In a recent gig at Beck’s Festival Bar, in Sydney, The Decemberists played a brand new song, called “Springville.” Someone from the audience caught the song on tape being performed live solely by the band’s frontman Colin Meloy and his beautifully strung acoustic guitar. The sound is very folksy and warm, like much of their [...]
I simply loved this stunning animated video for The Decemberists “The Rake’s Song” from the very first moment I hit play! It’s all very well put together, revealing a colorful winter landscape, packed with an usual feel good vibe and equally feel good dancing cardboard figurines. The video was was created and directed in Moscow, [...]
Photo courtesy of Chris Devers.
Portland rockers The Decemberists have just announced details of a Fall tour which will begin in Newport, RI at the Newport Folk Festival and end across the Atlantic in the UK at London’s Coronet.
The full tour schedule is as follows,
08/01 Newport, RI - Newport Folk Festival
08/02 Montreal, Quebec - Osheaga Music [...]
The next The Decemberists album is getting near and, consequently, the guys have decided to put up their first single, “The Rake’s Song,” off the upcoming “The Hazards of Love,” for free/legal download. The songs loopy acoustic string guitar puts you in a sorta hypnotic trance, as the band’s lead vocalist, Colin Meloy, narrates a [...]
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
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