NPR streaming 'Bon Iver, Bon Iver' (listen), Collections of Colonies of Bees releasing GIVING (watch a video)

June 9, 2011

As mentioned, Bon Iver‘s new album comes out June 21 via Jagjaguwar. It’s currently available for pre-order in three different bundle packages. You can order the deluxe bundle with a 12″ single of “Calgary” b/w “I Can’t Make You Love Me/Nick of Time,” immediate download code for “Calgary,” T-shirt and album art poster. The catalog bundle also includes the poster and Calgary 12″ and download code along with For Emma, Forever Ago and Blood Bank. You can also order just the album and poster with immediate download of “Calgary.” All bundles are available as LP or CD.

If June 21 is too long to wait to hear the album, it’s currently streaming on NPR.

Bon Iver, who was recently heavily featured in the NY Times Magazine, will head out on tour with The Rosebuds (who just released an album) later this summer and stop in NYC August 9 at United Palace Theatre and August 10 at Prospect Park. The Prospect Park show is sold out but tickets are still on sale for United Palace.

Justin Vernon’s Volcano Choir bandmates Collections of Colonies of Bees are releasing their new album GIVING on August 2 via Hometapes. They’ve filmed a live video for the album track “Lawn.” IFC posted the video, along with this lineup change announcement:

The Japanese tour during which this video of “Lawn”–the first public taste of GIVING–was the last hoorah for the iteration of Collections of Colonies of Bees seen here. Mueller is concentrating on the glorious solo work and collaborations he’s done during the past few years for Table of the Elements (R.I.P.) and Type. Tom Wincek, who you see on stage right behind a stack of electronics, has moved on to lead his excellent outfit All Tiny Creatures.

So GIVING is an interesting double transition, since Collections of Colonies of Bees have never before been so concise and direct and since they’ll never exactly be this band again. The new Bees hit the road later this year with a new sextet lineup, reworked GIVING tracks and 40 minutes of new material.

Check out that video along with the album artwork and tracklist below…

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Collections of Colonies of Bees – “Lawn” Live

GIVING