Okkervil River News

Like a gifted athlete, a talented musician makes the most carefully cultivated craft seem effortless.

Dinosaur Jr 's Farm is currently charting at #1 over at KJHK, Pitchfork gave it an 8.5 , and it's on Jagjaguwar, home to such current indie rock faves as as Okkervil River and Sunset Rubdown.

"We are from the state of Texas and the city of Austin," Okkervil River frontman Will Sheff announced near the end of an astonishing set that did our burg proud.

Austin City Limits will tape a performance by Austin's own Okkervil River on Thursday, June 18, starting at 8 p.m. We will be giving away 75 pair of Space Available tickets.

Indie rock's favorite Stand Ins , Okkervil River, have found a new spot: right beside Wilco.

American independent outfit: Okkervil River. Okkervil River are set to bring the street sounds of New York to our shores, writes Craig Mathieson.

Baltimore, Maryland based musician and producer Brian Larsen announced on April 30 that his debut solo album will be titled BREAKING.

Austin indie folk outfit Okkervil River. Okkervil River and Roger Miret are about as disparate musically as you can get.

As Bruce Springsteen heads for Worthy Farm, Blur reunite and Doves aim for great heights, this year's festival season offers the perfect recession antidote.

Color us slightly surprised that Vanderbilt has become Nashville's hip-hop hotbed, although we're definitely not complaining.

Merge Records, a music label responsible for records from the likes of Spoon and M. Ward, is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a tribute CD full of amazing bands covering a bunch of awesome songs.

Note: Due to a scheduling conflict, Crooked Fingers will not be opening the Thursday night concert.

Austin musician Suzanna Choffel won the "Best Indie Band" prize last night at the 27th annual Austin Music Awards, which mark the official kickoff to the SXSW Music Festival.

Most acts who can be bothered to do Kernow always seem to be for other people - for the surf crowd , for the indie kids , for the dance crowd .

The reunited Dinosaur Jr. has signed with Indiana's indie label Jagjaguwar. The imprint is also home to such bands as Black Mountain, Bon Iver, and Okkervil River.

NORTHERN COMFORT: Wild Light got over hating their home state when they realized they weren't really a Boston band.

I learned something with this week's music choice. I learned that not everyone has the same music taste as m1e.

Austin's psychedelic torch will be handed down at the 2008-09 Austin Music Awards at the Austin Music Hall on March 18.

This winter, Austinist wanted to take some time to check in with some of our favorite local performers, artists and musicians to see what they enjoyed in 2008.

Chad Michael Murray already tried his director's hand with the One Tree Hill episode "We Three for the series sixth season.