Tagged: Okkervil River

Will Sheff Uses His Music Journo Beard To Interview Roky Erickson

We like to make jokes around here. Hopefully you have noticed. So when we approach something in complete earnest (“headline” aside), there’s got to be something to it, right? In this case, it’s seeing the … read more »

POSTED March 10, 2010 11:56AM IN THE TRIPWIRE TAGS: ,

New Pornographers' New Porn to Include Beirut, St. Vincent and Okkervil River's Will Sheff

Aaaaaaaah. August 2007 was the last time The New Pornographers all got together and released an album. Well now that the year of the tiger is upon us, the gang’s reunited to release their Challengers … read more »

POSTED January 21, 2010 11:40AM IN THE TRIPWIRE TAGS: , , ,

Roky Erickson Finds Pretty Decent Backing Band Hanging Around Austin

In our hometown, if we walked around long enough looking for people to back our vocals, we might find the local hippie guitar player protesting outside of Wal-Mart or maybe some drummer that used to … read more »

POSTED January 12, 2010 1:46PM IN THE TRIPWIRE TAGS: ,

Norah Jones's New Album To Feature Ryan Adams and Will Sheff, Possibly Rule

Possibly underlined. read more »

POSTED August 21, 2009 11:08AM IN THE TRIPWIRE TAGS: , , ,

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco

STEVE MARTIN, YOU GUYS. STEVE MARTIN. read more »

POSTED July 8, 2009 1:24PM IN THE TRIPWIRE TAGS: , , , , , , , , ,

IM Solipsist – Are You Reading This?

In his opening column, Michael Cranston — the IM Solipsist — voices meta-concerns of how to be interesting in a market already grossly oversaturated in blogs and opinions to Tripwire Editor Derek Evers. read more »

POSTED May 19, 2009 3:10PM IN THE TRIPWIRE Comments (1) TAGS: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The Stand Ins

Will Sheff was a regular on the Tripwire in 08, and for good reason. For every Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes fan out there, Will and his band Okkervil River have been going strong for a decade now and stand as a testament, not a Stand In, for this renewed folk rock trend. –Derek Evers read more »

POSTED December 23, 2008 5:25PM IN THE TRIPWIRE TAGS: , ,

Will Sheff, Charles Bissell, Bird Of Youth @ Music Hall Of Williamsburg | Brooklyn

It was a pretty nasty night outside, but whoever fought the rain to get to the Music Hall of Williamsburg would agree that last nights show was worth the trek. Will Sheff and his friends put on a show filled with good vibes and quality music. It was a night of both newly discovered talent and classic sing a longs. read more »

POSTED December 12, 2008 7:57PM IN THE TRIPWIRE Comments (1) TAGS: , , , ,

Video: Okkervil River, “Lost Coastlines”

Okkervil River‘s new video features all of the dudes in the band as TV-headed performers. We were like Yeah alright TV on the River, do what you need to do to capitalize on upcoming FADER … read more »

POSTED September 26, 2008 4:00PM IN MUSIC VIDEO TAGS: ,

Freeload: Okkervil River, Golden Opportunities Mixtape

Indie rock mixtape! Indie rock mixtape! Seriously though, this is awesome—it’s like we have been growing out our beards and this mixtape has been growing out its musical beard right along with us. The dudes … read more »

POSTED December 12, 2007 1:04PM IN MP3 / STREAMS TAGS: ,