Brooklyn Vegan — Will Sheff getting ready to drone at Death by Audio in October (via BV Instagram) Okkervill River frontman, former Shearwater member, Roky Erickson collaborator, Rock*A*Teens superfan, and all around cool guy Will Sheff will play a one-off NYC show T... more info

Stereogum — Shearwater have been going in on the covers lately. Last year, Jonathan Meiburg’s Texan indie impressionists earned an Album Of The Week designation for their all-covers collection Fellow Travelers, and they also took on Frank Ocean’s “Novacane... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Albums there are dates for Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Wigout At Jagbags (6th January)Broken Bells – After The Disco (13th January)East India Youth - Total Strife Forever (13th January)I Break Horses - Chiaroscuro (20th January)Mogwai - Rave Ta... more info

KEXP Seattle — Shearwater need not worry: they’re “not turning into a cover band”. So says principle songwriter Jonathan Meiburg, who recently performed a set of covers live in the KEXP studio. Their new album, Fellow Travelers, in fact, consists exclusively ... more info

Consequence of Sound — A woozy and unnerving experience. more info

KEXP Seattle — While many people are compiling their year-end lists and shopping for gift-worthy deluxe reissues for the upcoming holidays, some bands are still releasing excellent new albums that you’ll want to hear before you make any final decisions. A few of ... more info

Consequence of Sound — The reach of Jonathan Meiburg's covers LP exceeds its grasp. more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Shearwater's Fellow Travelers is one of the year's finest releases. Beachwood Sparks' Desert Skies is another album I cannot recommend strongly enough. Reissues include a vinyl edition of Billy Bragg and Wilco's Mermaid Avenue 2 and the There's A... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — R.I.P., author and Nobel laureate Doris Lessing. NPR Music is streaming Shearwater's new album Fellow Travelers. Downpour is a DRM-free digital audiobook online store. Tyrant's Giancarlo DiTrapano talks to Scott McClanahan at The Quietus in the first... more info

KEXP Seattle — Shearwater have a new album coming out 11/26 on Sub Pop Records titled Fellow Travelers, a collection of covers of their former tourmates. This past summer, we captured frontman Jonathan Meiburg backstage at the Sub Pop Silver Jubilee, working throug... more info