Fri, January 5, 2007, 6:05 PM
Thu, January 18, 2007, 5:58 PM
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.
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Fri, January 19, 2007, 2:23 PM
The highly-anticipated third album from The Shins, Wincing the Night Away, is set for release via Sub Pop Records on January 23rd, 2007. The album was recorded in the summer of ’06 in singer/guitarist James Mercer’s basement home studio, with Phil Ek in Seattle, and at Supernatural Sound in Oregon City, OR, and was produced by Mercer, and Joe Chiccarelli (Beck, U2).
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Fri, January 19, 2007, 7:56 PM
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!
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Fri, January 19, 2007, 8:11 PM
The Shins are going to be incredibly busy this month. And, because we think that the various things they’re doing are pretty amazing, and also because we are having a hard time keeping track of it all ourselves (…), the following summation of January ’07, aka the month The Shins are totally all up in your grill:
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Fri, February 2, 2007, 12:22 PM
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
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Fri, February 2, 2007, 1:57 PM
I got to go to the taping when the Shins performed on Letterman just recently and it was a fun time. I stared at Ricky Gervais, said a kind hello to Forest Whittaker, and shook Paul Schaffer’s hand.
Here is a sneaky picture I took during the rehearsal for the show.
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Fri, February 16, 2007, 3:51 PM
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.
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Thu, February 22, 2007, 3:50 PM
The lovely folks at Imeem.com have set up a little contest so that artfully inclined shins fans can get a whole heep of awesome free stuff, including a flight to boston to see the shins, a free hotel stay, and 150 of your posters printed and handed out at the show. Click here fore details…
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Tue, March 6, 2007, 4:30 PM
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…
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Tue, March 13, 2007, 11:34 AM
Our friends The Shins will be performing on TV’s popular Late Night with Conan O’Brien program on the night of Wednesday, March 14th. If all goes according to plan and we’re able to talk them out of doing their new live piece, “Boston: A Medley in Memoriam,” they will be playing the song “Turn on Me” from their recent, pretty-darned-successful -if-we-do-say-so-ourselves album, Wincing the Night Away. And, as if that’s not enticement enough to tune in, Andy Richter is going…
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Tue, March 27, 2007, 4:27 PM
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.
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Mon, April 2, 2007, 4:32 PM
UPDATE! AS OF MAY 1, 2007 WE ARE COMPLETELY OUT OF THESE SHINS 7"S. THIS OFFER IS NO LONGER VALID. We have a very limited number of a Shins 7" that was available only at indie retailers with the purchase of Wincing the Night Away. It comes in a white paper sleeve and features “Spilt Needles” (alt version) b/w “Nothing at All” (which might just be my favorite new Shins song). All you have to do is buy anything by…
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Tue, April 10, 2007, 5:47 PM
Tue, April 17, 2007, 10:55 AM
Tue, April 24, 2007, 1:17 PM
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
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Mon, May 7, 2007, 11:56 AM
Here are two clips of the Shins playing live at mtvU’s Campus Invasion in Austin, TX a few weeks back. And, yes, this is a photo of Shin Dave Hernandez with Lemmy from Motorhead from the night before the big show. Best Saturday EVER.
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Wed, September 19, 2007, 1:57 PM
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…
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Fri, October 5, 2007, 11:41 AM
Tue, October 23, 2007, 4:16 PM
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…
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Tue, November 27, 2007, 4:01 PM
We have a trillion videos up for Subterranean’s Best of 2007 on MTV2 and you would be a bad citizen if you did not go HERE and cast a vote or two for The Shins, Band of Horses, CSS, DNTEL, Handsome Furs, The Thermals, and The Go! Team. Get to it! Please and thank you.
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Tue, December 4, 2007, 12:05 PM
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…
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Mon, March 31, 2008, 11:33 AM
Tue, April 1, 2008, 12:54 PM
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!
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Wed, March 11, 2009, 4:26 PM
Yesterday we had a visit from our other new baby friend, Paloma Hernandez, daughter of Sophia and Dave Hernandez, of the Shins. She’s a real beaut and it was so fun having her in the office! Oh god, my eggs are drying up—someone get me a puppy STAT!
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Thu, June 11, 2009, 11:59 AM
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.)
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