the Shins

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. Name for You – the Shins

2. Sleep Apnea – Beach Fossils

3. Let Down – Bored Nothing

4. 17 – Youth Lagoon

5. Paul – Big Thief

6. Rituals – Pill Friends

7. Anthems for a 17 Year Old Girl – Broken Social Scene

8. Mood – Porches

9. Nobody’s Baby – The Sweater I Gave You

10. Swing Lo Magellan – Dirty Projectors

11. Radical – It Looks Sad.

12. White Gloves – Khruangbin

13. Katy Song – Red House Painters

14. Little Fang – Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks

15. Spoiled – Infinity Crush

16. Told Ya So – Adult Mom

17. Gloomy Planets – The Notwist

18. Goddess On A Hiway – Mercury Rev

19. Black Rice – Women

20. Sandy – Jackson Scott

Bon Iver, the Shins, Ryan Adams, Regina Spektor planned for “A Prairie Home Companion”

Bon Iver, the Shins, Regina Spektor, and Ryan Adams are all planned to be on the Minnesota Public Radio program “A Prairie Home Companion” in January. The show is hosted by mandolinist Chris Thile and will be on the road for several episodes. On January 7th, the Shins and Spektor will be on a live broadcast from the Paramount Theatre in Seattle. On January 14th, Justin Vernon and Beth Stelling will go live from the Symphony Center in Chicago. Ryan Adams will appear live on January 21st from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California.

Also, there will be a broadcast from the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on February 4th, before the show heads back to St. Paul, Minnesota for February 11th and 18th.

The Shins putting final touches on their first album in four years
On Thursday night, The Shins’ frontman James Mercer posted a video on Instagram that had a fragment of a new song with the message: “Final mixing of a new Shins record is underway. I’ll post more soon! J”.When finished, the album will be the band’s first since 2012’s Port of Morrow, fitting in with their trend of releasing a new album every four or five years.Check out the new clip below via The Shins’ official Instagram.

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The Shins tease at new music

The Shins released their last record in 2012, Port of Morrow. Now, however, it seems as though new material is on its way. In a “#shinstagram” post tagged under the name of James Mercer’s record label, Aural Apothecary, the band released a snippet yesterday of what sounds like new music. Hear it below.

Since Port of Morrow, the Shins have released a new song, “So Now What,” for the soundtrack for Zach Braff’s film Wish I Was Here in 2014. Mercer also released After the Disco with Broken Bells, his duo with Danger Mouse that year. Mercer’s band before the Shins, Flake Music, also reissued the 1997 album When You Land, It’s Time to Return,.

Watch the video for Port of Morrow‘s “It’s Only Life:”

The Shins expected to release new music

Even though Christmas is not for another week, the Shins received their presents early. Recently, the band learned that their cover from 2o12 of Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime” had topped Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” as the most popular song during the holidays among shoppers, according to PlayNetwork, a company that creates playlists for stores across the US.

“Well, we’ve always been super-popular on the Island of Misfit Toys so it was just a matter of time before the human world embraced our incredible Christmas spirit!” Mercer told EW.com after hearing about the honors.


It’s not just The Shins who have been graced by good news about the band. The group’s label Columbia sent an email that promised that new music would be on its way in 2016. “Happy Holidays from The Shins,” the message reads. “New year, new music!”

New material at all from the band would be the first since “So Now What,” the band’s part in Zach Braff’s 2014 film, Wish I Was Here. The Shins’ last full-length releases was 2013’s Live at Third Man Records and 2012’s Port of Morrow.

Parquet Courts to release Live at Third Man Records

The indie rock band Parquet Courts played a set at Hack White’s Third Man Records in June. The recording of the performance will be released on March 3rd.

Named Parquet Courts: Live at Third Man Records, the band played 11 tracks from their discography including Sunbathing Animal “Black & White,” “Always Back In Town,” and “Dear Ramona” from Sunbathing Animal.

Listen to the clips of live versions of “Vienna II” and “Sunbathing Animal” here and see the tracklist below.

Parquet Courts: Live at Third Man Records Tracklist:
01. Duckin & Dodgin
02. Bodies
03. Black & White
04. Vienna II
05. Always Back In Town
06. Dear Ramona
07. Descend
08. Instant Disassembly
09. Raw Milk
10. Into the Garden
11. Sunbathing Animal

The live album is the latest of the installment in the label’s direct-to-acetate live album series. Previous bands and artists that have performed were The Shins, King Tuff, Divine Fits, and The Kills.

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. Ragged Wood – Fleet Foxes

2. Mansard Roof – Vampire Weekend

3. The World at Large – Modest Mouse

4. Don’t You Evah – Spoon

5. Caring is Creepy – The Shins

6. You Only Live Once – The Strokes

7. Lazaretto – Jack White

8. Glacier – James Vincent McMorrow

9. Not A Crime – Gogol Bordello

10. Pink Wonton – Man Man

11. Cayucos – Cayucas

12. For Someone Far Away – Jordan Velez

13. Grand Optimist – City and Colour

14. Sugar – Shout Out Louds

15. Change Your Mind – The Killers

16. Out of Control –  Clear Static

17. Many of Horror – Biffy Clyro

18. Would That Not Be Nice – Divine Fits

19. Percussion Gun – White Rabbit

20. You, Me and the Bourgeoisie – The Submarines

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) – Arcade Fire

2. Under the Texas Sky – Ferraby Lionheart

3. X’s On Your Eyes – Nightmare and the Cat

4. 2 Atoms in A Molecule – Noah and the Whale

5. New Slang – the Shins

6. Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa – Vampire Weekend

7. Mississippi Isabel – King Charles

8. Can’t Stop Now – Keane

9. Acts of Man – Frightened Rabbit

10. Relax, Take it Easy – MIKA

11. Thieves & Kings – the Peach Kings

12. Light Out – Javelin

13. Lovers -Brothertiger

14. Silver Screen – Beat Connection

15. I Wanna Go – Summer Heart

16. Corvette Cassette –  Slow Magic

17. Tonight – Tourist

18. Lover’s Spit – Broken Social Scene

19. The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

20. Walking – The Dodos

Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. Lonesome – Dr. Dog

2. Turn on Me – The Shins

3. We Will Become Silhouettes – The Postal Service

4. Havana Affair – Ramones

5. Put Me to Work – PAPA

6. Dancing Song – Little Comets

7. High – Young Rising Sons

8. No Fit State – Hot Chip

9. Cheated Hearts – Yeah Yeah Yeahs

10. Wolf Like Me – TV On the Radio

11. Small Stakes – Spoon

12. Little Numbers – BOY

13. Mayonnaise – The Woolen Men

14. Old White Lincoln – The Gaslight Anthem

15. Hang Loose – Alabama Shakes

16. Lady Touch – Sugar Glyder

17. Santa Fe – Beirut

18. If You Wanna – The Vaccines

19. A Little – Carlos Arzate and the Kind Souls

20. Doctor – Finish Ticket

Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist