Earlier this year, the Jonathan Meiburg-helmed Shearwater put out the Album Of The Week Animal Joy, perhaps the band's most lush and well-crafted release to date. The single "You As You Were" serves…   Read Story »

On SXSW's third night, we threw a party that went almost until sunrise. It was a pretty good time! Thanks to all who braved the line and came to hang, and salute to our estimable lineup -- Lakutis,…   Read Story »

For the A.V. Club's A.V. Undercover video series, tourmates Shearwater and Sharon Van Etten recently got together to cover the Tom Petty/Stevie Nicks nugget "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around," and I…   Read Story »

Last week, we announced our Range Life showcase, taking place at midnight on March 15 at the PureVolume house at 340 E. 2nd St. & Trinity, right in the middle of the brouhaha that is next week in…   Read Story »

Around midnight on the evening of March 15th, until well after every other bar in town has stopped serving legally intoxicating beverages, the Stereogum crew is throwing an Austin-based party with a…   Read Story »

Shearwater's Animal Joy is our Album Of The Week, and today the band came through with the video for album standout "Breaking The Yearlings," a clip that finds Jonathan Meiburg hallucinating inside a…   Read Story »

Shearwater's last three albums, the ones that brought the Austin band to prominence, all made up parts of a loose overarching concept-album trilogy, one that had something to do with islands and…   Read Story »

Shearwater's new album is out next week, and we've already heard three quite-nice takes from that affair, "You As You Were," "Breaking The Yearlings" and "Animal Joy." And now, as part of NPR's first…   Read Story »

Animal Joy, the new album from expansive Texan falsetto-indie troupe Shearwater, is imminent, and the songs "Breaking The Yearlings" and "Animal Life" have already made their way to the internet.…   Read Story »

Shearwater's eighth LP Animal Joy -- their first on Sub Pop -- is due out in February, and earlier today a new track from that affair, "Animal Joy," was featured in NPR's 'All Songs Considered'…   Read Story »