“My favorite music always comes with a strong sense of place; even if it’s impossible, you can’t help imagining the room where it was made,” Shearwater‘s Jonathan Meiburg tells us, adding that “A ...

Shearwater are releasing a new album, The New World, on July 31 via the band’s own Polyborus label (in partnership with ...

Shearwater @ All Points West ’09 (more by Chris La Putt) In conjunction with the release of Shearwater’s new album, The Golden Archipelago, singer Jonathan Meiburg and designer Mark Ohe have created a ...

Shearwater have released their first new album in six years, The Great Awakening, today via Polyborus/Secretly Distribution. They have also shared a video for the album track “Empty Orchestra.” View ...

Audio for this feature is no longer available. The night began with just Jonathan Meiburg, howling in his breathtaking falsetto over the Black Cat's P.A. The Austin band Shearwater is known to give ...

Nature has always played a crucial role in Jonathan Meiburg’s songwriting. The frontmant of Shearwater is a studied ornithologist, and his boundless, ambitious material has frequently fixed its sights ...

Jonathan Meiburg and Shara Worden are the king and queen of fragile rock, from their lyrics (and the way they’re delivered) to the eclectic instruments that complement them, including hammered ...

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 ...

The annual Record Store Day holiday hits April 20 this year, and to mark the occasion Sub Pop will release a split 7" from former tourmates Sharon Van Etten and Shearwater. The single features a cover ...