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It Just Keeps Growing!

Ted Waldbillig |

Along with growing folkies Daredevil Christopher Wright and fixture Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Megafaun – constructed from Chippewa Valley natives – are inching into the spotlight, garnering a post in Rolling Stone Magazine’s online Hype Monitor. The mag mentions their large beards while comparing them to Fleet Foxes. “The Fade” (a song) is likened to a “wondrous, rickety tree-fort of a country song,” however you’ll interpret that.

Megafaun have shared stages with the likes of Akron/Family and The Dodos, as well as sharing a band with Vernon. (And unless you've been imprisoned in a basement for the past 10 years, you remember DeYarmond Edison, a collaboration between Justin Vernon, Brad Cook, his brother Phil, and Joe Westerlund. The latter three would form Megafaun.)

Currently, the band is on a North American tour out on the East Coast and won’t be back hereabouts until July 21, when they stop into Minneapolis on their way to the West Coast. This just so happens to be the same day their new album, Gather, Form & Fly comes out, so start piggy banking now!