From the opening to the closing track this is exactly the sort of album any long time fan of theirs would expect.
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Vijf jaar na hun laatste album 'Wincing The Night Away' zijn The Shins terug. Hun nieuwste productie getiteld 'Port of Morrow' verscheen eerder deze maand op het label Columbia. Dit label bracht in 2010 het album van Broken Bells, de succesvolle samenwerking tussen Shins-frontman James Mercer en producent Danger Mouse. Bij Columbia zal een nog breder publiek in contact kunnen komen met muziek van The Shins. De breuk met het Sub Pop twee jaar geleden bleek de aankondiging van meer veranderingen voor Mercer en zijn band, die in 2012 een voorlopig eindstadium bereikt. Een nieuwe samenstelling, waarbij alleen [...]
ABX - It's Only Knuck (Crime Mob vs The Shins) Download: direct via Raptorhideout | Soundcloud WE GOT FIVE ON IT: We started this website five years ago today, posting STV SLV's "Rock Yo Sea Legs," a mix of Crime Mob's "Rock Yo Hips" and "Sea Legs" by The Shins (from 2007's Wincing The Night Away ). This recent Pitchfork review of the Shins' new [...]
True fans of music spend countless hours searching for that next great song, album or artist, whether it be online or in a local record shop. The beautiful thing about music in today's age is that technology has created an infinite supply of great music that is available to us at the click of a mouse. How perfect is that? We can discover a brand new artist on the opposite side of the globe in seconds without a radio or a music television channel. It only makes sense that a website so dedicated to this gorgeous universe of music would [...]
Get up close and personal with the Shins' frontman James Mercer in this two-part video take. James talks about the band, their new album, and how they came to Portland, Oregon. The Shins perform songs from Port of Morrow throughout the videos, Pt I & II.

Frank Yang If you were to ask me what I thought MOG did - and for the life of me I can't imagine why you would - the best I could offer is that they excel at getting my exhausted ass out of bed early on the Saturday of SXSW to go line up at The Mohawk so I can stand around for hours on end. They did it last year with a bill of Smith Westerns , Wild Flag , Okkervil River and TV On [...]
Katy Perry - Part Of Me on MUZU.TV . Katy Perry puts an end to Gotye's four week consecutive run at the top of the Official Singles Chart by flying straight in to the Number 1 spot with new track, Part Of Me. The US singer who recently split from husband Russell Brand, has been in the UK this week promoting the new single which is taken from the forthcoming Complete Confection edition of her 2010 album Teenage Dream. Part Of Me is Katy's third UK Number 1 and [...]

Dove vanno le papere del laghetto di Central Park quando ghiaccia? E che fine fanno le band quando si prendono un periodo sabbatico? Queste come milioni di altre sono le domande che non mi pongo, sono miliardi le cose che avvengono semplicemente sotto il mio naso e io non me ne interesso, probabilmente perché sono continuamente distratto da qualcos'altro oppure perché mi piacciono così tanto i discorsi che faccio da solo da dimenticarmi del contesto, che poi sarebbe il testo. Soffro il tempo che passa. "Port Of Morrow" esce dopo cinque anni di silenzio pressoché totale da parte [...]

Finally, it dawned on me this week: The Shins are THE indie/power pop of my generation. They'll be the band that, like Big Star before them, future fans look back to and ask how this band wasn't universally adored. [...]

All of the downloadable tracks from the past week in one single download for your listening pleasure! TRACKLIST: 1. "Grown Up" / Danny Brown 2. "I Don't Care What You Think Of Me" / Ican Ican't 3. "Bait and Switch" / The Shins 4. "September" / The Shins 5. "Simple Song" / The Shins 6. "Slow it Down" / Oddisee 7. "Shake Out Part of Me (Florence + Machine vs. [...]
ABX - It's Only Knuck (Crime Mob vs The Shins) Download: direct via Raptorhideout | Soundcloud WE GOT FIVE ON IT: We started this website five years ago today, posting STV SLV's "Rock Yo Sea Legs," a mix of Crime Mob's "Rock Yo Hips" and "Sea Legs" by The Shins (from 2007's Wincing The Night Away ). This recent Pitchfork review of the Shins' new [...]

What makes a Shin a Shin? Has James Mercer met a bandmate he couldn't live without? Does he ever regret that Garden State soundtrack? Do those of you who have been anxiously waiting five years for a new album wonder, after the first listen, what took so long? Listen again. Reminds us of: The Shins | The unrealized potential of Zach Braff The Shins: Official | MySpace
If you are looking for the infectious outbursts and pop ballads of The Shins from Garden State, then you may be a little surprised by what you find on Port of Morrow, released March 20, 2012. But if you've been listening to indie music since then, you won't be. Indie music along with our world has grown a lot since the first decade of the new millennium. It now competes with dubstep and other electronic genres or embraces and melds with them, becoming chillwave. Mercer, as referenced in the title of album's single, "Simple Song" has simplified his song-writing style. [...]
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Song: The Shins - 40 Mark Strasse [download here ] What's so good? In case you somehow missed the marketing blitz, The Shins have just released their fourth studio album, Port of Morrow . Even better, they've put [...]
A whole record of 80s synth-pop redux-tions of Dinosaur Jr. tunes? Yes, please. It's being released on Record Store Day ( 4/21 ) and done by the same project that remixed Built to Spill into 80s songs , The Electronic Anthology Project ( Brett Nelson of Built To Spill ). Here's a stream of one of 'em. Plus, four others to add to your shopping list. Enjoy thoroughly. Dinosaur Jr. "Tarpit" (EAP Redux) [ stream/buy ] from The Electronic Anthology Project [...]

Woooohoooo, new music! I finally had a chance to cruise around the internet and get my fill. Here are the newest songs to hit my iPod playlists. Enjoy. Free mp3: You Won't - Television (Big Ugly Yellow Couch session) Free mp3: Saskatchewan - Fronting Free mp3: Inspired and the Sleep - Take Pills (Instructed Bliss) [...]

As the hypnotic thrum of Clinic emanates from the far end of the theatre, their whereabouts initially appears puzzling. Heads of mouth agape aim off in every direction barring that of the stage, spewing inanity as they swivel. Perhaps the entrancing drones and dulcet tones of the Merseyside four-piece, dressed down in signature mutilated health care worker garb (scrubs and surgical masks as standard) are all too conducive to apathy yet such dispassionate indifference is fucking unreal. The reality is that James Mercer's glorified solo project that is The Shins , now tied up [...]
The Shins – Port of Morrow | CD Vinyl MP3 The Shins have been the musical project of James Mercer. The band's previous three albums have included the same supporting members. After 2007's Wincing the Night Away, Mercer revamped the...
After nearly five years since their last album, the long awaited, highly anticipated, and already wildly popular, new album by The Shins, Port of Morrow, was officially dropped this week. The release followed weeks of build-up and buzz, and was complimented by appearances on SNL, The Late Show, SXSW, and widespread coverage on mainstream media [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe