I’ll admit that I thought it’d be a little bit before we heard any non-Broken Bells stuff from James Mercer, so this caught me a bit by surprise. James Mercer played a new — presumably Shins — song with Joe Plummer (Shins, Modest Mouse, Mister Heavenly) in Portland. MP3: James Mercer – new song (live [...]

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Broken Bells’ new EP Meyrin Fields hit stores this week, but you don’t have to wait months to see those songs lives. You can check out a live studio performance of “Heartless Empire” over at Spinner. It sounds a little less powerful than their set at the Mohawk did, but I guess not having a [...]

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