The Decemberists have announced a Summer 2022 North American tour ARISE FROM THE BUNKERS. Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy described the upcoming tour in a note to fans: “We’re wiping away the accumulated grime from
Where previous releases found the band plodding along with ten to twelve minute meditations about murderous butchers, mysterious fowl, and shape-shifting lovers, The King Is Dead hearkens back to the earlier days of the band where Colin Meloy and company littered albums like Castaways and Cutouts with compact, yet charitably worded, pastoral folk rock. Boosted with appearances by alt-country superstars Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, and graced with guitar stylings courtesy of the legendary Peter Buck, this album gallops along like a pleasant country breeze, projecting an aura of calmness and satisfaction and providing a concise rejoinder to the stylized grandeur of releases like The Tain EP and The Hazards of Love.
In an effort to keep his vocal pipes in top working condition between tours with The Who, the band’s charismatic front man, Roger Daltrey, will head out for 29 city
Anyone who has followed the Decemberists’ rise from just another quirky Portland, OR band to one of the most unique and celebrated indie acts around knew that this album was coming. With The Hazards of Love, Colin Meloy takes the band from the loose maritime and old-world concepts of their previous records to full-on rock opera.
As good years go, 2006 was a particularly good one forThe Decemberists. Their Capitol Records debut, The Crane Wife, arrivedto great acclaim, landing on numerous year-end "best of" lists including#1
Stephen Colbert slayed the competition in a "Shred Off" with the Decemberists tonight — or at least he claimed to have. Wednesday night’s "Colbert Report" on Comedy Central was dedicated
It would be easy to file The Crane Wife under progressive-revivalists, since the eclectic instrumentals, swirling keyboards, and storybook lyrics make it feel like an early Genesis album, however The Crane Wife is a courageous, defiant, and whimsical record that commands your attention, and your intimidation.
On the surface, with iPods selling in the millions, downloads becoming more and more accessible, and even the actual coining of the moniker, 'The MySpace Generation,' 2006 may appear to be a relatively quiet year for the album. But taken as a whole, it was actually another solid year for LP releases. Sure, there were less blockbusters and a few too many prematurely hyped 'next best thing' mp3s, but when we sat down to go over the piles of CDs, there were more than enough quality titles that had to be reluctantly voted off the island. What we ended up with was a list that offered a little bit of everything – a blurring of genres and styles, featuring artists who created definitive statements – easily identifiable as 2006, but timeless all the same.
Seeing as the venue was right across the street from the place where Paul Revere got the memo before taking his famous ride, the sextet’s front-man, Colin Meloy, even made a point to comment on the fact that their pre-civil war surroundings were probably built by “enslaved Nubian units.”
The progressive programming and the continuous breaking of new artists has solidified both terrestrial and online listening audiences that respond with intense loyalty.
