"Black Sheep Boy" is Okkervil River's most ambitious and cinematic record yet, a love story and adult fable that evokes the mature songcraft of LEONARD COHEN's "New Skin For The Old Ceremony", the ...

Okkervil River formed in 1998, a band made up of singer and songwriter Will Sheff, drummer Seth Warren, and bassist Zachary Thomas. They gigged around Austin, TX for awhile and self-released a debut ...

"Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See", OKKERVIL RIVER's second full-length record and first for Jagjaguwar is the follow-up to their 1999 self-released debut "Stars Too Small To Use". Uniting ...

"Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See", OKKERVIL RIVER's second full-length record and first for Jagjaguwar is the follow-up to their 1999 self-released debut "Stars Too Small To Use". Uniting ...

If last year's "Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See" was the middle of the darkest night of the year, "Down The River Of Golden Dreams" is the earliest light of a morning that could either bring ...

"The goal was to push my brain to places it didn't want to go. The idea was to not have any idea - to keep myself confused about what I was doing," frontman Will Sheff says about Okkervil River's ...

"Mermaid" is the darkest song you'll hear all year: a self-contained fable shot through with evocative and disturbing imagery but rising to a sweeping, romantic, oddly moving climax. This waltz-time ...

As the second single from "The Stand Ins", "Pop Lie" takes the meta-referential mission of OKKERVIL RIVER to a new distinctly pop level. There are two additional tracks on the single, on which Sheff ...

"Rider" is the second single from the forthcoming LP I Am Very Far (JAG185) from Okkervil River. The release of this single coincides with the band's summer tour, and will be serviced aggressively to ...

Okkervil River's Black Sheep Boy was one of the most acclaimed releases of 2005. Kelefa Sanneh wrote in The New York Times that "Will Sheff, leader of the Austin indie-rock band Okkervil River, ...

Okkervil River's Black Sheep Boy was one of the most acclaimed releases of 2005. Kelefa Sanneh wrote in The New York Times that "Will Sheff, leader of the Austin indie-rock band Okkervil River, ...

Okkervil River's new full-length album "The Stand Ins" is the sequel to 2007's critically acclaimed "The Stage Names", which Pitchfork praised as "...one of the year's best," with The New York Times ...

Okkervil River's new full-length album "The Stand Ins" is the sequel to 2007's critically acclaimed "The Stage Names", which Pitchfork praised as "...one of the year's best," with The New York Times ...

"Wake and Be Fine" is the first single from the forthcoming lp I Am Very Far from Okkervil River. To announce the new record, Okkervil River performed "Wake and Be Fine" with Carl Newman (The New ...

"Your Past Life as a Blast" is the third single from I Am Very Far (JAG185) from Okkervil River. The release of this single coincides with the band's late summer tour and festival season, and will be ...