The Shins
The Shins is an American indie rock band formed in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1996.
The band's current lineup consists of James Mercer( vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, songwriter), Jon Sortland( drums), Mark Watrous( guitar, keyboards), Casey Foubert( guitar), Yuuki Matthews( bass, keyboards), and Patti King( keyboards).
The band is based in Portland, Oregon.
The band was formed by Mercer as a side project to Flake Music, who were active from 1992 to 1999.
The band released two 7" singles and a full- length album" When You Land Here It's Time to Return" on Omnibus Records and were touring with Modest Mouse when they were signed to Sub Pop Records.
The band's first two records," Oh, Inverted World"( 2001) and" Chutes Too Narrow"( 2003) performed well commercially and received critical acclaim.
The single" New Slang" brought the band mainstream attention when it was featured in the 2004 film" Garden State".
Consequently, the band's third album," Wincing the Night Away"( 2007), was a major success for the group, peaking at number two on the" Billboard" 200 and earning a Grammy Award nomination.
Following this, the Shins signed to Columbia Records and Mercer parted ways with the entire original lineup, deeming it" an aesthetic decision".
Following a near five- year hiatus," Port of Morrow", the band's fourth studio album, was released in 2012.
Their fifth album," Heartworms", was released in March 2017.
List of songs recorded by the Shins
American rock band
The Shins have recorded songs for four studio albums, compilation appearances and bonus tracks.
Simple Song (The Shins song)
" Simple Song" is a song by American indie rock band
The Shins from their fourth studio album" Port of Morrow".
Written by the group's frontman James Mercer, the song was released as the first single from the album.
The Fireballs
The Fireballs, sometimes billed as Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs, were an American rock and roll group, particularly popular at the end of the 1950s and in the early 1960s.
The original line- up consisted of George Tomsco( lead guitar), Chuck Tharp( vocals), Stan Lark( bass), Eric Budd( drums), and Dan Trammell( rhythm guitar).
The Fireballs were formed in Raton, New Mexico in 1957, and got their start as an instrumental group featuring the distinctive lead guitar of George Tomsco.
They recorded at Norman Petty's studio in Clovis, New Mexico.
According to group founders Tomsco and Lark, they took their name from Jerry Lee Lewis's" Great Balls of Fire".
They reached the Top 40 with the singles" Torquay"( 1959)," Bulldog"( 1960) and" Quite a Party"( 1961).
" Quite a Party" peaked at# 29 in the UK Singles Chart in August 1961.
Tharp, Budd and Trammell left the group in the early 1960s, but the Fireballs added Doug Roberts on drums, plus Petty Studio singer/ pianist Jimmy Gilmer( born September 15, 1940 in Chicago and raised in Amarillo, Texas) to the group.
Billed as Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs, the group reached number 1 on the Billboard chart with" Sugar Shack", which remained at that position for five weeks in 1963.
The single also reached number 1 on Billboard's R&B chart for one week in November of that year, but its run on that chart was cut short because" Billboard" ceased publishing an R&B chart from November 30, 1963 to January 23, 1965.
Nonetheless," Sugar Shack" earned the group a Gold Record Award for" Top Song Of 1963".
In the UK the song peaked at# 45.
Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs then had another pop hit in 1964 with a similar- sounding" Daisy Petal Pickin'", which reached number 15 on the Hot 100.
Norman Petty had been Buddy Holly's main recording producer and after Holly's death obtained the rights to Holly's early rehearsal and home demo recordings.
From May 1962 until August 1968, Petty had the Fireballs overdub the Holly material, making them the band he never knew he had though the band had met Holly at Petty's studio in 1957.
The overdubs were originally released on four albums of" new" Holly material throughout the 1960s with four of the efforts released as singles charting.
In 1964, they recorded and released an album( solely under Jimmy Gilmer's name) of a dozen Holly covers called" Buddy's Buddy," likely inspired by the posthumous collaborations.
During the run of" Daisy Petal Pickin'" on the charts, the British Invasion began with the first hits by the Beatles.
The group had difficulty competing with the influx of British artists and did not reach the Top 40 again until 1967, with" Bottle of Wine", which was written by Tom Paxton.
The Fireballs took" Bottle of Wine" to number 9 on the Hot 100.
Although Gilmer was still a member of the group, the band was billed simply as" The Fireballs" on that single.
Gilmer left the group in 1967 to pursue artist management and record production in Nashville, Tennessee.
Drummer Doug Roberts died in 1981.
All of the Fireballs' material has been reissued on Ace Records( UK) and Sundazed record labels.
The Fireballs continued performing with original members George Tomsco, Stan Lark and Chuck Tharp until 2006, when Tharp died of cancer.
Gilmer returned as lead vocalist in 2007.
Lark retired from the group in 2016.
Tomsco has continued to release CDs of new material using the Fireballs name and continues to do the occasional show as a" solo Fireball", and also along with Gilmer.
Martin Crandall
Martin Lesley Crandall( born April 20, 1975) is an American musician, multi-instrumentalist, best known as a former member of The Shins.
Crandall is originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico and spent some of his high school years in Las Vegas, Nevada( where he formed a band called Captain Go).
He previously resided along with the rest of the band in Portland, Oregon.
Crandall is featured extensively in Current TV documentary" All Eyes on The Shins".
In 2009, Crandall was dismissed from The Shins along with Jesse Sandoval.
Bottle of Wine
" Bottle of Wine" is a song written by Tom Paxton and performed by The Fireballs.
The song reached# 9 on the" Billboard" Hot 100 in 1967.
It also reached# 3 in South Africa.
The song appeared on their 1967 album," Bottle of Wine".
The Fireballs version only included two out of the four verses written by Paxton with the chorus being repeated.
The song was produced by Norman Petty.
The song was ranked# 63 on" Billboard" magazine's Top" Hot 100" songs of 1968.
The Little Ones (band)
The Little Ones is an indie pop band based in Los Angeles, California.
The music of the band, which features tambourines and handclaps, has garnered comparisons to 1960s pop bands such as The Beach Boys, The Zombies, The Kinks, modern- day pop group The Shins, and the Elephant Six collective.
The Provincial Archive
The Provincial Archive are a Canadian indie band.
Their releases have spanned genres from indie folk to alt rock.
Their music has been compared to R.E.M. and The Shins and; early Weezer and Elliott Smith.
Heartworms (album)
Heartworms is the fifth studio album by American rock band The Shins.
The album was released March 10, 2017, on Columbia Records.
It is the Shins' first studio album in five years.
The album was produced by James Mercer. "
So Now What" was produced by former band member Richard Swift.
Remembering the Fireballs (Part 8)
Remembering the Fireballs( Part 8) is a compilation album by the American post- hardcore group Lync.
It is composed of singles and unreleased tracks.
The album was released on K Records in 1997.

Question: Are both The Fireballs and The Shins from the same country?
Answer: yes