Blog: It's hard to Find a Friend

Say bye-bye to #2 and #4 In what I would imagine is a pretty messy situation, despite James Mercer's insistence otherwise, the Shins frontman decided to replace long-time (like before the Shins were the Shins) drummer Jesse Sandoval and keyboard/auxiliary man Marty Crandall. In their sted, the Shins now feature Ron Lewis of Grand Archives, and the Fruit Bats on Bass, and Joe Plummer of Modest Mouse fame on drums. According to Mercer, "It's an aesthetic decision. It's kind of hard to talk abut stuff [...]

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