Shins' Crandall Off The Hook In Alleged Domestic-Violence Incident With Former 'Top Model' Girlfriend

Marty Crandall, a multi-instrumentalist for the indie-rock band, is off the hook in an alleged domestic-violence incident involving his girlfriend.

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Voxtrot - Voxtrot

Artist: Voxtrot Review: Over the past two years, this Austin, Texas, quintet built significant blog buzz with a couple of EPs and some hot South by Southwest shows. The band's debut LP offers more manna for indie kids: tuneful stuff with a fluid, detailed guitar sound and daubs of Eighties Brit pop and Leonard Cohen. Outfitted with Ramesh Srivastava's sweet melodies, cuts like the sorta swishy piano-and-strings-laden "Steven" are well-manicured pop -- slightly more openhearted counterparts to the Shins' hyp... Rating: 3 Stars

Published: 2007-05-31 Provider: Rolling Stone

We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank by Modest Mouse

'We Were Dead,' the Isaac Brock-led band's follow-up to its breakthrough 2004 hit 'Good News for People Who Love Bad News,' is their first release to feature their newest member, former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr. The Shins' James Mercer guests on three tracks. [Indie, Rock]

Published: 2007-03-16 Provider: Metacritic

SHINS WITHOUT KICK

IN the anatomy of indie music, the Shins bone isn't connected to the hipbone - it's wired straight to the brain. At the Theater at Madison Square Garden Wednesday, the Oregon-based quintet played a cerebral set that was smart and sonically pretty...

Published: 2007-03-16 Provider: New York Post Keywords: Shins, band, Girl, show, music

Life is good for the Shins

Arts & Entertainment"Thank you very much, Paul. Our next guests are a wonderful rock and roll band with a highly anticipated new album called 'Wincing the Night...

Published: 2007-02-15 Provider: Seattle Times

The Shins to Self-Release Fourth Album

Keeping pace with the changing atmosphere of the music industry, the Shins revealed that they would likely self-release their fourth album through frontman James Mercer’s Aural Apothecary label. While the band is looking to make a deal that will allow them to keep their masters, they’re also hoping to partner with a label to help assist with the marketing costs, the Shins’ manager said. That partnering label may be Sub Pop, who released the band’s first three albums. “The Shins have been a huge part of Sub Pop’s story. We’d love to continue working with them,” the label’s general manager Megan Jasper told Billboard. The Shins’ next album isn’t due out until at least 2009. [Photo: Getty]

Published: 2008-06-23 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Pete and Kate Get Real, RIAA Targets NIN Fans, Bumbershoot Lineup Announced and more

Pete Doherty and Kate Moss offer a glimpse into their private life in what may or may not be their MTV reality show audition tape. The Shins, Wu-Tang, and Panic! are slated to perform at this year’s Bumbershoot festival in Seattle, Sept 1st - 3rd. For our comprehensive guide to the best music fests this spring and summer, check back here later this afternoon. 50 Cent will guest star on tonight’s episode of America’s Next Top Model. Or you can watch baseball. That whole “Keith Richards snorts his dead dad” thing isn’t true, according to Kurt Loder, who we think knows everything. In case you needed another reason to hate the RIAA: They’re going after Nine Inch Nails fans who downloaded music that was deliberately leaked by the band. Metallica have announced their 2007 European tour, including a performance in Stockholm. Full tour dates after the jump. Jun 28 Lisbon, POR Super Bock Super Rock Festival Jun 29 Bilbao, SPA Bilbao BBK Live Festival Jul 1 Werchter, BEL Rock Werchter Festival Jul 3 Athens, GRE Rockwave Festival Jul 5 Vienna, AUT Rotundenplatz Jul 8 London, UK Wembley Stadium Jul 10 Oslo, NOR Valle Hovin Stadion Jul 12 Stockholm, SWE Stadion Jul 13 Aarhus, DEN Vestereng Jul 15 Helsinki, FIN Olympic Stadium Jul 18 Moscow, RUS Luzhniki Stadium

Published: 2007-04-04 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Morning News Roundup

