{"id":8943,"date":"2012-01-09T16:33:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T00:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=8943"},"modified":"2012-01-09T16:33:10","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T00:33:10","slug":"the-shins-release-new-song-in-advance-of-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-01\/the-shins-release-new-song-in-advance-of-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shins Release New Song In Advance of New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8946\" title=\"Print\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SHINS-cover-FINALsmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SHINS-cover-FINALsmall.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SHINS-cover-FINALsmall-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of our favorites, <strong>The Shins<\/strong> have premiered a new song, <em><strong>Simple Song<\/strong><\/em>, from theirnew album <strong>Port of Morrow<\/strong> to be released in March.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitchfork.com\/news\/45023-new-song-from-the-shins-coming-today\/\"><strong>Pitchfork<\/strong><\/a> had this info to pass along: &#8220;<strong>[James] Mercer<\/strong> wrote and performed most of the music on the album, but a few  guests helped, including <strong>Janet Weiss of Wild Flag, Joe Plummer of Modest  Mouse, Eric D. Johnson of the Fruit Bats<\/strong>, and former Shins members <strong>Dave  Hernandez and Marty Crandall<\/strong>, who are no longer in the touring band. (The current touring band features  Plummer,\u00a0singer\/songwriter <strong>Richard Swift, Yuuki Matthews of Crystal  Skulls, and singer\/songwriter Jessica Dobson<\/strong>.)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check out the great new song below or the cooler player to be found <a href=\"http:\/\/simplesong.theshins.com\/\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F32881757%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-k0Rs7&#038;auto_play=false&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;color=a65b58\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Below is <strong>Port of Morrow&#8217;s songlist<\/strong> and currently scheduled <strong>tour dates<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><strong><em>Port Of Morrow<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>01. The Rifle\u2019s Spiral<br \/>\n02. Simple Song<br \/>\n03. It\u2019s Only Life<br \/>\n04. No Way Down<br \/>\n05. September<br \/>\n06. Bait and Switch<br \/>\n07. Fall of \u201982<br \/>\n08. For A Fool<br \/>\n09. 40 Mark Strasse<br \/>\n10. Port of Morrow<\/p>\n<p>Opening Tour:<\/p>\n<p>04-13 Las Vegas, NV &#8211; Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas &#8211; The Pool<br \/>\n04-22 Santa Cruz, CA &#8211; Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium<br \/>\n04-23 Davis, CA &#8211; Robert Mondavi Center<br \/>\n04-25 Reno, NV &#8211; Grand Sierra Resort &amp; Casino<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our favorites, The Shins have premiered a new song, Simple Song, from theirnew album Port of Morrow to be released in March.\u00a0 Pitchfork had this info to pass along: &#8220;[James] Mercer wrote and performed most of the music on the album, but a few guests helped, including Janet Weiss of Wild Flag, Joe [&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-8943","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\/8943","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=8943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}