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

Consequence of Sound — New covers album, Fellow Travelers out November. more info

Chorus.fm — *Shearwater* (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Shearwater/156311098172) will release their new reinventions and collaborations album, Fellow Travelers, on November 26th via Sub Pop Records. You can stream their cover of "I Luv the Valley Oh!!" in the ... more info