Silver Jews: Last News

Animal Collective have recorded a new session for SiriusXM, during which they covered Silver Jews‘ 1994 ‘Starlite Walker’ cut ‘Trains Across The Sea’.For their rendition, the experimental band spliced it up with ‘Genie’s Open’, a track which has never been officially released but has been performed live by the band on tour from as early as 2018.In clips that have not been released online, the band also played recent songs ‘Prester John’ and ‘Passer-by’, as well as ‘Merriweather Post Pavilion’ track ‘Bluish’. For now, watch the band play their ‘Genie’s Open’/’Trains Across The Sea’ mash-up below:Animal Collective released their latest studio album, ‘Time Skiffs’, in February.

“At night when I have dreams, I lose almost always,” David Berman told The FADER in 2005, in his first ever extended interview. “I’m being betrayed, or left behind, or somehow losing the game.

Silver Jews reunited with Will Oldham on vocal duty for a semi-impromptu gig in Nashville this past weekend.Taking place on the porch of the Julia Martin Gallery in Nashville, TN on Saturday night (August 10), the show was done to honour the fifth anniversary of the death of the band’s frontman David Berman.Led by Berman’s widow Cassie Berman, the night saw the likes of the remaining band members – comprised of William Tyler, Peyton Pinkerton, Brian Kotzu, and Tony Crow – as well as Tyler’s former Lambchop bandmate Matt Swanson and Will Oldham – aka Bonnie “Prince” Billy – perform a full Silver Jews set.Cassie and Oldham shared lead vocal duties on ‘Punks in the Beerlight’ and ‘The Wild Kindness’.

Stephen Malkmus debuted two new songs at a gig in Portland at the weekend alongside one of Pavement‘s classic tracks.The singer-songwriter, best known as the frontman of indie rock stalwarts Pavement, played his first gig since 2019 on Sunday (January 16) at The Alberta Abbey.Accompanied by his live band – made up of The Decemberists’ Chris Funk, Brad Truax and Jake Morris – Malkmus’s set included a performance of Pavement’s ‘Father To A Sister Of Thought’ and a cover of Wilco‘s ‘Box Full Of Letters’.He also debuted two new songs titled ‘MTV’ and ‘Making Friends’, and he played ‘Blue Arrangements’ by Silver Jews, the New York band he formed in 1989 with Bob Nastanovich and the late David Berman.The two new songs are yet to be released, but fan footage from the show has landed online – you can check out clips from the show below.A post shared by Sprout (@sproutniblet)A post shared by Sprout (@sproutniblet)A post shared by Sprout (@sproutniblet)A post shared by Sprout (@sproutniblet)A post shared by Sprout (@sproutniblet)A post shared by Sprout (@sproutniblet)A post shared by Sprout (@sproutniblet)A post shared by Sprout (@sproutniblet)A post shared by Sprout (@sproutniblet)A post shared by Sprout (@sproutniblet)A post shared by Sprout (@sproutniblet)A post shared by Sprout (@sproutniblet)A post shared by Sprout (@sproutniblet)A post shared by Sprout (@sproutniblet)A post shared by Sprout (@sproutniblet)A post shared by Sprout (@sproutniblet)You can listen to the Portland show in full here:‘Amberjack’‘Xian Man’‘Signal Western’‘Making Friends’‘MTV’‘Brainwashed’‘Juliefuckingette’‘Shadowbanned’‘The Greatest Own In Legal History’‘Piccolo’‘Not Fade/Seeger’‘Blue Arrangements’ (Silver Jews song)‘Faces Of Ocean Rain’‘Father To A

This past December, as my 28th birthday loomed, I did something slightly immature and dramatic: I posted contextless song lyrics on Twitter. The lines in question—“In 27 years/I've drunk 50,000 beers/And they just wash against me/Like the sea into a pier”—came from the Silver Jews’ “Trains Across the Sea,” off 1994’s Starlite Walker. Like many fans of Silver Jews leader David Berman, I’d found myself continuously returning to his work in the wake of his sudden death last August, not long after he re-emerged as Purple Mountains.