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The Decemberists' country-influenced new album The King Is Dead is due January 18 in North America via Capitol and a day earlier in Europe via Rough Trade. Don't expect a grand-scale rock opera ...
“The Hazards of Love,” the Decemberists’ most recent album, completed the Portland, Ore., quintet’s metamorphosis from indie folk rockers to a full-on prog-rock band. Filled with odd time ...
Carson Ellis, my girlfriend and the illustrator who does our album covers and T-shirts and stuff, she and I have been collaborating on a ghost story that I wrote a while back, and we also have a ...
The Decemberists, "I'll Be Your Girl" (Capitol) Frontman Colin Meloy wanted the Decemberists' new album to reflect the mood of the times, and sadly it's even more topical than intended.
The Decemberists, the folk-rock ensemble, have never been in a rush to release albums. But the band took more time than usual with its most recent, "What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World ...
The Decemberists have a new album on the way — and they’re dropping 19 minutes of it.. On Tuesday, the group released the 19-minute prog rock track “Joan in the Garden” as they announced ...
Meloy will be singing from his new recording Colin Meloy Sings the Kinks at the Fonda Theater in Hollywood tonight. He joined us to talk about it.
That certainly holds true for The Decemberists’ new double album, As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again — the band’s first release in six years, as well as the first on their own label, YABB ...
Whenever the Decemberists have released an album, Colin Meloy has wondered if it would be their last.Perhaps fans may have felt similarly after the release of their 2018 LP “I’ll Be Your Girl ...
The Decemberists Pave Their Own Way In our latest Digital Cover Story, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Colin Meloy discusses coming out on the other side of burnout, how a teenaged ...
January 19, 2018 at 3:41 pm PST. The Decemberists are apparently getting to their "difficult second album" about seven albums late. Earlier this week, the Portland indie-folk luminaries announced ...