Smoking Section: Modest Mouse, Zooey Deschanel, Kings of Leon

Modest Mouse’s ‘07 disc, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, is so awesome that we were inspired to dial up frontman Isaac Brock and find out what’s on tap. “My big priority is to finish up this Modest Mouse EP,” he reports, adding that tunes like “The Whale Song,” “Satellite Skin” and a track with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band (”The horns are frickin’ rad!”) are all repolished outtakes from MM’s last two discs. Also, Brock has been fishing with the Shins‘ James Mercer (”I haven’t caught a thing”), is building a workshop in his basement (”I need a nice bed frame”) and will sing with Frank Black and the Catholics on a re-creation of Lee Hazlewood’s ‘63 debut, Trouble Is a Lonesome Town. Finally, Brock told us that he and Johnny Marr will start writing new tunes in March and that in the spring, MM will hit the road with R.E.M. Says Brock, “I’m not really good at taking it easy.” * * * * “If I cloned myself many times over, started a choir, and that choir sang music influenced by midcentury pop — with a lot of great musicians.” That’s how actress Zooey Deschanel describes Version One, her first album, on which she collaborated with the brilliant M. Ward. The duo, a.k.a. She and Him, first duetted on a cover of Richard and Linda Thompson’s “When I Get to the Border” while working on the soundtrack to her 2007 film The Go-Getter. “I sent him some of my home demos, and he suggested we record them with some incredible musicians that he knew in Portland [Oregon],” Deschanel tells the S.S. With a band augmented by piano (played by Deschanel), strings and pedal steel, her jazzy lilt soars over cuts like “I Thought I Saw Your Face Today” and “This Is Not a Test.” “I have been writing music since I was a little girl, but the record features songs writt

Published: 2008-02-05 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock Daily

Johnny Cash Tribute Concert Canceled, Rolling Stones Doc Set to Drop, Lil Wayne Spills “Carter III” Details and More

A concert planned to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Johnny Cash’s famous gig at Folsom Prison has been canceled less than forty-eight hours after first being announced. The show was set to take place this Sunday and feature several members of Cash’s band present for the recording of 1968’s Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison. Prison officials nixed the event late Monday over filming rights, security concerns and disagreements with the promoter. Originally scheduled for release last year, Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Stones documentary will finally hit theaters on April 4. Shine a Light follows the band on and offstage during two 2006 shows at New York’s Beacon Theatre. Two Pantera fans are trying to get a statue of slain rocker “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott erected in his hometown of Dallas, TX. The duo has set up a MySpace page to track their progress. Domestic abuse charges have been dropped against the Shins‘ Marty Crandall and his ex-girlfriend Elyse Sewell. The pair appeared in court yesterday on charges stemming a bizarre altercation over the weekend. Lil Wayne has confirmed he’s almost done with his Tha Carter III, after the album was pushed back from a December 2007 release. Weezy tells MTV that Timbaland, David Banner, Just Blaze and himself are among III’s producers. Wayne added that he’s writing for Dr. Dre and interested in working with Mariah Carey because “I’m attracted to older women.” [Photo: Getty]

Published: 2008-01-09 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Morning News Roundup

Vegoose Festival Report: Rage Against the Machine, the Stooges, Shins, Daft Punk, More

For three years now, the Vegoose festival has been bringing Las Vegas the sort of eclectic acts the city normally shuns: metal, hip-hop, politically motivated tunage and indie rock’s latest beloved. This year was no exception: the first day alone delivered Mastodon, Public Enemy, M.I.A. and the Shins. Throw in Saturday night performances by Iggy and the Stooges and Daft Punk, and you might just have the most musically diverse day in Sin City history. (For a full photo gallery from Vegoose, click here.) From the start great music was plentiful. Gogol Bordello opened the festival with one of the strongest sets of the weekend. Backed by two percussionist/dancers, ferocious fiddle playing and singer Eugene Hutz’s manic presence, the band won over an audience that seemed delightfully surprised by the band’s gypsy-punk attack. As with many of the afternoon bands, the Vegoose set was only the beginning of their Vegas trip. After performing, the band did a signing in a makeshift Zia Records tent in the Vegoose field, before heading to downtown Las Vegas where bandmembers spun discs at Beauty Bar until 3 AM. Not everything worked. Bands like the Shins (who wore costumes) and Blonde Redhead (who did not) found their more intricate music bleed away by the acoustics of a vast field and competing bands. Vegoose has three active stages and overlap between sets made it hard to see everything even for the most dedicated fans. Perhaps the biggest disappointment of Saturday was competing sets between Cypress Hill and Public Enemy (who arranged for that?). Still, some of the Cypress audience popped over long enough to join Chuck D for a rousing chant of “Fuck George Bush.” Other of Chuck D’s pronouncements on affairs of State might have been a bit over the crowd’s head: His complaints that the Euro and Pound were kicking American ass ellicited a collective “huh?” As night descended with dust filling the air from the dirt field, Iggy and the Stooges came out and gra

