News
Also: Band hits the Road With St. Vincent
Mar 28, 2012
By Laura Studarus
Shearwater is out on the road with St. Vincent in support of this year’s album, Animal Joy. Even so, the band found time to premiere a new video for album cut, “You as You Were.” More
Issue Also Features: Air, Bear in Heaven, Best Coast, Andrew Bird, Chairlift, Dan Deacon, First Aid Kit, Grimes, Spiritualized, Tegan and Sara, and more
Mar 12, 2012
By Laura Studarus
Under the Radar’s Winter (March/April) Issue will be hitting the stands soon. The issue features an In the Studio 2012 themed cover with the frontmen of three notable acts set to release new albums later this year—Dirty Projectors’ Dave Longstreth, Grizzly Bear’s Ed Droste, and Twin Shadow’s George Lewis Jr. The issue also features interviews with Air, Bear in Heaven, Best Coast, Andrew Bird, Chairlift, Dan Deacon, First Aid Kit, Grimes, of Montreal, Frankie Rose, Spiritualized, Tame Impala, Tegan and Sara, and much more. More
Apr 22, 2011
By Lauren Barbato
Sub Pop welcomes a new member to their family today. More
New Song, "Castaways," Available for Download
Dec 02, 2009
By Kyle Lemmon
Shearwater is releasing their sixth LP, The Golden Archipelago soon. It's dropping February 23rd in North America (and February 15th internationally), via Matador. The forthcoming long-player is "the third album in a triptych of excursions about man's impact on the natural world." More
Interviews
Winging It Across the World
May 21, 2012
By Stephen Humphries
Like the migratory seabirds they’re named after, the band Shearwater will spend much of the year traversing the globe. The band, led by singer/songwriter Jonathan Meiburg, has just finished the first of three European tours scheduled in 2012 and is on the second leg of an American tour as the support act for St. Vincent. More
Reviews
Feb 16, 2012
By Austin Trunick
Shearwater’s three-album cycle that started with 2006’s Palo Santo and closed with 2010’s The Golden Archipelago—dubbed by the band as “The Island Arc”—explored a single musical and emotional commonwealth, driven by lush, almost progressive instrumentation and frontman Jonathan Meiburg’s affecting vocals. More
