okkervil river

Okkervil River are offering the second in their series of Golden Opportunities cover EPs on their website now, for free.

The first mix came out in 2007.

See our March interview with Okkervil principal Will Sheff here.

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KUT 90.5, together with NPR Music, will present the debut performance of the new album by Austin-based band Okkervil River, webcast live tonight from the legendary Cactus Cafe in Austin.

The show will stream on both video and audio at KUT.org and at NPRmusic.org at 6 p.m. A limited number of tickets are available through on-air…   » Continue Reading

Last Saturday night Chris and I ventured out to one my favorite music venues in town: the Paramount. There we...

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Roky Erickson is hard at work on a new album called True Love Cast Out All Evil, out on April 20th on Anti-.

Helping out are some familiar Austin faces, the guys in Okkervil River. As Okkervil backs Erickson, singer/songwriter Will Sheff produces the record.

The album will feature "found-sound and archival recordings culled from Erickson's home videos and recordings made in the Rusk State Hospital for the Criminally Insane," according to a press release.