After over eight years of relentless touring and quiet musical evolution, Austin-based indie-rockers Okkervil River broke out in 2004 with Black Sheep Boy, a captivating album fueled in no small part by front-man Will Sheff’s lacerating vocals and careening compositions that thrillingly threatened to fall apart at every turn. But on the band’s latest release, The Stage Names, Sheff finds a different source of musical propulsion with a more subdued approach; the lacerations are often......

MUSIC: Didn't get enough partying done yesterday? Come out and see Shearwater (which includes Will Sheff of Okkervil River) play a free show. Hard tickets will be distributed two per person, outside the venue on a first-come, first-served basis starting at 5:00pm on the day of the show. Listen: White Waves.mp3 5pm doors, 7pm show // Note: show is moved indoors to The Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University // Free Over......

We haven't been listening to Sirius radio much, mostly (only) because we don't subscribe to it. Earlier this morning, however, one of the stations blogger/deejays, Jason Productshop NYC, posted a set of mp3's from the first of the acoustic in-studios on his Sirius show. Listening to Will Sheff sing "The President's Dead" at 1:30am, we felt for a second like we were in "Pump Up the Volume". Some sort of pirate radio station airing a......