The Shins are looking for an arrangement that would allow them to release their next album through Aural Apothecary, guitarist/singer James Mercer's label.
Keith Buckley wants you motherfuckers to know that his side project, The Finale, has posted a cover of a song from The Shins, "Gone for good", on their myspace. page.
Marty Crandall, keyboardist in The Shins, has been released from jail just over 48 hours after he was arrested over an alleged incident involving his girlfriend.
After being on the market for a few months, The Bluegrass Tribute to The Shins is breaking back into the limelight due to Subpop Records and the band's official website mentioning and selling the disk (also available on iTunes and CMH Records' read more]
The Shins have announced that their second single from Wincing the Night Away will be "Australia," and it will be released on April 9th following their forthcoming UK tour.
Congratulations to The Shins for selling 117,991 copies of their new album Wincing The Night Away and opening at No. 2 (with No. 1 being Pretty Ricky). They are No. 1 on Top Independent Albums, Top Digital Albums, Top Internet Albums and the Top Tastemakers chart, and their first single "Phantom Limb" is top 20 on Billboard's Modern Rock chart. Sub Pop Records had never opened higher than No. 79 before.
KCRW's A Sounds Eclectic Evening 6 will be on April 14th and bands include The Shins, Lily Allen, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Cold War Kids and Bitter:Sweet. It'll be at the Gibson Ampitheatre in Los Angeles and there are plenty of other artists (including a special guest) to be announced later. Tickets go on sale February 27th on Ticketmaster but there will be a pre-sale for exclusively KCRW members on February 15th on KCRW.com. Proceeds from this will...[read more]
