The Shins News

Emerging from Albuquerque at the onset of the aughts, the brainy power-pop band the Shins became one of the key acts in the commercial resurgence of indie rock in the past decade.

Time really flies, and it's been another year. Festival season is upon us. Interested locals will be counting down the days to Riverbend, but this weekend is Hangout Festival, in .

Toontrack Music has updated EZmix to version 2.0.4 and released Indie Folk EZX for EZdrummer and EZkeys Country MIDI for EZkeys .

Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we'll provide the jams.

At age 22, Jessica Dobson was feeling pretty down. Though the Orange County local had hit gold and signed with Atlantic Records at age 19, neither of the two solo albums she recorded were ever released.

May 12 was something of a personality test for Boise music fans. Did you go to Knitting Factory to see The Shins or to Revolution Concert House to see Primus? This salty old fart chose fast hands over lower legs and went to see some psychedelic shred-funk. In 3D, no less.

It was a day that many people probably circled, and then likely punctuated with a few exclamation marks, when the schedule for the inaugural BottleRock Napa Valley was first released.

Ra Ra Riot formed in 2006 in New York. At that time, the band members, L-R, Rebecca Zeller, singer Wes Miles, bassist Mathieu Santos and guitarist Milo Bonacci, were entering their final semester at Syracuse University.

The Shins headline this May 13 show at Park City Live, but East Coast-based ensemble Ra Ra Riot opens and is in the midst of redefining itself.

Courtesy Photo / Provided to Lake Tahoe Action The Shins along with fellow indie rockers Ra Ra Riot will make an appearance at MontBleu Resort Casino & Spa May 11.

Playing haunting and stark urban folk music in the 1990s, Seattle-based singer-songwriter Damien Jurado became known as a quiet storm and an inspiration to thousands of kids with guitars and spiral notebooks full of songs.

Festival promoters are pulling out all the stops this summer, with some of the most sought after headliner's as well as star-powered newbies.

Harrisburg's own Rebecca Marie Miller will celebrate the release of her debut solo album, "Trojan Heart," this Saturday at the Abbey Bar at Appalachian Brewing Company.

I was barely five minutes into my first episode of Maron's massively popular podcast "WTF?," and his comedic style, one based largely on his own neuroses, self-doubt and anger, was grating.

"We have a similar kind of creative process for all our records, letting the record shape itself organically," lead singer Pete Quirk said by phone from a tour stop in Tucson, Ariz.

You guys, we did it! Zach Braff gets to make Wish I Was Here , his follow-up to Garden State , without those Hollywood suits telling him to compromise his vision! His vision is going to be so great, probably! Or not good at all.

You often wonder, staring through the frosty shop window of an outsider's perspective, how it must work for the sons and daughters of famous musicians.

"Disney on drugs"? A record "like warm mayonnaise"? That's how Stockholm's Shout Out Louds are underselling their fourth album.

Lots of people got their panties in a twist earlier this week when Zach Braff announced that he'd launched a Kickstarter campaign to earn the $2 million he needs to get his new film, I Wish I Was Here , off the ground.

You know spring is in full swing when concert lineups for Merriweather Post Pavilion start to come out.