“You gotta hear this one song. It’ll change your life, I swear,” Natalie Portman’s character, Sam, says in the movie, “Garden State.” She’s talking about the song, “New Slang,” by The Shins. B ack in May, I met up with one of my best friends from college at the Sasquatch Music Festival at the Gorge […]
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It’ll Change Your Life
James Mercer of The Shins talks festivals, crowd response around the world, songwriting and “Garden State”