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Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States (1997 – present)

The Shins are an American band consisting of singer and guitarist James Mercer, bassist Ron Lewis from Grand Archives , bassist/guitarist Dave Hernandez, Joe Plummer of Modest Mouse , and, as of 2007, keyboardist/singer Eric Johnson of Fruit Bats. They formed in 1997, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States as a side project of Mercer (previously of Blue Roof Dinner) and Sandoval, who were both members of the lo-fi musical group Flake Music (formed as Flake 1992). The band was signed to Sub Pop following a successful tour in 2000 with fellow college-rockers Modest Mouse, and they now reside in Portland, Oregon.

Their 2001 debut album, Oh, Inverted World received near-universal critical acclaim, causing many critics to predict a mass wave of Beach Boys-inspired bands. That wave never truly came, but the Shins enjoyed a rapidly expanding fanbase, and even saw their music featured on a McDonalds advertisement. That may have been artistic suicide for them, had it not been that the song featured (“PlayNew Slang”), included the lines “New slang/when you notice the stripes/the dirt in your fries,” as well as “God speed all the bakers at dawn/may they all cut their thumbs/And bleed into their buns/’till they melt away.”

The band moved from New Mexico to the “indie rock capitol” of in 2002. Their much-anticipated followup, Chutes Too Narrow, was released in October of ‘03 in the U.S. and a half-year later across the pond to gushing reviews that matched if not exceeded their debut effort.
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FRUIT BATS ON TOUR!

10 Nov 2008 | from blog.myspace.com/theshins

Shins multi-instrumentalist Eric D. Johnson is hitting the road with his band Fruit Bats in January and February. Come on out and say hi to The Shins extended family! Check the details here or here:ww. …

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