Okkervil River frontman Will Sheff recently announced a new synthy solo side project called Lovestreams, and he's planning on posting his songs online one at a time rather than gathering them into an album-sized bundle. After debut single " Shock Corridor ," the second Lovestreams song we've heard is the slow-building "There's Video," which comes drenched in both sex and sax. Cleverly, Sheff has chosen to debut it in the form of a video. Sheff's actor/director friend Scott Coffey has filmed Sheff trudging around New York, using an old digital video camera and its in-camera effects to make [...]
Okkervil River frontman Will Sheff just shared a video from his new solo project Lovestreams. Will said on twitter that he was trying to be romantic, but it's definitely a scary, brooding kind of romance. [via BlackBook]

DOWNLOAD: Lovestreams - "Shock Corridor" (MP3) Will Sheff at SXSW 2012 ( more by Tim Griffin ) Jack Daniel's is "serving up great whiskey and great live music at legendary American Landmarks" with their new concert series . You can click that link to find the closest one to you (it happens in NYC, San Diego, San Antonio, and LA) and for those in NYC, you'll get yours on April 8 at Grand Central Terminal with [...]

It's no secret that we're huge fans of AV Club's Undercover series. Launched back in 2010, they've gotten an impressive array of indie-rock bands to come into their Chicago office and tackle songs from the likes of Wilco to Sufjan Stevens to Kenny Loggins to Adele. The pop culture site recently polled its readers to help formulate a new list of 25 tunes for an upcoming edition, offering up 68 song choices broken into categories like Ladies of the '80s, Whistling Songs and We Used2 Like U (pre-1985 U2). Earlier this week, the site revealed the results with the [...]

Lovestreams is Will Sheff of Okkervil River's new solo project. So we threw "Shock Corridor" at you last week and now we have the music video, by Devin Greenwood. The tune is a lot to get used to for old school Okkervil River fans, but after some adjustment "Shock Corridor" is a very interesting change of pace. No word yet on whether or not this LP will see the light of day or when that would happen. For a little background info from Will Sheff himself go ahead and scroll down after this music video, which [...]

Sadly, it seems that Okkervil River is on the back-burner for the time being, with Will Sheff going out on his own as Lovestreams . He just announced that he's going to be releasing a new solo effort under the moniker at an as yet to be determined date. He's offered the first listen up to the misses, which noticeably has his trademark guitar hiding, being traded in for electronic soundscapes. Luckily, the literary writing approach is still ever-present, which is one of Will's most endearing qualities. [...]

Lovestreams - Shock Corridor "When people think of “confessional” or “intimate” music, they often picture a guy fingerpicking an acoustic guitar, but I think sitting and whispering into your computer is even more weirdly intimate, or has the potential to be." I imagine Will Sheff alone in the dark. I imagine him hunched over. I imagine him whispering into a computer microphone, those old ones from the '90s, white and plastic. I imagine that the room is windowless. I imagine him sitting for days, whispering [...]

Lovestreams is a new project of Okkervil River's frontman Will Sheff . Last year he rented a Brooklyn basement and used it as a recording studio to record a project that he had wanted to do for a long time. He wanted to make an album by himself, for himself, with no expectations taken from his work with Okkervil River. It took him a year to make, and now we is putting the material out there for free, since it cost him almost nothing to make. That album is forthcoming. He has give away [...]

Love Streams - "Shock Corridor" Single from an upcoming album (get it here) Will Sheff's new solo project seems like a cathartic release or maybe he just needed to do his own thing. Identity can get lost when playing in a band. "Shock Corridor" has an electropop feel, and very different than anything you've heard from Okkervil River. That stated, you can tell it's Sheff, his melancholic vocals cloud through. On his website , he writes: "In the early part of last [...]

