Shearwater stopped by the Echo in Los Angeles in support of their highly touted Sub Pop release Animal Joy. While you may have seen their videos "Immaculate" and "You As You Were," seeing them live…   Read Story »

Here's the clip for Shearwater's Animal Joy cut "Immaculate," a quick-hit video that rifles through a carousel of still images, some of Jonathan Meiburg in full-on, PhotoBooth-documented despair,…   Read Story »

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 »