Blog: Given and Taken in Ink

Seriously, NPR is on a mission to render all music blogging irrelevant.  I will have to start hunting down some really underground shit, because NPR has cornered the market on the quasi-indie scene (i.e. "indie" to your mom, but kind of well known to everyone else).  NPR has brought you advance streaming of new music from The Antlers, Okkervil River, Fleet Foxes, and Death Cab for Cutie, and now we can add Bon Iver's new self-titled album to the list. I am going on vacation for the next week, so this will be the last new [...]