End the Trend: The Lumberjack Look!

Is the Brawny paper towel mascot to blame for music's most tired fashion trend? SPIN's Ellen Carpenter investigates.
Band of Horses' Ben Bridewell

My friend Emily and I went to see Fleet Foxes play at New York’s Webster Hall on Sunday night. After procuring two Bud Lights (because we’re classy), I came up with a fun drinking game: Every time we saw a guy with a bushy beard, we’d take a gulp; for a bearded guy in buffalo-check flannel, two gulps.

I’m still nursing a hangover.

Outside Lands '08 Video: Bon Iver

The Wisconsinites' afternoon set on Sunday had all the makings of a landmark moment in Golden Gate Park.
Justin Vernon as Bon Iver / Photo by Stefanie Michejda

It was my first time seeing Bon Iver, and I cleared my schedule to catch their set on Outside Lands' Presidio stage on the strength of one immensely compelling statement from a trusted source about the band's recent two-night stand in New York: "I wept.

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