Lia Ices and Small Black Live at SXSW EPs Available Now via iTunes

Whether you’re kicking yourself for missing some of your favorite Jag artists at SXSW last week or you were there for every minute and are dying to relive the experience, you’re in luck! iTunes is now offering a Lia Ices EP and a Small Black EP, both recorded during their performances at the festival.

Lia’s EP, recorded at her March 17 show at Saint David’s Sanctuary, includes the following tracks:

Love Is Won

Ice Wine

Grown Unknown

New Myth

Twins

Get Lia Ices’ iTunes Live: SXSW EP HERE.

Small Black’s EP was recorded at Austin’s Central Presbyterian Church. Here’s the track list:

Camouflage

Photojournalist

Sun Was High (So Was I) [Best Coast cover]

Despicable Dogs

Panthers

New Chain

Get Small Black’s iTunes Live: SXSW EP HERE.

BON IVER Releases MP3 For Blood Bank EP

Jagjaguwar is proud to release the first high quality MP3 (nice try with all those crappy vinyl rips!) from the much anticipated BON IVER “Blood Bank” EP.

Leave it to BON IVER to make blood donation sound sexy. Have we ever found love at a blood bank? No. Have we ever made out in a car after donating blood? No. This song certainly brings us there, though, munching on cookies and drinking juice boxes in order to keep from fainting in that snowy parking lot. Red and white. Blood and snow.

Pitchfork was one of the firsts to weigh in on the title song:
“You can feel him stretching a bit, playing around with different ways to tell stories in his songs. ‘Blood Bank’ doesn’t really have a proper chorus– a leap up to a weary high note is as close at it gets– and there’s no bridge, either. Instead, it’s just a steady funeral march trailing behind one repeating chord progression, a lean and stark structure to match the song’s blown-out world.”

The EP will be released in digital, cd and vinyl formats on January 20th (19th in the UK) by Jagjaguwar, worldwide. No promotional copies will be available until that time.

Please enjoy the song “Blood Bank”

http://www.scjag.com/mp3/jag/bloodbank.mp3

Australians can catch BON IVER live later this month:
01/15/09 Perth, Australia – Fly By Night
01/17/09 Brisbane, Australia – The Tivoli
01/18/09 Melbourne, Australia – The Hi-Fi
01/19/09 Melbourne, Australia – Forum Theatre
01/20/09 Sydney, Australia – The Famous Spiegeltent
01/21/09 Angel Place, Australia – City Recital Hall
01/22/09 Sydney, Australia – The Famous Spiegeltent
01/23/09 Sydney, Australia – The Famous Spiegeltent
01/24/09 Angel Place, Australia – City Recital Hall

BON IVER’s Blood Bank Up For Pre-order

Jagjaguwar is pleased to announce that BON IVER’s newest release, Blood Bank, is available now for pre-order.

Your pre order copy will ship the second week of January, and the record will be available in stores January 20 in the US, January 19 in the UK.

Pre-order your CDEP or 12″HERE.