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David Burger is the pop music/pop culture writer at The Salt Lake Tribune. Blind Pilot Spotlight show • The Shins and The Head and the Heart, with Blind Pilot, open Red Butte Garden’s first concert of the summer.

Sean is the movie critic and columnist for The Salt Lake Tribune. Follow him on Twitter @moviecricket. The Shins will open the 2012 Red Butte Garden summer concert series on May 28.

Marble Party"Lyle"Sausalito's Floating Records has a winner with this debut album from the pop rock band Marble Party, a young quartet that's been described as "Farmhouse-era Phish hanging out at a beach barbecue with the Shins.

The Stir Concert Cove at Harrah’s Council Bluffs Casino & Hotel kicks off its summer lineup with a performance by indie rock band The Shins Thursday, May 31.

Next weekend is packed with awesome shows. You've got The Shins on Friday, May 26, Tenacious D on Saturday, May 27 and Beck on Sunday, May 27. But don't forget to make time to go see alt. country/Americana all-stars, The Beautiful Train Wrecks at the Horned Hand on Saturday, May 26 ($5). It's the Bend/Portland band's album release party. And if you need any help deciding whether or not to pick ...

James Mercer chats to FL about drastic changes to the band, Heath Ledger's memorial, and the band's place in music today.

James Mercer chats to FL about drastic changes to the band, Heath Ledger's memorial, and the band's place in music today.

In an interview with FL The Shins' James Mercer has spoken candidly about parting ways with all of this bandmates.

If Zac Braff’s Garden State was The Graduate for the iPod generation, the Shins’ “New Slang” was its “Sound of Silence.” “You have to hear this one song, it will change your life,” Natalie Portman beseeched us all in Braff’s film. That scene sure changed the Shins’ life, for better and for worse — depending on where you stand on the two albums that followed, 2007’s winsome Wincing the Night Away ...

If Zac Braff’s Garden State was The Graduate for the iPod generation, the Shins’ “New Slang” was its “Sound of Silence.” “You have to hear this one song, it will change your life,” Natalie Portman beseeched us all in Braff’s film. That scene sure changed the Shins’ life, for better and for worse — depending on where you stand on the two albums that followed, 2007’s winsome Wincing the Night Away ...

              KCRW invited The Shins and a few lucky guests for an intimate "Berkeley Street Session" at Apogee Studios, and the set and interview with KCRW's Jason Bentley, is airing Thursday May 3 on the station. [ more › ]