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 ...

Jonathan Meiburg's reputation — as a scholarly character who earned a Master's degree in geography with a focus on ornithology — preceded him to WFUV, so I made sure to show him my penguin calendar ...

Shearwater began as a side project of Texas indie-rockers Okkervil River, a way for keyboard player Jonathan Meiburg to indulge his twin interests in music and ornithology. Via several beautiful, bird ...

It's been a long while since Shearwater transcended their low-key, nocturnal, alt-folk beginnings, and who remembers there was ever another songwriter onboard? With their chamber-orchestration, and ...

Centrifugal musical motion has flung Lucas Oswald away from the center of his musical formation and into the wider world of indie rock. The native Mid-Missourian now resides deep in the heart of Texas ...

Damn. If there's been one article written about the music industry going the same way as Wayne Mardle's darts, then there's been a hundred million of them. It's TOUGH out there, and folks want ...

Each week, NPR's Stephen Thompson brings us a new song. This week it's the Brooklyn-based band Shearwater's cover of "Natural One" by The Folk... Shearwater Brings A New Sound To A '90s Hit Each week, ...

Shearwater isn't what you'd call understated. In this studio session from WFUV, singer Jonathan Meiburg and his bandmates don't let an intimate... Jonathan Meiburg's reputation — as a scholarly ...