I Guess I'm Floating — Long before Justin Vernon grew a grizzly beard and secluded himself in a cabin creating the emotional music behind Bon Iver, he was a humble high school student at Memorial High School in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Perhaps with a few more pimples and l... more info

Stereogum — Earlier this week we took a magnifying glass to Pitchfork's Top 100 Songs Of 2009. Most of those songs appeared on albums, which leads us to the site's Top 50 Albums Of 2009. For starters, metal creeps in via Baroness and Sunn O))), but not Mastod... more info

Chorus.fm — *Bon Iver (http://www.myspace.com/boniver)* is releasing a live album (http://www.nme.com/news/bon-iver/48809) that will feature the band's songs as well as some jazzy numbers. Submitted by topher465 more info

NME — 'A Decade With Duke' also features Justin Vernon's high school jazz band more info

Stereogum — Welcome to the fourth annual Gummy Awards! The following results are based on thousands of Stereogum and Videogum readers' votes for the best of 2009's music, film, television, and Web videos. Because it's almost 2010, you guys also decided on ... more info

Undercover, Australia — Bon Iver singer Justin Vernon has released a jazz album, recorded with his high school jazz band, Eau Claire Memorial High School’s Jazz Ensemble I. more info

Stereogum — If you missed Justin Vernon's trek to his Eau Claire alma mater to lead his high school's jazz band in arrangements of his songs and standards, the night's been memorialized on A Decade With Duke, available at Amazon. (Thanks for the tip, Jesse.) more info

Rawkblog — eMusic’s best of the decade list is, at once, interesting, broad enough to please us indie kids but idiosyncratic enough to excite, and the product of actual taste — not a number-mashing staff vote. At least so it appears. A few missteps, of cour... more info

Guardian Music — Armed with a hoard of antique instruments, this multi-tasking band create ornate pop full of sepia-tinted nostalgiaHometown: Portland, Oregon.The lineup: Micah Rabwin (vocals, guitar, musical saw, keyboard), Sean Ogilvie (vocals, keyboard, guitar, ac... more info

The Vinyl Villain — I normally move away quickly to the opposite corner of the record shop as fast as I can if someone points in the direction of a charity record, for almost without exception they are well-meaning but crap.But not Dark Was The Night, a 2CD release fro... more info