Published: 2007-10-30 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Live Shows, Festivals

Starbucks Announces James Taylor CD/DVD Release, Tom Waits Judges Songwriting Contest, The Shins Add Tour Dates

Starbucks’ Hear Music label continues its trend of signing music royalty with plans to release James Taylor’s live CD/DVD One Man Band this holiday season. The set will feature Taylor’s recent greatest-hits-filled concerts from the Colonial Theatre in the Berkshires, as well as the stories that inspired the songs. Phil Collins (evidently not the Phil Collins) spent the last three years compiling footage of Smiths fans from Colombia, Indonesia and Turkey singing karaoke to cuts from Morrissey and gang’s 1987 album The World Won’t Listen. The fruits of the flmmakers’ labors will debut this fall at the Dallas Museum of Art’s tribute to the Smiths. Also on display: Letters a teenage Morrissey wrote to music magazines. Tom Waits, Frank Black, the Cure’s Robert Smith and the Strokes’ Julian Casablancas are among the talented wordsmiths that will judge this year’s International Songwriting Competition. Universal’s DRM-free MP3s are more like DRM-lite MP3s: The songs will still be watermarked to see who’s sharing the files on peer-to-peer networks. The Shins have announced additional autumn U.S. tour dates that’ll keep them on the road through the end of October. Full dates after the jump. 10/5 - Berkeley, CA (Greek Theatre) 10/6 - Santa Barbara, CA (Santa Barbara Bowl) 10/7 - Los Angeles, CA (Greek Theatre) 10/9 - Mesa, AZ (Mesa Amphitheater) 10/10 - Albuquerque, NM (University of New Mexico’s Popejoy Hall) 10/17 - Atlanta, GA (Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center) 10/18 - Charleston, SC (The Plex) 10/19 - Raleigh, NC (Progress Energy Center) 10/20 - Norfolk, VA (The NorVa) 10/22 - Columbia, MD (Merriweather Post Pavilion) 10/23 - New York, NY (Terminal Five) 10/24 - New York, NY (Terminal Five) 10/27 - Las Vegas, NV (Vegoose Festival) 10/28 - Las Vegas, NV (The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel) Photo: Cardy/Gett

Published: 2007-08-14 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup

Rodrigo Y Gabriela Dominate KRCW’s Indie-Heavy “Sound Eclectic” Event

“You guys had a lot of flavors to choose from tonight thanks for choosing the Shins…which I think is sort of a butterscotch,” quipped a bearded Marty Crandall, keyboard and guitarist of the Portland-by-way-of-Albuquerque quartet, as the band performed before a sold-out audience Saturday night at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles. The Shins’ set — which included an almost punk-y mix of oldies like “Know Your Onion!” and “So Says I,” modern classics “Kissing the Lipless” and “New Slang,” and newbies “Turn on Me” and “Phantom Limb” — capped off the evening’s seven-band lineup as part of KCRW’s annual Sounds Eclectic Evening, a benefit concert for the L.A. public radio station. In addition to the Shins—who played with a newfound confidence, possibly the result of their most impressive record sales to date — the night’s diverse set-list included local trip-hoppers Bitter:Sweet, noveau funk group Breakestra, Orange County It band Cold War Kids, delightfully crass U.K. pop princess Lily Allen, and a surprise performance by Brit-rockers Travis. But the show’s true breakout act was the Mexican duo Rodrigo y Gabriela, whose blend of heavy metal filtered through traditional Spanish guitar received standing ovations after every song. “We play crazy music, as you can see we love metal…trash metal,” Gabriela Quintero told the crowd mid-set, going on to play several cuts off their 2006 self-titled LP — including “Ixtapa” — and a soulful Flamenco-style rendition of “Stairway to Heaven.” At the merch table, the duo’s modest stock of CDs sold out about three minutes after their set’s end. They were an indisputably hard act to follow “We were standing backstage, shaking our heads saying “No, no, no. There’s no way we can follow that,’” Travis frontman Fran Healy told us at the show’s after party. “The thing is, you don’t get that these days. The Mexicans, they’re much more raw than we are.” Cold War Kids singer Nathan Willet echoed

Published: 2007-04-16 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Live Shows