The Shins News

With summer around the corner, it's time to find new music for those long road trips.

A group of Canadians making dreamy, folk-inspired electronica that sounds a bit like Kate Bush meeting Grimes, Austra specialise in creating haunting mini symphonies where dark, urgent melodies arpeggiating through multiple synthesizers, wrap themselves around lead singer Katie Stelmanis' evocative, ethereal voice.

Sub Pop Records and Hotel Max jointly unveiled the 'Sub Pop Floor' at the beginning of June, allowing its occupants a unique opportunity to sift through a short stack of vinyl albums and play them on an old-school record player.

Just when you thought you'd heard every Beatles song, every cover version, every variation of the Fab Four's catalog, along comes Sgt.

Featuring members from The Weeds, Birdie Busch's band and Buried Beds, Divers are about as local as a group of musicians can get.

The story behind the Postal Service's Give Up is one of those music industry fairy tales where record labels are saved , shoestring budgets turn into platinum sales and romantic-comedy type of timing puts the right people in the right places at the right time to create an unforgettable, trendsetting album.

Co-founder of Sub Pop Records, Jonathan Poneman , has been diagnosed with Parkinson's, a degenerative nervous system disease.

Tonight in the U-District, Seattle lo-fi psych-garage rockers Winnebago will churn out drifting, bedroom-born guitar jams.

After a fairly miserable start to the Memorial Day weekend , the sun finally came out on Sunday , just in time for the first show of the season at outdoor venue Williamsburg Park featuring The Shins and openers Man Man .

The first-ever Boston Calling Music Festival went down over the weekend at Boston's City Hall Plaza.

The inaugural Boston Calling Music Festival took place this weekend at City Hall Plaza, and nearly 20,000 music fans descended on downtown Boston to sing along - sometimes in pouring rain and chilly temperatures - with 18 artists including the Shins, Fun., Bad Rabbits, and the National.

Lance Bangs spent his youth making music videos for bands such as Sonic Youth, R.E.M. , Belle & Sebastian and The Shins , and, among other camera jobs, lensing episodes of Jackass .

Staying in NYC this weekend? There's actually no shortage of things to do here, even though the weather forecast is less than ideal.

Boston Calling Okay, it's not in Somerville, but it's cool. This two-day festival will feature 18 bands, including Fun, The National, Of Monsters of Men and The Shins.

If you need even more shows to choose form, be sure to check out our comprehensive and constantly updated New York Concert Calendar.

According to a May 22 report from The Star , The Shins will be touring this summer, and one of the band's first stops will be in New York.