Bon Iver
Eric Timothy Carlson and Graham Tolbert*Bon Iver is returning to amphitheaters next spring. The band has announced a 23-date tour scheduled to launch on March 30 in Arizona.
Throughout the spring and summer, Bon Iver will play throughout North America including dates in Atlanta, New Orleans, Miami, Houston and more. Upcoming venues include Forest Hills Stadium in New York City, Ascend Amphitheater in Nashville, two nights at Austin’s Moody Amphitheater with support from Dijon and Bonny Light Horseman. Amphitheater dates will come to a close on June 25 at Rabbit Rabbit in Asheville, N.C.
The upcoming shows will feature the latest iteration of the Bon Iver live band: Justin Vernon, Sean Carey, Jenn Wasner, Mike Lewis, Matt McCaughan and Andy Fitzpatrick. This past weekend, the musicians performed together for the first time in nearly two years, honoring the 10th anniversary of Bon Iver, Bon Iver with two very special concerts at LA’s YouTube Theater.
Like previous tours, each date will highlight the work of different charitable partners, via Bon Iver’s own 2 A Billion campaign. The campaign aims to raise support, awareness, and person-to-person connections in an effort to end gender inequity, domestic violence, and sexual abuse.
Days before the amphitheater tour kicks off, Bon Iver will release Bon Iver, Bon Iver (10th Anniversary Edition) on March 25. The new edition will feature five songs from Justin Vernon and Sean Carey’s AIR Studios session, a blind embossed version of the original cover art and a personal essay from long-time fan Phoebe Bridgers.
Following the North American dates, Bon Iver will head to Europe for a 13-date arena tour that kicks off on Oct. 16 in Dublin.
An artist presale will begin Wednesday. General onsale for the spring and summer dates will start on Friday at 10am local time. Check out a full list of dates below.
NEWS
No matter what you thought of the Kendrick Lamar and Drake battle, there was only one undisputed winner by the end of it all: the reaction community in the worlds of streaming and YouTube. Your favorite content creators broke down the bars, reacted to all the most shocking moments, and helped this showdown become one of hip-hop's most culturally significant and resonant moments in a long time... For better or worse. See, the battle's technically not over yet, but only because the 6ix God's idea of victory is clearly quite different. In his federal defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group – his label – for releasing K.Dot's "Not Like Us," he named various content creators who allegedly helped boost the track's widespread popularity and, as a result, its supposedly defamatory nature.
Furthermore, the specific allegation that Drake brings up in this highly controversial lawsuit is that UMG "whitelisted" copyright claims for YouTubers, streamers, etc. concerning "Not Like Us." This means that they would be able to monetize their content without facing a copyright claim from UMG over "Not Like Us," and this isn't really an allegation because various creators have backed this up. But a few important (alleged) caveats that people are talking about online need to be clear. First, "whitelisting" supposedly happens on behalf of a record label behind a song like the West Coast banger, and UMG is instead the distributor of that track. Secondly, as rapper and online personality ScruFaceJean brings up as seen in the post below, tracks like "Push Ups" were also "whitelisted" by its team.
Along with Jean, many other of your favorite content creators spoke out against this Drake lawsuit. Zias! and B.Lou, for example, spoke with their lawyer about the possibility of countersuing for emotional distress, as they found the Toronto superstar's accusations and his implication of them very disturbing and misguided. NoLifeShaq also dragged The Boy through the mud, calling him "soft" and positing that, whether "whitelisting" happened or not, they would react to "Not Like Us" accordingly as they did to his own tracks.
In addition, it's important to bring up that many others fans have pointed to how Drake excitedly used streamers to generate hype and reaction clips for his own diss tracks against Kendrick Lamar. The most direct example is with Kai Cenat, whom he texted to "stay on stream" before dropping "Family Matters." Ironically, the Twitch giant appears in this clowned-upon defamation lawsuit as an example of what the OVO mogul's accusations and implications are. And one more thing: there is no direct link between monetization and algorithmic boosting on sites like YouTube. With all this in mind, content creators seem to feel almost insulted at the idea that they only reacted to the two biggest rappers in the world beefing with each other because one of them would allow them to make money. If Drizzy knew the first thing about the reaction community, maybe he wouldn't have included this...
