CONSEQUENCE of SOUND
Have you listened to the leak of The Stand Ins? Apparently, then, you've seen Okkervil River naked. Listen to this live interview of Will Sheff hours before their Lollapalooza performance. August 3, 2008.
Venus Zine
Add Stealth Artist to Will Sheff's resume. August 3, 2008.
A.V. Club
A visit with St. Sheff, gruntled superhero, and his friend, Carl Newman, at the Sasquatch! Music Festival. Scroll down to the 2:15 p.m. minute mark. May 25, 2008.
Tiny Mix Tapes
When the pope fails, Will Sheff prevails. April 2008
smh.com
The whole platforms and glam route might suit you, Will. (We certainly get a glitter titter from that mental picture! Perhaps if you try drinking the mineral water?) February 21, 2008
Beat
Online Australian "streetpaper" interview with Will. Twenty minutes or eleven years, it's all perfection to us! February 20, 2008
Hattiesburg American
An interview/album review/precede with Jonathan and Bill Callahan on their February 2008 tour. That's right, Jonathan, it is like riding a bicycle (isn't everything?)! February 18, 2008
Austin 360
Championing Hall and Oates and finally appreciating Fleetwood Mac while thinking "Magical Mystery Tour." Ah, now we get it! October 29, 2007
Harp
Propped up and prettified (Yeah, Travis. We're wondering what Jonathan's looking at too.). November/December 2007
The Houston Chronicle
Misogynistic melodrama sprinkled with endearing derision (or something...). October 5, 2007
Exclaim!
Canada's Music Authority says Will Sheff is "definitely a musician." Will agrees (Hey Will, who said anything about elbow patches? The pipe, on the other hand, that could be sexy...) September 2007
Gothamist
Memories, good food and the pathetic truth. September 24, 2007
The Boston Globe
Will Sheff pleads for pathos played during daylight hours, plus William Schaff on the ambivalent cover art for The Stage Names. September 21, 2007
Nerve Insider
Let's just pretend we didn't read past the point where it's implied that Will has something against vampire movies ... you know, because we're too busy throwing our lives away on porn and sad songs about sex. September 18, 2007
The Daily Iowan
Brilliance, bullshit and bliss. Yeah, that sounds like Okkervil River to me. September 13, 2007
The Denver Post
Irresponsible editing occurs here. Will talks again about tragic fans, and about being insufferable. That's ok, Will, no offense taken ... we still respect Peter Sellers! September 7, 2007
San Francisco Bay Guardian
If you can get past the opening (and it was hard to do, let me tell you!), you'll find that Will Sheff finds things in his life which parallel that of Clara Bow (Don't we all?). Imagine that! Will Sheff is the IT boy! September 6, 2007
Portland Mercury
We've been telling you forever, the more people you invite, the bigger the party! Thanks for finally RSVPing. September 6, 2007
Straight.com
Our good friend Will talks about tightrope walking, becoming a commodity and, again, how if you write it, it will happen! September 6, 2007
National Public Radio
On NPR's All Things Considered, Will talks with Debbie Elliott about giving gifts of ear candy, swimming in a referential soup, how the most beautifully uplifting, alien art can come from the basest, ugliest, most woefully earthbound creatures...He touches on how spirituality and sexuality seeps into fan-dom and fondness for the fruits of creative exploration, and how that exploratory impulse is a sacrificial choice, which both delights and discomforts him. September 2, 2007.
The Nerve Magazine Online
But we love a good howl! September, 2007
San Diego Reader
...Yeah, and just imagine what Will could do with The Third Man! August 30, 2007
Albuquerque Alibi
I pledge allegiance to the truth. {Is that ironic, somehow? Or are we just easily amused?} August 30, 2007.
Arizona Daily Star
The barometer of excitement and big-headed bloggers (Will swears he doesn't dye his hair!). August 30, 2007.
SF Gate
Okkervil faces extinction armed with ineffable logic. August 30, 2007.
GenArtPulse
Road Trip 101: Travis says it's the extras that make you feel really bad. A rare article that talks to all of Okkervil, if ever so briefly. August 28, 2007.
Arizona Central.com
Never just treading water, Will speaks of the struggle to stay afloat now that the band is sailing smoothly toward success. August 27, 2007.
Sign On San Diego/San Diego Union Tribune
Velvety croons, steady stomps and twinkle bells? Sounds like fairy tale fodder, but is actually a dual precede on Damien Jurado and our fit and "well-coifed" young lads (and the Union Tribune pays their editors!). August 24, 2007.
Albuquerque Journal
Will's uncomfortable positions and special identities. August 24, 2007.
A.V. Club.com
What do you mean it's not all caviar and cocaine? Will explains the art of bloodless catharsis. August 21, 2007.
Pitchfork
Oh, the inescapable velocity of fandom! August 20, 2007.
Under The Radar
Will talks about the live response to dead presidents, the way in which the worst ideas often make the best songs and the journey out of the darkness of Black Sheep Boy and into the (spot) light of The Stage Names. July 2007.
