BIOGRAPHY
Shannon and the Clams formed in Oakland, California, after singer-bassist Shannon Shaw and guitarist Cody Blanchard began playing together in 2007 while students at the California College of the Arts. The lineup grew to include keyboardist Will Sprott and drummer Nate Mahan, following earlier drummer Ian Amberson. The band built a discography from the retro-leaning debut I Wanna Go Home through Sleep Talk and Dreams in the Rat House, eventually signing to Dan Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound label after he championed the band, producing 2018's Onion and the 2024 release The Moon Is in the Wrong Place, made in the wake of Shaw's fiance's death in 2022.