Shearwater
The Shearwater is a species of long-winged, low-flying seabird that encompasses many different genera, including the mid-size puffin. Shearwater is also a contemplative, atmospheric band from Austin, Texas founded in 2001 by musical collaborators Jonathan Meiburg and Will Sheff. You may be tempted to think the two Shearwaters had nothing to do with one another, and that the name was just a random, idle, stumbled-upon moniker (like band names so often are). But you’d be wrong. Meiburg, Shearwater’s principal songwriter, doubles as a serious bird lover and graduate of ornithology. He spent months studying seabirds in the Falkland Islands, Tierra del Fuego, New Zealand and the Galapagos, where he became an expert on the striated caracara. You may also be... Read More
- Genre:
- Rock, Alternative/Indie
- City Of Origin:
- Austin, ,Texas United States
- Formed Date:
- 2001
