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Bon Iver's '22, A Million' Listening Party in Downtown Eau Claire

photos by Luong Huynh |

Bon Iver's much anticipated new album, 22, A Million releases to the world on Friday, Sept. 30, but hundreds of fans got their first full listen of the album Wednesday evening (Sept. 28) at 6:30pm in front of the Bon Iver mural outside The State Theatre at the corner of Eau Claire Street and Farwell Street.

As we now know, there are ten other murals related to 22, A Million across the globe in cities like London, Berlin, Mexico City, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Minneapolis – each representing one of the ten tracks on new album. Starting Wednesday evening, the album was being played out in full – via boombox and cassette – at the site of each mural. So Eau Claire was basically the kickoff to a global listening party. 

Fans who showed up to the listening party in Eau Claire got their mitts on a new Bon Iver zine – a collection of poster-sized artwork from 22, A Million printed on broadsheet newsprint.

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