Few scenes have immediately shifted the culture—or been as ruthlessly parodied—as Natalie Portman handing Zach Braff a pair of headphones in Garden State and telling him The Shins would change his ...

What better time to celebrate a classic album than when it becomes old enough to legally drink? OK, stay with me now, because The Shins’ 2001 album Oh, Inverted World is turning 21, and for this ...

Neal Langford, former bassist of The Shins has died. He was 50. Langford was found in the water near a private dock in Bath, North Carolina on Friday (July 21), according to a report by a local NBC ...

Pick up the just-released 20th anniversary remastered edition of Oh, Inverted World on black vinyl. By the time The Shins came into existence, band leader James Mercer had already cut his teeth in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Click here to read the full article on SPIN. After two and a half years, The Shins have released a new track, “The Great Divide,” ...

Arguably no other indie pop release this year is as highly anticipated as the Shins’ sophomore effort, Chutes Too Narrow. In 2001 the quartet seemingly came out of nowhere — well, Albuquerque, New ...

2022 marks 21 years of the iconic indie rock album Oh, Inverted World by The Shins, and the band found this a great reason to celebrate by announcing an anniversary tour. To further hype up the ...

Some evolution comes naturally. Other adaptations are forced. For the Portland, Oregon–based indie-pop quartet the Shins, it was a cross-breed of the two that helped grow Wincing the Night Away, the ...

After releasing three successful albums via Sub Pop Records, The Shins have decided to take an independent route when the time comes to release their fourth studio record. With no hard feelings to ...

The clever video for “New Slang”–the first single off the Shins’ full-length debut, Oh, Inverted World–has the band’s four members posing in careful re-creations of various classic indie album covers: ...