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The Shins’ new video for “The RIfle’s Spiral” is definitely one of the creepier videos of the year.

Listening to Alta Mira is a true what-you-hear-is-what-you-get experience. There’s no studio trickery, no inorganic sounds, nothing excessively flashy. What there is is straight up indie pop/rock, and of a very high caliber.

“Port of Morrow” isn’t perfect, but its continuation of the growth demonstrated on “Wincing The Night Away”, combined with sounds familiar to fans of earlier Shins albums, make for a welcome listen, especially since it seemed for a time that The Shins might be done.

The Shins are ready to make their return to your daily musical rotation with their new album “Port Of Morrow” which officially comes out next week but is already available in full to stream from the band’s website.

The Shins new video for “Simple Song” sees them being old, dying, playing in a house being demolished, and sending their loved ones on a wild goose chase.

Check out another new track from The Shins’ upcoming album “Port Of Morrow”.

The Shins are releasing the first single from their new album next week, and now you can hear new track “September” as the b-side to the single.

The members of WALK have more than demonstrated they can write a killer rock tune without ignoring catchiness and pop sensibilities.

The second part of some anticipated albums for this coming year includes News Of The Fire, Nick Waterhouse, Passion Pit, Phoenix, POLIÇA, Sharon Van Etten, The Shins, Sleigh Bells, South Of France, Twin Shadow, Vampire Weekend, Woodkid and The xx!

Our first piece of new music from The Shins in almost fives years is finally here! Shout it from the pavement-tops!

The Shins have announced new album “Port Of Morrow”, their long-awaited fourth album!

Listen to “Make It Sound”, the new album by The Sea Of Cortez below. A little over a year ago this young band appeared on my radar who impressed me enough to write an Introduction piece about them. The five piece from LA at that time only had a couple of songs to their name but now, [...]

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Buy the album from Amazon – Vinyl / MP3 / CD Fruit Bats’ fifth LP, “Tripper”, kicks off with an urgent acoustic guitar, strumming with a kind of determination akin to the beginning of a long road-trip, an escape. The addition of a driving bass drum and a spindling, dirty electric guitar reinforce this sentiment, [...]

We’ve known Zach Schwartz (alias Zach Rogue) from Rogue Wave for a while now, ever since his failure in a grueling dot-com business venture landed him in the studio, cranking out the cloudy pop tunes that would become Rogue Wave’s first album, “Out Of The Shadow.”  Seven years later and after much praise and deals [...]

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