At last night’s 54th Annual Grammy awards, Bon Iver beat out Skrillex, the Band Perry, J. Cole and Nicki Minaj for the best new artist award — and they even pronounced the band’s name correctly!
Win-win.
Taste of success — Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon took home two Grammys, one for best new artist. (REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson.)Need a crash course on Justin Vernon, the bearded Wisconsinite who performs as Bon Iver? Chris Richards called Bon Iver’s 2011 self-titled sophomore album one of the best of the year in his original take. And reviewing an August performance at the 9:30 Club, David Malitz deemed that same album “awards bait.”
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