The National and Bon Iver are two of the biggest names in indie music, and they rose to prominence around the same time. The National cemented themselves as mainstays with their 2007 breakthrough, ...

In Big Red Machine’s first release, alternative heavyweights Justin Vernon of Bon Iver and Aaron Dessner of The National helm a collaborative musical experiment. While not an album pioneering musical ...

Now they've extended that collaboration into a new band and full-length album, also called Big Red Machine — and the scale of this team-up extends far beyond the two of them, incorporating friends, ...