Unleashed
Animal Joy is now available in the Americas and Europe! It can be yours at one of our upcoming concerts, your friendly local record store, subpop.com, or wherever else wax and plastic discs are sold. It will be arriving in the UK on February 27. Thanks to Sub Pop, EVERYBODY can stream the entire album [...]
Hear Animal Joy Now, Tour Starts Today
The wait has been long, but at last you can hear Animal Joy whole and entire courtesy of NPR though February 14. Meanwhile, tonight (2/6/2012) is the first show of the spring tour! We’re playing at the Record Bar in scenic Kansas City, MO. Check the Shows page for American and European tour dates, ticket [...]
Animal Joy is Coming to You
Animal Joy will be in your hands in a scant three weeks. Pre-orders are up on subpop.com. Pre-ordering from Sub Pop will get you demos of four Animal Joy songs and an exclusive original song, “Escape from Holy Mountain,” plus stickers! In addition, Sub Pop will be donating $2 of each pre-order to the Audubon [...]
“Just give ‘em the Grammy already” – GC
Our new album, Animal Joy, will be released by Sub Pop records on February 14, 2012 in the USA and Feb 27th in the rest of the world. It’s a very different beast (no pun intended) from the Island Arc albums, but we’re really happy with it. We recorded it in Austin with Danny Reisch [...]
Why I Love My (New) Home
Our promised big news at last: we’ve signed to Seattle’s Sub Pop records. We’re proud to be joining their excellent roster, and excited about the new album we start recording in a few short weeks. To celebrate, we’re releasing a couple of new items on our bandcamp page: The first is a set of live [...]
Looking Ahead
It’s springtime in Texas, and everything seems possible. For the first time in several years, we mostly sat out SXSW, though we’ll probably to be back next year – the only SW-related performance was a live soundtrack to some footage shot by Scottish filmmaker David Mackenzie on the remote island of Tristan da Cunha last [...]
The Island Arc Performance
On January 15th, 2011, Shearwater will present The Island Arc, the trilogy of albums that includes 2006′s Palo Santo, 2008′s Rook, and 2010′s The Golden Archipelago, in a single, complete performance at the beautiful Central Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas. This will be a one-time-only event – we’ve never performed these thematically-linked albums in order, [...]
East for the Winter, New Sounds in Tow
We’re prepping now for our upcoming East Coast tour with Damien Jurado. It’s taking us to some places we haven’t been in years, some that are entirely new (and long overdue). It’s also been long enough since the release of The Golden Archipelago that we’re taking first steps toward new recordings. I cranked up my [...]
October Surprises
In early October we’re going to be playing a pair of festivals – first, Matador’s 21st anniversary bash in Las Vegas, with a few bands you’ve heard of. Vegas seems like an illogical place to do almost anything, but when you figure that flights are relatively cheap from most cities in the US (to lure [...]
Willie and Waylon and Me
Before we head out to Europe again, we’re going to be playing a special benefit show on July 16th for our beloved Austin NPR station, KUT, in the Austin City Limits studio. Tickets are available here. We’ll be joined by some friends and longtime collaborators for this performance, and we’re going to play at least [...]
Lhude sing cuccu
We’re easing into the Texas summer after an exhilarating first round of touring in the US and EU. Not that we’re putting ourselves out to pasture – there’s plenty coming up, both Golden Archipelago-related and otherwise. First off, we’re starting a new European tour in mid-July; we’ll be revisiting some of our favorite places and [...]
Road Movies
We’re packed and ready to head to the west coast in the morning after a week back home. It’s been good to see friends old and new, and to get a snapshot of northern Europe before the volcano and the eastern US in a gloriously rainy spring. Along the way we’ve done plenty of horsing [...]
“Hidden Lakes” Mini-Doc
We released a pair of videos for “Hidden Lakes” yesterday; you can find them here. But we also wanted to post an exclusive version of the video shot at JM’s house, in which he talks about the TGA and some of the travels that inspired it. If you look closely you can catch some footage [...]
Download The Golden Dossier
The physical copies of the Golden Dossier are gone; that’s the bad news. But the good news is that we’re posting an electronic archive of much of it here; you can download a PDF and print a copy for yourself if you like.
“Black Eyes” mp3, Dossier Project, US and EU Tour Dates
We’ve just released a second song from TGA, “Black Eyes.”
TGA pre-order and “Castaways” free mp3
Over at the Matador site, they’ve posted pre-order details for The Golden Archipelago.
The Golden Archipelago
The Golden Archipelago, our third album for Matador, has a release date: February 23rd in the US, and a week earlier (the 15th) in the rest of the world.
Gearing Up
Back from Europe, and we’ve been putting the finishing touches on the album and artwork. We’re also plotting our first major US tour in a while, which will probably start in late March – and more Europe dates as well.
Men otemjej rej ilo bein anij
We enjoyed Barcelona and the Primavera festival back in May, along with our dates in the UK and northern Europe, to which we’re returning for a short run in September, including our first show in Leeds with our old friends Clinic.
TGA Recording at PHF
Photos by Ashley Garmon and Paige Maguire from a few days’ work on the new album with the mighty John Congleton. PHF is Public Hi-Fi studio; more about TGA to come.
JM and Thor Lecture Series Apr 22 and 24
Well, not exactly, but sort of. Two special events – click "read more" for the details:1) I’m giving a talk called "The Caracaras: Distribution and Ecology of the ‘False’ Falcons" at a meeting of the Texas Ornithological Society in Austin.
Yellow Bike Benefit May 21st Austin
We’re happy to announce a special all-ages benefit show for Austin’s own Yellow Bike Project on May 21st at Red 7, a cozy and awesome "punk/hardcore/metal" venue downtown. YBP are an all-volunteer outfit that operates a stellar community bike shop, rehabs old bikes, and educates people of all ages about the benefits of human-powered transportation. SW [...]
Sirius/XM Loft Session to air
We taped an in-studio set for Sirius 29/XM 50′s The Loft back in…September or October, I think the same day we did the Tiny Desk Concert for NPR. It’s set to air this week, at the following times (EST): Monday 3/16 12pm, Wednesday 3/18 2pm, Friday 3/20 3am, Saturday 3/21 12pm, Monday 3/23 1am, Monday 3/20 2am.
Redbud Alerts
I just came back from a few days in west Texas to find that the redbud tree in my front yard has decided it’s spring, which means the industry boondoggle known as SXSW is just around the corner. As usual, we’re playing a couple of shows, though keeping it a bit low-key this year as [...]
