Topic: The Shins

Tweet Comment 0 . When The Shins release fourth album Port of Morrow March 20, you'll be able to hear all 10 songs on glorious reel-to-reel tape ...

2012's Pop Forecast

With that dire Mayan doomsday prophecy hanging over the next year, we needed to stare extra-deep into our crystal ball to make predictions on ...

Sub Pop a bright spot in record industry

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Tweet Imperial Teen, "Runaway" Since the start of 2012 I've been fighting the urge to leave the city for a few days, and today I'm caving and doing...

New Shins Song "Simple Song"

You can check out a new The Shins' track titled "Simple Song" here. You can pre-order Port of Morrow here. The album hits stores on March...
By Max Mertens. . How many bands can say that they've become famous as the result of being mentioned in a movie? The Shins certainly can. In 2004...

Tapes n Tapes

Minneapolis indie rock quartet Tapes 'n Tapes exploded after being featured on a number of prominent music blogs and on the popular music-review website Pitchfork Media. Their second album, Walk It Off , followed in 2008, and was produced by David Fridmann, best ...
Chutes Too Narrow, The Shins follow-up to the breezy O, Inverted World builds on groundwork laid by the first album. The band, led by James Mercer, has expanded their sound, but still throw out a couple of more experimental tracks - such as ...
Picking on the now classic indie pop sound that Sub Pop is noted for thanks to bands like the Shins, Rogue Wave from SF comes a-knockin' with a re-issue of their 2002 debut Out of the Shadow. And they were off. Again ...
That's the best way to describe what the Shins (headed by the Kevin Spacey look-alike James Mercer on vocals and rhythm guitar, Marty Crandall on bass, Dave Hernandez on lead guitar, and Jesse Sandoval on drums) deliver in their third album ...