The Shins played their first show under the new line-up which leaves James as the only original member left. You start to wonder if he’s gonna change the name to James Mercer’s Shins.
The show took place at the Wow Hall in Eugene, Oregon. One Thirty BPM was quick to point out that they did a cover of David Bowie’s “Ashes To Ashes”. Check out two versions of the cover from last night after the jump. One of them misses the start of the song, but is in better quality. The other captures the whole thing but isn’t as clean.
Both are via 130BPM:









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