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Girl Talk, whose digital samples draw on trendy and retro pop and hip-hop tracks, is widely known for his energetic performances.

Mad Men has the coolest everything, but I particularly enjoy the music used in each episode.

The band, which toured earlier this year in support of Counting Crows and The Decemberists on separate outings before launching its current headlining trek, wraps things up with two shows in its hometown starting Dec.

Band emphasizes timeless sound, downplays Victorian preciousness The Decemberists "The Hazards of Love" Capitol Rating: *** "The Rake's Song" may be the most picaresque song in a career full of them.

Happy Friday! I hate to break it to you, but I have the day off, so I won't be around later.

I know that when fans read in Paste Oct '06 that The Decemberists' Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis would put out a children's book "about a talking cat who lives in turn-of-the-century Butte, Montana," many people stopped uploading greenscreen videos to YouTube and hustled to have a kid in time for the "mid-2007" release.

We've seen Secretly Canadian ABBA enthusiasts Music Go Music do "Warm In The Shadows" on an invented '70s talk show .

Track The February Train Artist/Band Beat Circus Duration 4:16 Album Boy From Black Mountain Record Label Cuneiform Description A very artful-yet-accessible album with great lyrics, memorable songs and rich orchestrations.

Decemberists lead singer Colin Meloy and his wife Carson Ellis are certainly no strangers to intra-marital artistic alliance - she's responsible for the art for all of band's albums and of his solo CDs, plus most of The Decemberists' merchandise and a couple of live show backdrops, too.

Decemberists singer/guitarist Colin Meloy and his wife, artist Carson Ellis , are set to release a children's book called The Unfortunate Demise Of Whitley Rackham .

Towards a Theory of NPR's Taste in Black Music In August, National Public Radio's flagship music program All Songs Considered published "The Best Music of 2009 ," a rundown of the top 30 songs and albums of the year-to-date as voted by the show's listeners.

Not a lot of ambiguity in that album art is there? Hearts were battered in the making of " Know Better Learn Faster ." As has most often been the case in the history of popular music, that makes for more interesting listening than sunshine, sparrows and such.

Fans of The Decemberists may recognize Laura Veirs ' distinct vocal talents from their song "Yankee Bayonet" off of their 2006 album The Crane Wife .

The album: White Water, White Bloom The spin: One-time film student Alex Brown Church, through the vessel that is Sea Wolf, plays the role of the wayfaring protagonist seamlessly in White Water, White Bloom .

Presented by Live Nation. Produced by Flux; visuals produced by Hornet. Reviewed October 18, 2009 Band: Colin Meloy, Chris Funk, Jenny Conlee, Nate Query, John Moen.

I still have lingering inspiration and excitement after attending the Crafty Bastards Arts & Crafts Fair in Adams Morgan earlier this month on October 3, 2009.

The curiously trendy "woodsmen" look, which consists of flannel shirts, shaggy hair, beards and knit caps, served hipsters well on Sunday at the third annual Treasure Island Music Festival.

Music found its way early to 18-year-old Sarah Jarosz, beginning with solfge and ear training in kindergarten and culminating with her participation for seven consecutive years in the Organization of American Kodaly Educators National Honor Choir.

These days, those directors have moved on to bigger screens, but their legacy lives on - if not in pockets like Subterranean and mtvU then definitely online, where the work of professionals and amateurs alike have near-equal standing on sites like YouTube and Vimeo.

As she wraps up her U.S. tour with The Decemberists , Laura Veirs has begun calling out to fans in another way: a music-video contest.