The Shinshave long used kaleidoscopic illustrations for their album covers — artistic embellishments of nature that exist somewhere between the everyday and the fantasies of Dr. Seuss. Their debut release, 2001’sOh, Inverted World, depicted the simplistic blooms of a plant, while its follo...
— -- intro: This week, '90s alt-rock group Bush releases its seventh album;The Shinsrelease their first album in five years; The Magnetic Fields release a 50-song collection in honor of leader Stephin Merritt’s 50th birthday; British folk singer Laura Marling delivers an entrancing new al...
Hackman washes her hands of the original tempo and performs a sparse—but not without some synths and The Shins’ original guitar riff—arrangement that sounds as if it could be off Daughter’s 2013 album,If You Leave. Much like the first two tracks, many of the songs onCoversremove a ha...
35. The Shins"New Slang" [album covers version][Dir: Lance Bangs; 2001] Lance Bangs and the Shins slyly recreate a whole load of classic indie rock album covers-- we won't give away which, that would spoil the fun-- in a video that went from a knowing, inside joke between indie ...
Consequently, the band's third album, Wincing the Night Away (2007), was a major success for the group, peaking at number two on the Billboard 200 and earning a Grammy Award nomination. Following this, the Shins signed to Columbia Records and Mercer parted ways with the entire original ...
The Rolling Stones' latest studio effort, the rock 'n' roll covers albumBlue & Lonesome, emerged back in 2016. The group's last original studio album,A Bigger Bang, came out in 2005. The Stones completed their "Sixty" world tour earlier this year with Jordan on the drums. ...
On Wednesday they shared its third single, “Track Five,” which is actually track six on the album. The propulsive song was shared via a self-directed video.Water From Your Eyes are Nate Amos and Rachel Brown. Brown had this to say about the new song in a press release:...
The “New Slang” music video references a bunch of classic indie rock album covers. What was that filming process like? That was a lot of fun. That idea to do that was the video director Lance Bangs’. We all got really into it. It was fun. Marty [former Shins keyboardist Martin ...
This album needs to be played regularly to make sure you are still alive. The Shins – Wincing the Night Away (2007)The third album from the Albuquerque indie rock quartet was their first release after Natalie Portman proclaimed them life-changing in the film Garden State. There was a lot...
the San Francisco-via-Albuquerque trio rip through 12 fuzzy tracks about scooters and tree forts in under 30 minutes. Although Henry’s Dress would break up just a year later—Linton notably went on to form the Aislers Set—their lasting influence touched their Albuquerquepeersthe Shins and, ye...