Brooklyn Indie rockers The Shins performed on Conan last night. They performed the song “No Way Down” off their last album, Port of Morrow. Read our review of the album here. Watch the video of their performance after the jump!
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MUSIC VIDEO: The Shins – It’s Only Life
July 11th, 2012 
Grant Trimboli The space bunny on The Shins‘ new album, Port Of Morrow, comes to life in a post-apocalyptic environment for their “It’s Only Life” video. These are the best visuals you will see involving a band utilizing their cover artwork to the fullest. Hands down. James Mercer is captured by the strange creatures and drag to […]
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2 Comments » The Shins Announce World Tour
May 29th, 2012 Grant Trimboli The Shins have announced a huge world tour run in support of their latest album, Port of Morrow, and UTG has all of the dates right here! These dates will spread from North America in May and end up back in the states around October. Support on select dates for this enormous tour will come […]
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April 18th, 2012 Grant Trimboli Today, The Shins launched a stream of their new animated music video for the song “The Rifle’s Spiral” and it is truly an adventure. Emmy-winning director Jamie Caliri creates an stop-motion animation world of eerie figures and landscapes to make us think outside the box. This song comes off the group’s latest effort, Port Of […]
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April 13th, 2012 Grant Trimboli The Shins graced Jimmy Kimmel last night to give the viewers some great tips to survive Coachella this weekend and perform some songs! The band discusses what footwear is appropriate for the event, the art of stage-diving, tree sex and much more. One clip you do not want to pass up. The Shins also performed […]
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REVIEW: The Shins – Port of Morrow
April 2nd, 2012 Josh Hammond Artist: The Shins Album: Port of Morrow Genre: Indie Rock Label: Columbia Records In life, there is a long ass list of things that people take too seriously. Religion, politics and The Shins new album top that list. The second that Port of Morrow hit NPR, masses of talking heads protested against its existence. Like a […]
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March 13th, 2012 Tyler Osborne The Shins are streaming their new album Port of Morrow on iTunes right now, all you have to do is click here to launch to get to the page! This is the follow-up to their 2007 release Wincing the Night Away, so to say that listeners have been anxiously awaiting this newest record is an […]
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March 11th, 2012 Grant Trimboli Indie rockers The Shins were the special musical guest on last night’s Jonah Hill-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live. This great performance of the band’s “Simple Song” is off of their forthcoming release Port of Morrow. Look out for this album to hit stores and everywhere on March 20 through James Mercer’s Aural Apothecary imprint […]
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