Yesterday’s appearance included:

Lost Coastlines
A King & A Queen
A Hand To Take Hold Of The Scene
It Ends With A Fall

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MP3: Okkervil River – Live On WOXY

All North American gigs below:

4-9 Toronto, ON – Phoenix Theatre
4-10 Pontiac, MI – The Crofoot Ballroom
4-11 Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall
4-12 Munhall, PA – Carnegie Music Hall
4-13 Ithaca, NY – The State Theater
4-14 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
4-16 Richmond, VA – Toad’s Place
4-17 Athens, GA – Georgia Theatre
4-18 Nashville, TN – The Cannery
4-19 St. Louis, MO – The Pageant
4-20 Chicago, IL – Riviera
4-21 Madison, WI – Orpheum
4-22 Cleveland, OH – Beachland

MP3: Okkervil River – The President’s Dead

Enjoy their stellar performance below. Download an Okkervil River MP3 at bottom.

MP3: Okkervil River – It Ends With A Fall

Okkervil River – No Key, No Plan

A track from their Black Sheep Boy Appendix EP.

AKA The companion to the 2005′s Black Sheep Boy.

Visit Okkervil River at the band’s MySpace page.

MP3: Okkervil River – No Key, No Plan

Check out the following clip of Okkervil River performing ‘Savannah Smiles’ from last month’s appearance at Soundfix Records in Brooklyn, NY. OR MP3 at bottom of post.

MP3: Okkervil River – A Favor

I learn to love Okkervil River more and more with each passing day. Below you can view their performance of ‘Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe’ from Tuesday night’s Conan.

MP3: Okkervil River – For Real

See below for Okkervil River’s ‘Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe’. Simply amazing. Download an Okkervil River at bottom of post. Learn more about OR via their official site.

MP3: Okkervil River – Black

UK-ers: The Music Slut highly recommends checking out Austin’s finest, Okkervil River, at one of the following dates this fall. Their forthcoming LP, The Stage Names, is out on August 7th (more info here).

November
6 Colchester Arts Centre
7 Nottingham The Social
8 Newcastle University
9 Glasgow Nice N Sleazy
10 Manchester Roadhouse

December
4 Brighton Pressure Point
5 Liverpool Academy
6 Dublin Whelans
7 Leeds Brudenell Social Club
8 Cardiff Barfly
9 London Luminaire

MP3: Okkervil River – It Ends With A Fall

Full tour dates below, courtesy of Bitchfork Media. Check out all the info for their upcoming LP, The Stage Names, here.

09-03 San Diego, CA – Casbah
09-04 LA, CA – Troubadour
09-05 San Fran, CA – Independent
09-08 Portland, OR – Berbati’s Pan
09-09 Vancouver, BC – Richard’s
09-10 Seattle, WA – Neumos
09-13 Denver, CO – Marquee Theater
09-14 Omaha, NE – Waiting Room
09-15 Iowa City, IA – Picador
09-18 Chicago, IL – Logan Square
09-19 Urbana, IL – The Canopy Club
09-21 Toronto, Ont. – Lee’s Palace
09-22 Hamilton, Ont. – Pepper Jack’s
09-23 Montreal – La Sala Rossa
09-24 Burlington – Higher Ground
09-25 Boston, MA – Middle East
09-26 Northampton, MA – Iron Horse
09-28 New York, NY – Webster Hall
09-29 Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
09-30 Washington, DC – Rock & Roll Hotel
10-02 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
10-03 Athens, GA – 40 Watt
10-06 Houston, TX – Walter’s on Washington

MP3s: ‘Black’ + ‘A Favor’

We’ve just received the exciting news that Austin’s Okkervil River are set to release their next album, The Stage Names, on August 7th. The full-length was mixed by Jim Eno of Spoon. Tracklisting below, cover art to the right.

1. Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe
2. Unless It’s Kicks
3. Hand to Take Hold of the Scene
4. Savannah Smiles
5. Plus Ones
6. A Girl in Port
7. You Can’t Hold the Hand of a Rock and Roll Man
8. Title Track
9. John Allyn Smith Sails

MP3s: Okkervil River – A Favor + Okkervil River- Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe