We’re back from holiday and ready to kick some online shopping ass in 2007.

All orders placed betwixt Dec 22 and Jan 2 have just been shipped out this week, excluding the new Shins album, of course.

The first cluster of U.S. dates are now confirmed, and we’re announcing it RIGHT THIS SECOND!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!! Get your tickets fast-like, ’cause these suckers will likely sell out. Here are all the confirmed dates!

Check out the madness that is the Shins instore at the LA Amoeba Records on January 26th. The Fire Marshall was called, someone fainted, and I saw a few tears being shed.

Look at these photos from the Amoeba site

These are our new t-shirts to go with Wincing the Night Away AND they were designed by Rob Mercer (James’brother!). Available in black or army green, and I suggest you get both so as to not break up the set.

MTV’s Subterranean program (aka pretty much the one hour a week they might play our videos, aka 120 Minutes if it was only 60 minutes long) has a new blog on the internets and it is currently featuring quite a bit of Sub Pop-related information and video. For instance, here are The Shins riding some Segways on a track in Portland. You just can’t beat that.

This week The Shins are the House Band on MTVu and Hutch from "The…

The Shins, The Rapture, and a whole bunch of other bands are going to be playing the Austin, TX stop of the mtvU Campus Invasion Music Festival ’07! And (!), the whole shebang, shindig, clambake, or whatever you want to call it (though, we’re betting “lollapalooza” is out of the question) is designed to generate awareness of the ongoing genocide in Darfur and funding to help end the bloodshed in the region. The folks behind this festival have partnered up with the Save Darfur Coalition – check their site out for more info.

This Friday, April 13th, The Shins will be appearing on NBC’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno! They’ll be performing the song “Australia” from their album Wincing the Night Away. You should watch!

And, though apparently NBC couldn’t get Jason Voorhees as a guest, they did get comedian Orny Adams, who was in that Jerry Seinfeld movie Comedian.

Those ever-industrious Shins have a new live EP up and available in the iTunes store today! Recorded earlier this year at the tremendously famous Record Plant in Hollywood, CA (where Vanilla Fudge recorded, duh), the EP is available here. To the best of our collective knowledge (which is, admittedly, maybe not saying much…), these songs mark the recorded Shins debut of Eric Fruit Bats Johnson.

Here’s the track list:
1. Phantom Limb
2. Australia
3. So Says I
4. Girl Sailor
5. Turn on Me

Remember when we invented the wooden record for sales of 100K a while back? Well, MTVu liked the idea so much they have a whole awards show about it now and they would like to bestow an MTV brand Woodie on two of our bands—The Shins and CSS! The Shins are up for 3 awards,and the viral one requires voting NOW! DO IT!

VOTE HERE for the Shins Viral Woodie
VOTE HERE for the Shins Woodie of the Year
“VOTE HERE for the…

R Buckminster Fuller once said, “I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented,” and this would be wholly unremarkable but for the fact that Harry D. Hudson, Sub Pop’s Master of Technolo-something, said nearly this same thing to me about a new product that he is now prepared to offer for sale exclusively on this very website. What is this mysterious invention that will revolutionize the world as we know it? What ungodly creation…

I kinda hate year the end round-ups and trite “best of” lists that will make up the rest of the journalistic year, but I think it’s a practice steeped in deep tradition and I guess it’s somewhat helpful, so here’s a little bit about what went down at Sub Pop in the past months. 2007 brought us follow up records from old faves The Shins, Low, Jennifer Gentle, Iron and Wine, Band of Horses, Kinski, and Mudhoney as well as…

The fine folks over at vh1.com and vh1classic.com went above and beyond and have provided us with our best birthday present yet—a Sub Pop Turns 20 celebration with over 50 Sub Pop videos from the dawn of time til now. Check it out—there’s Tad, SDRE, Mudhoney, Band of Horses, The Shins, CSS, and more!

Jesse Sandoval, ex-drummer of the Shins recently opened a New Mexican themed taco cart in downtown Portland called Nuevo Mexico and Vendr.tv did an interview with him that you can watch here. Jesse’s food looks delicious, and there’s a surprise visit from Marty Crandall in the video. Read more about Nuevo Mexico here and on the official website. (The official one doesn’t have anything on it yet, presumably because Jesse’s too busy making sopapillas.)