{"id":18259,"date":"2013-08-26T10:16:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T18:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=18259"},"modified":"2013-08-26T10:16:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T18:16:50","slug":"stream-new-okkervil-river-album-the-silver-gymnasium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-08\/stream-new-okkervil-river-album-the-silver-gymnasium\/","title":{"rendered":"Stream New Okkervil River Album &#8220;The Silver Gymnasium&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Okkervil-River-The-Silver-Gymnasium.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18260\" alt=\"Okkervil-River-The-Silver-Gymnasium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Okkervil-River-The-Silver-Gymnasium.jpeg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Okkervil-River-The-Silver-Gymnasium.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Okkervil-River-The-Silver-Gymnasium-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Okkervil-River-The-Silver-Gymnasium-400x400.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Okkervil River<\/strong> has produced some of the best music in the indie-rock canon.\u00a0 They are now adding to that largesse via their new album <em><strong>The Silver Gymnasium<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 The album is a nostalgia-bomb set in leader <strong>Will Sheff\u2019s<\/strong> home town of Meriden, NH around 1986, and revolves around Sheff\u2019s own childhood there.\u00a0 Check out the album&#8217;s evolutionary sounds that include more synthesizers.\u00a0 This may be <strong>Okkervil River&#8217;s<\/strong> best album yet.\u00a0 You can stream it now over at <strong>NPR<\/strong>.\u00a0 Go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/08\/25\/214471289\/first-listen-okkervil-river-the-silver-gymnasium\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a> to listen in.\u00a0 The songlist and the band&#8217;s tour dates in support are below.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Silver Gymnasium<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. It Was My Season<br \/>\n2. On a Balcony<br \/>\n3. Down Down the Deep River<br \/>\n4. Pink-Slips<br \/>\n5. Lido Pier Suicide Car<br \/>\n6. Where the Spirit Left Us<br \/>\n7. White<br \/>\n8. Stay Young<br \/>\n9. Walking Without Frankie<br \/>\n10. All the Time Every Day<br \/>\n11. Black Nemo<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tour Dates:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>09\/07 \u2013 Boston, MA @\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/festival-outlook.consequenceofsound.net\/fests\/view\/1308\/boston-calling\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Calling<\/a><br \/>\n09\/19 \u2013 Mobile, AL @ Alabama Music Box<br \/>\n09\/20 \u2013 Tallahassee, FL @ Club Downunder<br \/>\n09\/21 \u2013 Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse<br \/>\n09\/23-24 \u2013 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club<br \/>\n09\/26 \u2013 New York, NY @ Terminal 5 *<br \/>\n09\/27 \u2013 Ithaca, NY @ The Haunt<br \/>\n09\/28 \u2013 Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre<br \/>\n09\/29 \u2013 Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom<br \/>\n10\/01 \u2013 Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge<br \/>\n10\/02 \u2013 Little Rock, AR @ Revolution<br \/>\n10\/04-06 \u2013 Austin City Limits, TX @\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/festival-outlook.consequenceofsound.net\/fests\/view\/1215\/austin-city-limits-music-festival\" target=\"_blank\">Austin City Limits<\/a><br \/>\n10\/11-13 \u2013 Austin City Limits, TX @\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/festival-outlook.consequenceofsound.net\/fests\/view\/1215\/austin-city-limits-music-festival\" target=\"_blank\">Austin City Limits<\/a><br \/>\n10\/18 \u2013 El Paso, TX @ Tricky Falls<br \/>\n10\/19 \u2013 Phoenix, AZ @ The Crescent Ballroom<br \/>\n10\/20 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern<br \/>\n10\/24 \u2013 Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom<br \/>\n10\/25 \u2013 Seattle, WA @ The Showbox<br \/>\n10\/26 \u2013 Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre<br \/>\n11\/01 \u2013 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue<br \/>\n11\/02 \u2013 Chicago, IL @ Metro<\/p>\n<p>* = w\/ Pickwick and Black Joe Lewis &amp; the Honeybears<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okkervil River has produced some of the best music in the indie-rock canon.\u00a0 They are now adding to that largesse via their new album The Silver Gymnasium.\u00a0 The album is a nostalgia-bomb set in leader Will Sheff\u2019s home town of Meriden, NH around 1986, and revolves around Sheff\u2019s own childhood there.\u00a0 Check out the album&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}