Okkervil River
The Stand Ins

This follow-up and/or sequel to 2007’s The Stage Names, sees Will Sheff and co continuing their depiction of the life, loves and general mores of a se...

Will Sheff, lead singer with Okkervil Rivers has, at various times, been a music journalist. With this in mind you feel sure that he'd be able to deal...

With Will Sheff’s literary tendencies already well documented, it’s little surprise that he’s asking us to view The Stand Ins, the latest from his ban...

With Will Sheff’s literary tendencies already well documented, it’s little surprise that he’s asking us to view The Stand Ins, the latest from his ban...

Finally seeing release on these shores a month after our US brethren received it, The Stand Ins is intended a companion piece - a sequel, if you will ...

Austin's Okkervil River are nothing if not ambitious. Their earlier album Black Sheep Boy had tracks that loosely looped themselves around a single so...

What now comprises The Stand Ins was originally intended to be the second disc of a double album with The Stage Names, which was instead released last...

It wasn’t without some trepidation that I agreed to review the new Okkervil River jam. The last time I ventured down this fraught path it was made cle...

With every ten bands that can?t seem to make quality music each and every time out, there is that one rare band that reminds you just how prevailing t...

There is no redemption in rock ‘n’ roll. Show business is just a place where the emotionally deprived search for acceptance, a place where people use ...