Quizás no conozcan a Will Sheff , pero sí si les digo que es el frontman de Okkervil River . Les aviso que vengo con buenas noticias para los que sean seguidores de la agrupación y a quienes les guste lo que hace su líder, ya que ahora anunció que incursionará en el mundo de los artistas solistas. No solo eso, sino que también presentó su primera canción. El nuevo proyecto en el que se metió se llamará Lovestreams y la canción que ya permite descargar de manera gratuita (¿recuerdan cuando esto [...]
Will Sheff construiu sua fama através de uma espécie própria, catártica, confessional e agressiva de indie-folk, na excelente banda Okkervil River . Mas após te fazer gritar e chorar com a simplicidade dos violões, ele resolveu prezar pelo seu bem estar trocando as lágrimas pela tentativa de passos de dança e os violões por sintetizadores em seu primeiro projeto totalmente solo, o Lovestreams . Sob a alcunha de Lovestreams , Sheff gravou canções de maneira solitária e simples, em um apartamento alugado no Brooklyn. Em seu site oficial, o vocalista e compositor [...]
Okkervil River frontman Will Sheff has a new project, one he's been quietly working on for about a year. On his website , Sheff writes that he rented a room last year and that he's been going there everyday to work on music from his new solo thing Lovestreams: "I decided to do a project there I’d wanted to do for years and years, which is to make an album by myself and for myself, an album that doesn’t owe anything to music I made before." And today, we get to hear the first song from the project. It's [...]
Check out Lovestreams, the new project from Will Sheff. Okkervil River frontman Will Sheff has debuted a new project, Lovestreams . Check out the new song, "Shock Corridor", and see what Sheff had to say about the new endeavor. Will Sheff on the new project: In [...]
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Uhmmm... Esto está interesante, ya que no esperaba que uno de los tipos detrás de Okkervil River fuera a incursionar dentro del mundo de los sintetizadores pero hey! En estos momentos ya cualquier cosa puede pasar, y qué mejor que hagan algo que suene bastante bien como parece que Will Sheff lo empezará a hacer de hoy en adelante. "Shock Corridor" es el nombre de este primer track que Sheff ha decidido presentar de este nuevo proyecto que acaba de armar en solitario de nombre Lovestreams, con el que al parecer tiene planeado poner a la venta un [...]

Stereogum Here's another thing that Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne can cross off of his increasingly insane to-do list: Record an hour-long radio drama about the human-head-shaped tumor on the inside of his leg. Coyne teamed up with McSweeney's, KCRW, and producer Richard Parks to put together the show, entitled Wayne Coynes Human Head Shaped Tumor . It's a continuous narrative in the style of Orson Welles's War Of The Worlds , and it features appearances and new music from a deeply impressive cast: Grizzly Bear's [...]

Here's another thing that Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne can cross off of his increasingly insane to-do list: Record an hour-long radio drama about the human-head-shaped tumor on the inside of his leg. Coyne teamed up with McSweeney's, KCRW, and producer Richard Parks to put together the show, entitled Wayne Coynes Human Head Shaped Tumor . It's a continuous narrative in the style of Orson Welles's War Of The Worlds , and it features appearances and new music from a deeply impressive cast: Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste, Bill Callahan, Okkervil River's Will Sheff, the Fiery Furnaces Eleanor Friedberger, [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive , Pop Culture , I Fought the Law , Politics as Usual Getty | Getty Most musicians have to tour, but traveling from city to city in a bus or van isn't always the ideal mode of transportation. Many jump at the chance to fly to gigs if it works financially and logistically, but a series of incidents over the years has resulted in some [...]
Generally, Wednesday is when the music things get going in Austin, and Tuesday is the changeover between the SXSW festival's Interactive portion, and the full-force band fare. And yet there were bands a plenty last night. "Tuesday is the new Wednesday," is something we heard someone say. Tragically, that person was taken out to an alley shortly thereafter and beaten senselessly. RIP, guy! We had our fleet of photographers - Pooneh Ghana , Linda Flores , and Trent Maxwell amongst them - taking in sets, and we hit some ourselves. In the gallery above you'll find [...]

words by Christopher Paragraph , photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin DOWNLOAD: Bird of Youth - Bombs Away, She Is Here to Stay (MP3) Sondre Lerche looking sexy as usual @ MHOW Friday night The Friday night show at Music Hall of Williamsburg featured three very different songwriters who all happen to live within a few blocks of the venue. The same is true for [...]

Will Sheff and company have just released a free ep, Golden Opportunities 2 . The record is a collection of covers available via the Okkervil River site in either .mp3 or .m4a formats. Havent spent a whole lot of time with the ep, or to be honest, the last album I Am Very Far . However, I consider this announcement of free music a nice reminder to dive back into their stuff. Download currently available on the Okkervil [...]