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<title>Music Videos by The Shins on Rhapsody Online</title><link>http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.43306&amp;rws=%2Fthe-shins%2Fmusic-videos.rss</link><description>With their jangly and melodic pop the Shins helped bring the pop traditions of 1960s pop bands &amp;#8212; groups like the Beatles, the Zombies, and the Beach Boys &amp;#8212 to a new generation of music fans under the catchall music sobriquet of “indie rock.”
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The Shins formed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the late 1990s under the name Flake Music. The group &amp;#8212; featuring singer-songwriter James Mercer, bassist Neal Langford, keyboardist Martin Crandall, and drummer Jesse Sandoval &amp;#8212; released one album, &lt;I&gt;When You Land Here, It's Time To Return&lt;/I&gt; (1997) before changing its name to the Shins and signing a deal with Sub Pop Records.
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Released in 2001, the Shins' proper debut, &lt;I&gt;Oh, Inverted World&lt;/I&gt;, was a critical success, with haunting pop numbers such as "New Slang" and "Caring is Creepy." The album not only caught the attention of McDonald's &amp;#8212; which placed "New Slang" in a television spot, but it also helped re-establish the profile of Sub Pop, which had been without a marquee artist for much of the late 1990s.
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After touring behind &lt;I&gt;World&lt;/I&gt;, the band parted ways with Langford and brought in Dave Hernandez to work on &lt;I&gt;Chutes Too Narrow&lt;/I&gt; (Number 86, 2003), a less sleepy-eyed and more bustling follow-up. The Shins' biggest breakthrough, however, came the next year, when two of the group's songs were included in the winsome Zach Braff vehicle &lt;I&gt;Garden State&lt;/I&gt;. The film's soundtrack was certified platinum, though its success riled some Shins fans, some of whom felt that the band's appeal was partly due to its well-kept secrecy.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Three years after &lt;I&gt;Garden State&lt;/I&gt;'s name-drop, the Shins released &lt;I&gt;Wincing the Night Away&lt;/I&gt; (2007), which debuted at Number Two on the Billboard sales chart, a first in Sub Pop history and received a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Album.
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&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
The Shins formed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the late 1990s under the name Flake Music. The group &amp;#8212; featuring singer-songwriter James Mercer, bassist Neal Langford, keyboardist Martin Crandall, and drummer Jesse Sandoval &amp;#8212; released one album, &lt;I&gt;When You Land Here, It's Time To Return&lt;/I&gt; (1997) before changing its name to the Shins and signing a deal with Sub Pop Records.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Released in 2001, the Shins' proper debut, &lt;I&gt;Oh, Inverted World&lt;/I&gt;, was a critical success, with haunting pop numbers such as "New Slang" and "Caring is Creepy." The album not only caught the attention of McDonald's &amp;#8212; which placed "New Slang" in a television spot, but it also helped re-establish the profile of Sub Pop, which had been without a marquee artist for much of the late 1990s.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
After touring behind &lt;I&gt;World&lt;/I&gt;, the band parted ways with Langford and brought in Dave Hernandez to work on &lt;I&gt;Chutes Too Narrow&lt;/I&gt; (Number 86, 2003), a less sleepy-eyed and more bustling follow-up. The Shins' biggest breakthrough, however, came the next year, when two of the group's songs were included in the winsome Zach Braff vehicle &lt;I&gt;Garden State&lt;/I&gt;. The film's soundtrack was certified platinum, though its success riled some Shins fans, some of whom felt that the band's appeal was partly due to its well-kept secrecy.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Three years after &lt;I&gt;Garden State&lt;/I&gt;'s name-drop, the Shins released &lt;I&gt;Wincing the Night Away&lt;/I&gt; (2007), which debuted at Number Two on the Billboard sales chart, a first in Sub Pop history and received a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Album.
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