing out.