Totally Fuzzy — Indie Rock Spring Break aka SXSW Music Festival is right around the corner, and we are thrilled to announce our 2012 showcase lineup, to be held on March 16 at Red 7. This year’s lineup will feature performances from the likes of Shearwater, Niki... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Amanda Hatfield Shearwater @ Bowery Ballroom Shearwater completed a tour with Sharon Van Etten over the course of two nights in NYC over the weekend. Pictures from their opening set at Bowery Ballroom on 2/25 are in this... more info

DrownedInSound — Single of the Week! The Magnetic Fields - ‘Andrew In Drag’ (Domino) When there are bands in existence who can write lines like ‘I’d sign away my trust fund, I would even sell the jag / If I could spend my misspent youth, with Andrew in ... more info

DrownedInSound — Like nature itself, Shearwater simply continue, serenely untouched by vagaries of fashion. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

Guardian Music — (Sub Pop)It may be called Animal Joy, but the seventh album from Texan trio Shearwater is a strenuously joyless experience. Every sinew of this muscular music sounds clenched and furiously tense. Frontman Jonathan Meiburg is preoccupied with ideas of... more info

411 Mania — This week's MBML has news on Odd Future and Bowerbirds. Also, I've got new downloads and music videos featuring La Sera, Vaura, Shearwater, and Miracle Fortress. Plus, I'll give you a new artist to keep your eyes on and music recommendations worth ... more info

DrownedInSound — A week today (February 27) DiS favourites Shearwater released their new record, Animal Joy, through Sub Pop. Now you can listen to it in full, via the SoundCloud player below. Is it as good as the last one? Or even the one before that? You decide. ... more info

Stereogum — Shearwater’s Animal Joy is our Album Of The Week, and today the band came through with the video for album standout “Breaking The Yearlings,” a clip that finds Jonathan Meiburg hallucinating inside a natural history museum. The video then takes... more info

Stereogum — Shearwater’s last three albums, the ones that brought the Austin band to prominence, all made up parts of a loose overarching concept-album trilogy, one that had something to do with islands and bird-migration patterns and general isolation. Once a... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Shearwater's Animal Joy is already at the top of my 2012 favorite albums list (along with Sharon Van Etten's Tramp, released last week). Other albums I can wholeheartedly recommend this week include Heartless Bastards' Arrow, Islands' A Sleep &... more info