JONATHAN MEIBURG is a bird guy. But you don't need to be told that the leader of Austin's Shearwater has a master's degree in ornithology, because his music is speckled with the lore and lexicon of ...

Jonathan Meiburg’s Shearwater are a decade young. To close out a triptych of dense, ambitious albums the impressionistic, metaphysical themes of which are interconnected, 2006‘s Palo Santo and 2008‘s ...

Filmmaker and Filmmaker contributor Alix Lambert directed the new Shearwater video, which just went online. It’s from their new Animal Joy album, and, appropriately, there is animal imagery. I asked ...

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It’s been six years since Shearwater’s last album, Jet Plane And Oxbow, though in that time the project’s leader Jonathan Melberg teamed up with Cross Record’s Emily Cross and Dan Duszynski for the ...

A truck is on fire in the desert, black smoke billowing in the sky. Two years ago, on tour through the desert west of Phoenix, Shearwater's van came upon a tractor-trailer on fire in the middle of the ...

Each week, NPR Music writer and editor Stephen Thompson brings us a new song. This week it's an new take on an old hit. On Shearwater's new album "Fellow Travelers," the Austin-born and Brooklyn-based ...

Austin indie-rock adventurers Shearwater have spent over a decade creating musical alternate universes, and now return with their eighth album, 'Animal Joy.' Frontman Jonathan Meiburg is once again at ...

Every weekday from March 8 to March 19, Song of the Day will showcase a track by an artist playing the South by Southwest music festival. For NPR Music's full coverage of SXSW — complete with ...

Being as uncool as I am, I missed the South by Southwest Festival over the weekend in Austin, Texas. Hundreds and hundreds of bands played. But fortunately, I had a source who did attend: Stephen ...

As evidenced by last year’s Sharon Van Etten-assisted rendition of “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around,” Shearwater’s obviously capable of an exemplary cover. “Fellow Travelers,” which takes on material by ...

It’s often difficult to capture nature through a camera lens—no matter how good the footage is, it’s never a completely accurate representation of real life. Audio becomes muddled, the contrast is ...