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The Shins Bookended By Sad Canadian Moment

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) March 20, 2007 3:00 pm
"You OK with The Flow?" a cabbie asked shortly after picking me up on Saturday night on the way to the Kool Haus. Initially I said I was, but then got him to change it to CBC Radio 2 when I remembered this was the final night of Grant Lawrence's Saturday night CBC Radio 3 broadcasts. The show was heavy on nostalgia. When the driver...
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The Shins — Wincing The Night Away

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) January 23, 2007 5:04 pm
While too many of today's most popular bands spend all their time trying to reinvent their sound, it's refreshing to see a group who know what they do best and simply try to write good songs around it. The Shins aren't going to change the way you think about music, and they figured that out a long time ago. Wincing The Night Away won't make...
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The Shins to release new album in 2012

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By Mike Searle (CHARTattack) December 14, 2011 12:39 pm
It’s been four long years since The Shins released their last album, Wincing The Night Away (with Broken Bells sprinkled in-between) but it has been announced today that the indie-pop darlings will release a brand new LP in March 2012. The ten-track album, Port of Morrow, will be released through James Mercer’s label Aural...
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MP3 Roundup: Islands, Sad Baby Wolf (ex-shins), of Montreal

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) December 5, 2011 3:45 pm
1) Islands - "This Is Not A Song" "This Is Not A Song" is not a song from Islands' forthcoming LP, A Sleep and A Forgetting. It's not a subdued breakup tune, and doesn't make direct reference to songwriter (and Canadian indie music veteran) Nick "Diamonds" Thorburn. Psyche! Expect more tales of love and heartbreak when the record drops on St....
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WATCH: Mister Heavenly "Bronx Sniper" official music video

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By Kate Killet (CHARTattack) November 5, 2011 1:08 pm
Indie supergroup Mister Heavenly is comprised of Honus Honus (of experimental rock outfit Man Man), Nicholas Thorburn (of defunct Canadian indie-pop groups Islands and The Unicorns), Joe Plummer (of Modest Mouse and The Shins), and sometimes actor/bassist Michael Cera too. The music video for their reckless rock song  "Bronx Sniper"...
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I Read The News Today... For July 14, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 14, 2011 3:29 pm
Martin Scorsese (The Departed, Taxi Driver) has directed a new documentary about George Harrison. Living In The Material World will be coming out on DVD on Oct. 10, and will premiere on HBO this fall. It's got interviews with Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, Phil Spector, Ringo Starr, director and former Monty Python member Terry Gilliam (...
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The Shins Make Their Return

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 14, 2011 11:32 am
It's been two years since The Shins performed live, and four since they released an album. The band have gone through some difficult times since 2007's Wincing The Night Away was released. They left Sub Pop Records in 2008, stating they would release any future material through singer/guitarist James Mercer's Aural Apothecary label. Then in 2009,...
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I Read The News Today... For Oct. 12, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) October 12, 2010 2:26 pm
Now that Weezer are no longer signed to Geffen, it's time for their former label to cash in the way EMI did with that Radiohead with that box set: Death To False Metal, a collection of 10 unreleased Weezer tracks, will come out through Geffen on Nov. 2. —NME Former Barenaked Ladies singer Steven Page is touring the eastern U.S. this November. —...
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Broken Bells — "The High Road" (Live On Letterman)

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By CHARTattack Staff March 10, 2010 5:07 pm
Broken Bells appeared on the Late Show With David Letterman on Tuesday (March 9) night to perform "The High Road," the first single from their recently released self-titled debut. Check out Danger Mouse rocking out on drums!
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Broken Bells Scavenger Hunt Starts Here, Now!

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) March 1, 2010 12:57 pm
Are you really bummed that The Shins haven't released a new disc since 2007's Wincing The Night Away, but really excited about the upcoming self-titled album from frontman James Mercer's Broken Bells project with Danger Mouse? If so, you'll want to get in on this Broken Bells scavenger hunt that we're part of right away. Four pieces of an...
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Broken Bells — "The High Road"

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By CHARTattack Staff January 28, 2010 11:57 am
Broken Bells is Shins singer James Mercer and producer/DJ Danger Mouse's new project. In the video for "High Road," Mercer and Burton harass a small child, stealing his remote control car before discovering Mercer's "twin" has been the victim of some kind of crime and is being helped by police. There's also a random white...
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The Decade's Best: 2003 - Part Three

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) January 4, 2010 3:41 pm
In the last of a three part special, we look back at the best year during the last decade. The Scene Not Heard has already discussed the brilliance of Josh Rouse, The Decemberists, Isolation Years, The Long Winters and The Notwist. Now let's the top it off with some more. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow I was introduced to this album in 2004...
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Broken Bells, The Shins-Danger Mouse Band, Have Album Release Date

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By Siobhan Ozege (CHARTattack) December 16, 2009 1:59 pm
The concept of the "supergroup" has been done to death in the last few years. In 2009, groups like The Dead Weather and Them Crooked Vultures blew up, and 2010 doesn't show any signs of this trend stopping. You couldn't ask for a cooler duo when it comes to Broken Bells. The duo are comprised of James Mercer (The Shins) and Danger...
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Danger Mouse, Shins Frontman Are Broken Bells

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 30, 2009 11:09 am
The Shins' James Mercer and Danger Mouse have combined their musical powers to create a new duo called Broken Bells. Their first album will be out sometime next year on Columbia, and Danger Mouse and Mercer will reportedly release more than just one album. The two first collaborated on the ill-fated Danger Mouse/Sparklehorse/David Lynch Dark...
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Pumping: The Shins — Oh, Inverted World

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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) July 10, 2009 3:58 pm
Dear Natalie Portman, The Shins did not change my life, but I still like this record. See you on Top Chef, The Stereo
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The Shins Turn On The Night

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) June 23, 2009 12:47 pm
Indie rock's most unlikely stars delay inevitable success The Shins' third full-length, Wincing The Night Away, wasn't supposed to come out more than three years after Chutes Too Narrow. If everything had gone according to plan, the new LP would have seen the light of day as early as late 2005, and no later than the summer of 2006. But then...
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Former Shins Drummer Opening Taco Cart

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By Bianca Marcus (CHARTattack) May 14, 2009 4:00 pm
Former Shins drummer Jesse Sandoval has decided to try his hand at street vending. Sandoval and keyboardist Marty Crandall were recently turfed from The Shins and have been replaced by bassist Ron Lewis (Grand Archives, Fruit Bats) and drummer Joe Plummer (Modest Mouse) for the group's current tour and the recording of their fourth album that's...
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Shins Leave Sub Pop, Announce U.S. Dates

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By Jen White (CHARTattack) March 25, 2009 11:06 am
The Shins are reportedly working on new music, but the Portland, Ore. quartet won't be releasing the material via longtime label Sub Pop. Shins manager Ian Montone told Billboard.com last summer that the band would release their next album through frontman James Mercer's Aural Apothecary label, but hinted there might still be a partnership Sub...
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Sasquatch 2006: Saturday

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Photographer: 
Aviva Cohen
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The Gorge Amphitheatre
City: 
George, WA
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May 27, 2006
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Shins Member Marty Crandall And Model Girlfriend Avoid Charges

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By CHARTattack Staff January 9, 2008 6:00 pm
Shins multi-instrumentalist Marty Crandall and his model ex-girlfriend Elyse Sewell are both off the hook for allegedly assaulting each other last Friday after the Sacramento, California district attorney's office ruled on Tuesday that there was insufficient evidence to pursue domestic violence charges against them. "Basically it means there...
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