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To promote the band’s newly released self-titled album, Bon Iver hit Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and NPR’s Morning Edition.  Watch and listen here.

Justin Vernon, Bon Iver’s lead singer and songwriter, made an appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon this week to discuss Bon Iver’s new album, Bon Iver.

Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon talks with Jimmy Fallon

The same night, Vernon performed the Bonnie Raitt classic, “I Cant Make You Love Me,” which Fallon said has “an extra twist.”

Bon Iver – “I Can’t Make You Love Me.”

Vernon also spoke with Jess Gitner, from NPR’s Morning Edition, about Bon Iver’s new album.  The two delved into the album’s song meanings, including “Holocene.”  Here’s what Vernon had to say about “Holocene”:

“Holocene is a bar in Portland, Ore., but it’s also the name of a geologic era, an epoch if you will. It’s a good example of how all the songs are all meant to come together as this idea that places are times and people are places and times are… people? [Laughs.] They can all be different and the same at the same time. Most of our lives feel like these epochs. That’s kind of what that song’s about. “Once I knew I was not magnificent.” Our lives feel like these epochs, but really we are dust in the wind. But I think there’s a significance in that insignificance that I was trying to look at in that song.”

Listen to Bon Iver – “Holocene” during Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. You can also hear the full NPR interview here.