Singer of the week: Bon Iver

"It’s not about giving back. I think it’s about getting on your hands and knees and digging out what it already has. It’s in us. It’s in the town. It’s in the land. It’s in the people. It’s in the music. I think it just needs breathing room."- Justin Vernon

American band, Bon Iver, consista of Justin Vernon, Mike Noyce, Sean Carey and Matt MacCaughan. The name comes from a French play named "bon hiver"-good winter. The singles from the 2006 album "For Emma, Forever ago", a record he had made himself the previous year, over three months, while living in a hunting cabin, entered the UK Official Singles Chart.

Singer of the week:Lou Rhodes

Sometimes I think, "My God, I keep writing all these love songs," and I really struggle with that. I think I'm a bit of an emotional junkie, you know? It seems to be what consumes me. The heart never ceases to provide me with subject matter. I don't know why that is. Someone asked me the other day, "Are you in love with being in love?" And I couldn't really answer that question. -Lou Rhodes


Lou Rhodes, former lead singer of electronic group Lamb, left her band and realeased her own solo folk albums: 2006- Beloved One, 2007-Bloom, 2010- One good thing.

Her music is very intimate, passionate, soothing, expressed from the heart, mostly with guitars, sometimes with a fluite, violin or piano.

Singer of the week: Ani DiFranco

"we're 90% metaphor with a leanness of meaning, approaching hyper-distillation" - Ani DiFranco

Poet, SongWriter, Singer, Grammy Winner, Activist, Ani DiFranco isn't just the singer of a week. Through her music she speaks about racism, hypocrisy, homophobia, women's rights, but her voice is better described by the Vanity Fair magazine as "like the murmur of a lover who knows every last secret and decides to stay.”

“ She’s got the gift of lyrical precision—nothing cuts to the core quite like the resolution of DiFranco rhyme.” —Billboard

Singer of the week: Sharon Van Etten

"Sharon Van Etten plays bittersweet neofolk so slow, spare and subtle that you might have to crane your neck to hear it. The Brooklyn songsmith’s tunes are definitely worth the effort.” – Time Out New York

At the age of 25 she left her town and her boyfriend to make music in New York. Asked what her music sounds like, Sharon answered:" Folk. Really simple guitar. I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me."