Will Sheff's Lovestreams Debuts New Song, "There's Video," with a Video
The song does not appear to be a reaction to Death Grips' "I've Seen Footage" read more
Found in: Music, NewsListen to The Flaming Lips' Sci-Fi Radio Drama Featuring Bill Callahan, Grizzly Bear and More
The Flaming Lips have joined forces with McSweeney’s and KCRW to produce an hour-long sci-radio radio drama similar to the classic Orson Welles broadcast, War of the Worlds. Written by Richard Parks and Andrew Leland Foley, Wayne Coyne’s Human Head-Shaped Tumor is about a talking tumor on Coyne’s leg and features music from such artists as Will Sheff of Okkervil River, The Flaming Lips, Grizzly Bear’s Ed Droste, Bill Callahan, Eleanor Friedberger, Oneida and Nico Muhly with voice acting from Droste, Paul F. Tompkins and more. Check out the complete show here and a complete list of voice actors below,... read more
Found in: Music, NewsOkkervil River Updates Tour, Releases Music Video
According to a report from Pitchfork, Okkervil River's oft-forgotten about album from this year, I Am Very Far, is finally getting its first music video and its for the song "Your Life Past as a Blast". The video was together by frontman and producer Will Sheff and actually features vintage footage from Sheff's father's home movie collection. read more
Found in: Music, NewsOkkervil River Announces Additional Tour Dates
The guys in Okkervil River are tour-happy.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsOkkervil River, Titus Andronicus Photos - Atlanta, Ga.
Check out photos from Okkervil River's first stop on their ongoing tour at Atlanta's Variety Playhouse. read more
Found in: Blogs, 1000 WordsThis Week's New Album Releases (5/10/11)
We picked a baker’s dozen of noteworthy albums out today. Okkervil River gets more ambitious and The Antlers get a little less so (because how else can you follow up an album called Hospice?). Plus 75-year-old Lee “Scratch” Perry keeps working his mojo.... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesOkkervil River: I Am Very Far
Give Will Sheff credit. Handed a big budget for his latest album, the frontman for Austin indie rockers Okkervil River may have single-handedly propped up the Texas economy. On several songs, he’s deployed a 13-piece musical army consisting of two drummers, two pianists, two bassists, and seven guitarists, all playing live at the same time. Several other songs incorporate a string section, a woodwind section, a ghostly choir, and a tympani. It’s an audacious, ambitious, maximalistic approach, and in the process Sheff has reinvented the sound of his band. He’s figured out how to hold nothing back musically while remaining.... read more
Found in: Music, Reviews12 May Albums Worth Checking Out
For much of the U.S., this was a rough winter. But spring has more going for it than budding flowers and baseball games. May is packed with some great new music. We’ve highlighted a dozen albums we’re particularly looking forward to.... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayOkkervil River to Debut Forthcoming Album Live
Austinites Okkervil River are preparing to release the follow up to 2008’s The Stand Ins. But before I Am Very Far hits shelves on May 10, the band will perform the album live in its entirety.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsOkkervil River Offers Single "Wake and Be Fine" As Free Download
Okkervil River have released the single “Wake and Be Fine,” off their upcoming album I Am Very Far, as a free download.... read more
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