Stereogum — Dirty Projectors' first new album in five years is stunningly evocative and wildly inventive, the sort of boundary-pushing album that comes along pretty infrequently. (Bon Iver's 22, A Million is one in recent memory; Art Angels another.) Oddly e... more info

Stereogum — The Best New Artist Grammy award has a fascinating and bizarre history. The Beatles won it. Bob Newhart won it. Bon Iver won it. Bette Midler won it. Christopher Cross won it. Milli Vanilli won it and then had to give it back when the world found out... more info

Nialler9 — A bunch of tiers of Forbidden Fruit tickets went on sale yesterday and some sold out very quickly. With headliners Flying Lotus, Bon Iver, Aphex Twin and Orbital, already announced, the organisers announced more names today including: more info

Chorus.fm — Stereo Hideout does these really cool mashups of classical music with pop music. And they’re not just remixes, but actual new arrangements played an orchestra and recorded. Some of my favorites are Copland v. Bon Iver, Brahms v. Radiohead, and Beet... more info

Nialler9 — After last week’s reveal of Orbital as Saturday headliners, today it’s been announced that Aphex Twin return to play Forbidden Fruit and headline the Sunday night after playing the festival’s inaugural outing back in 2011. That adds to th... more info

Nialler9 — Fionn Regan will release his first album in five years this April 14th. The Meetings of the Waters arrives after Regan’s song was recently sampled on Bon Iver’s 22 A Million album, which resulted in the pair playing together at Berlin’s M... more info

Nialler9 — Forbidden Fruit have announced that the reunited Orbital are playing the festival this year on the Saturday June 3rd. That adds to the recent news that Bon Iver will curate and headline the Monday June 5th date along with Flying Lotus, The Stav... more info

Stereogum — Our First 100 Days, the 100-day anti-Trump charity project from the Secretly Group and 30 Days, 30 Songs, gave us two of the past week's five best songs. And now it's given us another good one in the form of "Come To Me," an eight-minute track from B... more info

Obscure Sound — By their name Evil Astronaut you’d expect some type of menacing sound. That’s not exactly the case. On “Orbit Berlin”, this group from Gothenburg, Sweden shows a calming, developing vein of expansive folk/rock, reminding of earlier Bon Iver a... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — With the release of their expansive new album 22, A Million, Bon Iver brought the album to life this year, including a gigantic 9-show run in New York. After playing shows at Pioneer Works, Hammerstein Ballroom. The Capitol Theatre and Kings Theatre,... more info