Okkervil River News

When Shearwater was formed a decade ago by Jonathan Meiburg and Will Sheff it was done so as a retreat from the more hard-edged sound of their day job Okkervil River , and although Shearwater's debut album was actually released prior to the first Okkervil River full-length it has always been the former that, at least until the amicable split in ... (more)

"America is a crazy, scary and fascinating landscape," says Savannah-based songwriter Dare Dukes .

Gut Check is going to go out on a precarious limb here and assume that if you were to make a Venn diagram of a) Girl Scouts of America executives, b) aficionados of early 1990's porn and c) fans of the band Okkervil River, it would feature very little overlap.

Contributed Photo The Bright Light Social Hour headlines a show Dec. 30 at House of Rock.