All free wi-fi places should offer loaner headphones. Especially the Panera Bread on University in Fort Worth. Here I am, happy as a clam and intent on writing a nice post for tMiM, only to discover I left my earbuds at home. That was dumb. So at best, I can share with you the most [...]
Broken Bells – “The High Road”
This is kind of old news but last week the first track from the collaboration between The Shins James Mercer and producer Danger Mouse (aka Brian Burton) was released for free download on their website. The track features Mercer on vocals, guitars and bass while Burton plays organ, drums, piano, synthesizer and bass. This was [...]
Some Days Are Better Than Others
James Mercer of The Shins and Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney have been paired up in the feature film Some Days Are Better Than Others. The director, Matt McCormick, calls it “lonely people trying to create their own abstract forms of communication. You could call it a charmingly melancholy look at abandonment.” The movies website says: [...]
Jesse Sandoval’s Taco Cart
A few weeks ago we reported that Jesse Sandoval, former drummer of The Shins, was opening up a taco cart in Seattle as his new line of employment. Nuevo Mexico is now open for business and VendrTV decided to stop by for a visit to interview Sandoval. Even Shins ex-keyboardist Martin Crandall stops by for [...]
Find of The Week Vol.1 No.15
Marching Band is yet another great band from Sweden making their way up through the ranks. Their 2008 release, Spark Large, starts out a little slow but picks up pretty quick so don’t give up on it too early or you’ll miss out. As just a duo, Erik Sunbring and Jacob Lind write and record [...]
Danger Mouse – Stickin’ It To The Man
Danger Mouse’s hotly anticipated new release, Dark Night of the Soul, is finally going to be released after many delays. Due to some “unspecific legal disputes with EMI” Danger Mouse, upon fear of being sued by EMI, is releasing the album as a blank CD-R with a note to the fans encouraging them to download [...]
More Shins News
Sorry about all The Shins updates but we don’t hear anything from them for over a year and now we are bombarded with the news of new songs and new members to the band so it must be reported. A couple of days ago we posted a video of the new song “Double Bubble” and [...]
The Shins – “Double Bubble” video
Last week I mentioned that The Shins had gone through a 50% line up change in getting rid of Keyboardist Marty Crandall and drummer Jesse Sandoval and replacing them with Ron Lewis from Grand Archives and Fruit Bats and Joe Plummer of Modest Mouse. Well now we have a fan video of their new track [...]
The Shins in Shambles?
After not as much as a peep out of The Shins since their disappointing 2007 release Wincing The Night Away it appears that they have been busy after all. Not recording, not touring much but they have been reshuffling the line up. Pitchfork has the scoop about how when The Shins took the stage at [...]
