THE SHINS OUT THIS WEEK

The new album from James Mercer’s THE SHINS is in stores this week, and those guys have proven themselves true friends of record stores. Not only did they choose us to premiere the song “SEPTEMBER” when they released it, they have also given participating stores a special 4 song acoustic EP, to give to you, when you buy the new record at their stores. So it looks like The Shins are true friends of you, too. DISCLAIMER

 
It’s been a while since James Mercer has released music as The Shins, and we’re happy to be part of the lead-up to the release of the new album in March. The “Simple Song” 7” (which has the song we’re premiering, “September”, as the B-side) is coming out on Valentine’s Day (sappily appropriate if you read the Rolling Stone article and see what Mercer has to say about the song!), and Mercer has gathered some new folks around him for Port of Morrow (coming on March 20) and the upcoming tour: Janet Weiss (Wild Flag, Sleater-Kinney) plays drums on some of the record, and Richard Swift from Modest Mouse, Yuuki Matthews from Crystal Skulls, Jessica Dobson and Joe Plummer will be hitting road with Mercer.

 

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