Sharon Van Etten: “Just Like Blood”
Sharon Van Etten’s I Don’t Want to Let You Down could be passed off as filler; coming off of 2014’s beautifully soul crushing Are We There, Van Etten would be hard pressed to create anything so affecting or so ...
Sharon Van Etten: “I Don’t Want to Let You Down”
The Green Bay Packers’ 2014 season has been over for about a week now, and that only means one thing: The 2015 Sharon Van Etten season is in full swing. This year the Packers were knocked out of the playoffs in...
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Pitchfork Music Festival 2014
Photos and Words by Riley Beggin
Hundred Waters
Florida-based digital folk group Hundred Waters opened up the festival with a short but lovely set. Their austere sounds and unassuming presence combined w...
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Pitchfork Music Festival 2014
This weekend brings us the annual Pitchfork Music Festival, where music lovers from far and wide come to enjoy the splendor of the best new and up-and-coming artists. Lucky for you, we at Jonk Music have laid o...
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Sharon Van Etten
Sharon Van Etten’s music has always exuded both feelings of escape and imprisonment. Over three full-lengths and a mini-album, she’s split her time covering her horrid past and looking ahead at what the future ...
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Pitchfork Music Festival 2014
2014 marks the ninth year that Pitchfork Music Festival will rock Chicago’s Union Park. Unlike most festivals, where the trend seems to be the bigger the better, Pitchfork Media knows that stagnating the size o...
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Sharon Van Etten
Are We There
If you are a human being with working emotions, there are plenty of albums that will make you cry. That’s not what we’re dealing with here. Sharon Van Etten has become famous for exploring the dark convolution ...
Sharon Van Etten: “Taking Chances”
Having spent the entirety of her career looking back at her past, it appears that Sharon Van Etten is ready to turn her gaze upon the present. Her current single “Taking Chances” takes its title to heart, showi...
Sharon Van Etten: “Magic Chords”
Sharon Van Etten should consider herself lucky to have a whole album that so clearly documents her growth as an artist. It's like looking at an old book of photographs and realizing how far you've come; Van Ett...
Sharon Van Etten
“Give Out”
Sharon Van Etten took around a calendar year to record Tramp. The broken up recording process took place while Van Etten was virtually homeless in between touring stops. The studio — a converted garage in Brook...
Sharon Van Etten
“Serpents”
When you're the best thing to come out of New Jersey since Bon Jovi, you carry a decent amount of weight on your shoulders. Also when names like Pitchfork and NPR give you accolades of praise, you carry a lot o...
Sharon Van Etten
"Peace Signs"from the album Epic2010iTunesCompared with Sharon Van Etten's downbeat 2009 debut Because I Was in Love, her newest Epic really does sound larger than life. On the first album, the Brooklyn folkie'...