I know I just made some statements in the current issue of Volume One about being sick of all the local Bon Iver buzz – and I am, especially with ANOTHER (can you believe it?!?!) front page story in the Leader-Telegram this Sunday – but I stumbled over two new videos posted within the last week that I just have to pass along. If you type "Bon Iver" into YouTube, you get nearly 1,000 video hits, a few hundred of which are actually fans doing various covers of songs from For Emma. Crazy, but nothing new. Most are pretty standard, but some are amazing for various reasons. These two are pretty notable:

1. Here's one of a young a capella group from the Netherlands and their version of "Lump Sum." That song has some pretty thick harmonies, and these kids really nail it, percussion and all. They also do one of "For Emma."

2. And here's one of "Skinny Love" covered by Ruby Isle, a group who covers all sorts of indie rock songs (everything from the Decemberists and Fleet Foxes to Sonic Youth) and morphs them into a bizarre electronic/techno versions. Awesome. The video is really irrelevant to the song, but fun none-the-less.

If you enjoy these, I'd encourage you to poke around on YouTube and other video sites and you can find plenty more cover versions from all over the world. It's still just so weird, this Eau Claire band has made some SERIOUS impact all around the world...