Okkervil River archive
Listen All Songs Considered Listeners Pick The Best Music Of 2007
December 20, 2007 – Tens of thousands of listeners voted for the year's best CDs, with Radiohead coming out on top.
Read A Remarkable Year: Robin Hilton's Top Ten CDs for 2007
December 20, 2007 – All Songs Considered producer Robin Hilton shares his picks for the best CDs of 2007.
Read The Best Songs of the Year, from KUT KUT
December 12, 2007 – KUT music director Jeff McCord picks the 10 songs whose company he most enjoyed. KUT
Read Top CDs of 2007, from 'The Current' KCMP
December 3, 2007 – Steve Seel, host on Minnesota Public Radio's The Current, picks his Top 10 albums of the year. KCMP
Listen Okkervil River: Devastating Wordplay WXPN
November 12, 2007 – The songs on The Stage Names number among the groundbreaking group's finest work. WXPN
Listen Okkervil River in Concert
September 30, 2007 – Hear the Austin art-rock group Okkervil River recorded live in concert from Washington, D.C.
Listen For Okkervil River, a Pop Slant on Thorny Issues
September 2, 2007 – Bandleader Will Sheff discusses his band's catchy but complex new album, The Stage Names.
Listen Okkervil River: Intensely Emotional WXPN
August 20, 2007 – The songs on The Stage Names number among the groundbreaking group's finest work. WXPN
Listen Peel, David Dondero, John Vanderslice
July 26, 2007 – The best yet from Austin's Okkervil River; Infectious, feel-good pop from Peel; 16th century cho...
Listen SXSW Sessions: Okkervil River KEXP
March 16, 2007 – Okkervil River's emotion-drenched performances are intense to the point of seeming overwrought. KEXP
Listen The Best of 'Song of the Day'
December 25, 2006 – All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen chats with Stephen Thompson, editor for NPR's Song of the D...
Listen A Powerful Look at an Imaginary Tragedy
October 26, 2006 – On "The President's Dead," Okkervil River studies a fictional assassination from all angles.
Listen Okkervil River's Music: Spookiness and Bloodshed
January 8, 2006 – The band from Austin, Texas, pulls a name from Russia but a sound with roots in folk and the blues.