The Shins

New: The Shins – “September,” Tour Dates

The Shins have premiered “September,” the b-side to their excellent new single, “Simple Song”. The b-side comes with a charming lyric video, so you can sing along to the lovely…

REC’D: The Shins – “Simple Song”

After a five-year hiatus and plenty of side projects, seminal Portland indie rockers The Shins are back with a new record Port of Morrow, their first on frontman James Mercer’s…

The Shins Announce New Album: Port of Morrow

The band that changed our lives, The Shins, will return with a new album in March through James Mercer’s Aural Apothecary.

The Shins Debut New Song “For A Fool”, Cover David Bowie

The Shins have been taking a bit of a breather since James Mercer began his increasingly popular side project Broken Bells, along with mastermind producer Danger Mouse. Now after releasing…

The Shins Announce Dates

The Shins ending their hiatus in less than a week with a few Oregon performances before their set at this year’s Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco on August 12.…

Levi’s Pioneer Sessions: The Revival Recordings project delivers once again with a fantastic cover from the apparently-not-disbanded Shins. They chose this cover of Squeeze’s “Goodbye Girl” as their first new…

Broken Bells: Tour Dates with Morning Benders

Broken Bells Broken Bells Album Review

Vinyl giveaway details at the end of the review. Broken Bells Broken Bells Columbia Records out March 9th 85/100 [Rating Scale] Rate Broken Bells [STARRATER] There will be lots of…

GIVEAWAY: Broken Bells @ Music Hall of Wburg + LP/Concert Poster

Broken Bells, the musical love child of Gnarls Barkley’s Danger Mouse (aka Brian Burton) and The Shins’ James Mercer, will be going on a short US tour to promote the…

Broken Bells “The High Road” (Music Video)

The video for the new James Mercer (The Shins) and Danger Mouse (Gnarls Barkley) collaboration, Broken Bells. Broken Bells’ self-titled, full-length debut is out March 9th on Sony. Download the…

Best Songs of the 2000s

Here are Pretty Much Amazing’s Top 75 Songs of the Decade. Below you will find the entire list with three accompanying podcasts. For our reviews of the Top 25 songs,…

Gnarls Barkley + The Shins = Broken Bells

PMA will be off for the Holidays. Regular posting will be back on track next Monday, December 28th. Until then, here are a few quick music fixes: Danger Mouse (Gnarls…

Best Album of 2003 Poll

Best Albums of 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 Moving onto the fourth year of the decade,…

Blog Wars: The Genius Playlist | Round 1, Battle 1

Hello and welcome to the first ever Blog Wars hosted by Pretty Much Amazing! This is the first of hopefully many Blog Wars to come. This particular Blog War pins…