Roken is Dodelijk is a French group from Lille, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, comprising of Jay in Space, on guitar/bass Lena Deluxe on keys/tambourine, Guiguit on bass/harmonica, Nico on drums/glockenspiel and Foux du Fafa on guitar. Explaining their bizarre name: "Roken is Dodelijk". Maybe it’s from an iron will that nobody ever remember what to call them, it means "smoking is dangerous", that’s it.

It's hard to believe that the album "For Emma, Forever Ago" is the work of one man. But when Justin Vernon's old band split he hauled himself (and presumably plenty of instruments and recording equipment) to his dad's hunting cabin in the woods of Wisconsin for the coldest season and worked through his issues in musical form. And so the name boniver was borne from the French for "good winter"--"bon hiver". Like Dylan, Justin Vernon aka Bon Iver (it's a one-man show) understands that simple, acoustic-led arrangements married with lyrical depth can really pack a punch.