In the Pacific Northwest, there’s a culture of vibrant creativity. Hopeful artists flock to cities like Seattle and Portland, congregating in ramshackle apartment buildings or old houses, splitting ...

For nearly two decades, the building blocks of The Decemberists‘ reputation have been pretty consistent: strummy folk rock, old-fashioned words, historical tales and elegant melodies delivered via ...

Today is the official release date for the stop-motion feature Wildwood. The film is based on the 2011 fantasy novel which ...

THE DECEMBERISTS released a music video for The Better Part of Bravery, an original song written for LAIKA's stop-motion film ...

Each week in God and Country Music, Nick Rynerson gives country music a chance and examines the world of Americana, folk, alt-country, and popular country music. It turns out Gillian Welch was not ...

The Decemberists released their first new music since 2018, “Burial Ground.” The band also announced 2024 North American Tour dates including both spring and summer legs with support from Ratboys for ...

Few lyricists of the last 20 years can claim the catalog Colin Meloy has amassed with his band, the Decemberists. Their records are like novels, dense with story arcs of French soldier POVs, Romeo & ...

On Wednesday, May 27th, The Decemberists perform at Red Rocks with Spoon and Courtney Barnett. In certain circles, it’s de riguer to refer to Portland, Oregon’s the Decemberists as a pretentious ...

We can assume that the band's album title, The King Is Dead, is a cheerful one -- this is, after all, a group that took its name from an uprising, one of whose aims was to abolish monarchy, and which ...

Scotland-based hip-hop group Young Fathers were announced as the winners of the 2014 Barclaycard Mercury Prize, an annual award given to for "Best British Album" as determined by a panel of musicians, ...