Time Off
Band unity, rock and roll immediacy and the pressure to repeat success with The Stage Names are familiar themes enacted in this recent Aussie article.
Pitchfork
Pitchfork's "painterly" precede for The Stage Names. June 2007
The Believer
An interview with Will Sheff from Okkervil River's spring 2006 tour; all about stabbings, soul music and sexuality from "the saddest band in Scotland." May 2007.
Coke Machine Glow.com
Interviewer Aaron Newell attempts ingratiation, but succeeds in irritation, as he asks Will all manner of "literary" music criticism questions. Annoying and amusing all at once! March 2007.
SXSW on YouTube.com
A video interview with a very tired Will Sheff, in between recording sessions for The Stage Names and performances at Austin's SXSW music conference. March 2007.
Austin Sound
An interview via email with Will prior to the postponed Hogg Auditorium show. January, 25 2007.
Muzzle Of Bees.com
Biting the festival that feeds you, road record recommendations and direct, digital contact versus cultural inflation. Thought-provoking opinions from a pre-show parley. October 7, 2006.
Rave Magazine
Take some sweating, moaning, groaning and feng shui; add Leonard Cohen, Woody Guthrie and George Michael. Is it any wonder Australia finds its interviews with Will so fascinating? September 2006.
X-Press Online
Will speaks to this Australian publication in advance of the Overboard and Down EP, and Okkervil River's second tour of Australia and New Zealand. Money. That's what they want! September 2006.
The Beat
“Celebrities do…odious things.” Here’s more coverage of the energetically ornate (or ornately energetic?) second trip to Australia. August 30, 2006.
The Dwarf.com
Australia loves Okkervil! Mr. Sheff moves a bed, shares the nicest thing ever said about him, and promises not to write crap. August 2006.
FasterLouder.com
Journalistic counseling, Australian amnesia and buying beer with Will Sheff in 2006.
National Public Radio
Entitled, "Spookiness and Bloodshed," this is a short blurb on Black Sheep Boy, featuring Will's "Overkill" quip for NPR's Weekend Edition. January 2006.
Pitchfork
News item (scroll down to 4th story) about Okkervil River headlining KEXP's annual Yule Benefit at Neumos in Seattle. December 2005
dB Magazine
Another Aussie article, in which it is discovered that constant touring can be hazardous to your health. Caution: Rock Stars Playing! November/December, 2005.
Iowa State Daily
A zoo animal? A chain gang? What's the baby Jesus been drinking?! Will's got the heebie jeebies (gotta jump back, jump back) but people keep painting the stage black. It sucks to be sick in a van. November 11, 2005.
La Blogotheque
Deconstructing Okkervil and living life with your sleeves rolled up. October 2005.
Said the Gramophone
Said the Guests: Will Robinson Sheff . Will's insightful writing on troubled troubadour Tim Hardin, his songs and his influence. August 2005
Rolling Stone
Will had a “desire to be called pretentious and a pompous blowhard and, for [Black Sheep Boy], to be very grand." Way to pull the wool over their eyes, Will! April 5, 2005.
The Austin Chronicle
Okkervil River's hometown weekly charts the band's evolution from Bedroom to Black Sheep Boy. April 1, 2005.
Lazy-I
Tim McMahon discusses Black Sheep Boy with Will Sheff in this interview from April, 2005.
Pop Matters.com
Will regales journalist Peter Funk with tales of lifting lattes from the headliners, and theorizes on the thrills of subverting modern morality. April, 2005.
The Austin Chronicle
The Decemberists are to The Replacements, as Okkervil River are to cheesy overindulgence. Wait… January 21, 2005.
Three Imaginary Girls.com
Seattle's sparkliest ask Will about drinking coffee (naturally), dueting with Daniel Johnston (astutely) and dating Winona Ryder (obviously). December 3, 2003.
NOW Magazine - Music in Toronto
Troubled souls and tribute songs, fairy tales and scary scars. Who's afraid of Will Sheff? Not Travis! November 2003.
Erasing Clouds
A meandering, sweet little stream of babbling and gushing from an obvious Okkervil River devotee, this Down The River Of Golden Dreams-era article flows swiftly over every piece of OR lore, including a bit of Bright Eyes backlash. October 2003.
The Austin Chronicle
Between tours, and just before a SXSW showcase, Will gets cuddly with us for the release of Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See. March 15, 2003.
Comes With A Smile
The interview where Will famously fetes failure and argues against the "alt.country" characterization often attached to Okkervil River. 2002.
Lazy-I
Tim McMahon reveals the three reasons people write about music, talks about Appalachian music, murder, family men and fame with Will, and falls in love with Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See in this Lazy-I interview from 2002.
The Austin Chronicle
Will, Seth and Zach expound on truth, blood and irony, and the writer makes a comparison to Radiohead. Perhaps she was being ironic? March 3, 2000.