We will be playing one of NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts tomorrow, October 16th, at 4:30PM. This means that we’ll be huddled around Bob Boilen’s desk, playing a few acoustic versions of songs from Rook. It’s good to be on the road in America again, especially since this probably marks the end of this year’s major touring in the USA. The fall colors are beautiful here in the northeast. UPDATED: NPR has this performance archived here.
Available now at your friendly local record shop, on your favorite internet music service, and/or at the Sub Pop Mega Mart.
Tour alert: As a musical adventure (and to tiptoe back into live performance), I'm spending next March and June as 50% of a Very Special Edition of Xiu Xiu, in between sessions for the new SW album. I'll take all questions below. (JM)
Is this a hint that Shearwater will tour the new album? If so, come to Indiana please! Or at least Chicago.
Well, I don’t have the slightest idea who AJJ is, but I guess now I’ll have to find out!
Can we hope to see you in Europe in 2020?
So does this mean that Xiu Xiu will, or will not be playing Asheville?
Potential for new Blue Water White Death, eh?
JM, will take you birding for spring migrants/warblers in Toronto.
::: nudges tour gently into Montana :::
I’m there. Just not sure which because I don’t know where I will be living. 😂 will have to track you and Xiu Xiu down though. Upset I couldn’t go to their last Nashville show.
JM, any chance you might want to play a solo show in Santa Fe on March 30? I could ask around and make something happen. Will try to make CO Springs if not!
See you in Denver!
So this is weird, looked at the Seattle venue for March 25th and it shows a different band????
So weird, I was just wondering what Xiu Xiu was up to. Why no Indianapolis? :(
Any plans for a Scottish trip?
See you back in Brooklyn...when do tix go on sale?
50% as in just you and Jamie, duo?
Not going to tag along for the Austin stop?
Will you play You took your mistakes too hard in Cleveland? :)
Omg yeah
Andrew Dosher
Scott Palmer check out May 20th :)
Eric
Thanks to everyone who chipped in with such creative/stirring/hilarious/moving three-word song titles yesterday—we now have more than 500 to choose from. This may need to be an ongoing series....(JM)
Can’t wait to hear and see the results!
Thank you for letting us be part of the process.
Love you guys (my three words)X
Too many words.
Anytime, just ask
Asking Mr Kade for merely three words was never going to roll...😊
While we're making the new SW album next year, I'd like to make an parallel instrumental album, based on three-word descriptions from YOU. ("Europan benthic detritivore", for example). I can't guarantee we'll use every suggestion; but I'll post them on the wall in the control room. Fire away. (JM)
oh MAN, these are good. (JM)
I'm reading "What if?" by Randall Munroe and he just used the phrase "supersonic omnidirectional jet" which would make a great song title.
Whirligig Yarn Bonanza
" hurry, up, please" or "rook, two, thanks" or "anarchic acoustic angst". xx
"A true polymath" (Can be applied to a lot of people, but I'm particularly thinking about the Romantic era, so people like Shelley who were well-versed in philosophy, science and the arts. We need more polymaths these days!)
Revolutionary event horizon
Passionate, unexpected, collaborative.
Endless rough drafts (my daughter describing 3rd grade)
Cerebral joyous fervour
inspirational sustainable djent.
Joyful Canadian party
1. Montana Rockies Alpenglow 2. Unbridled Indigenous Spirit
Melancholic Meditative Musings
Harvest pumpkin frost
Introspective wallowing extrovert
Industrial Bossa Nova
Enlightenment through catharsis
Apotropaic Phoenix feather
Synaptic Axon Hillock Wilted Wattled Curassow Stroppy Contumacious Throng Exanthemous Zoonotic Orf Apoptotic Dendritic Phagocyte
the merciful ashes
ephemeral trembling seekers
beloved/immortal/indomitable or rose/teeth/beast
Windswept visceral melancholy
Tired, dusky, cadence
Swimming in bitumen
