The Decemberists News

The Weakerthans, The National and The Decemberists might constitute rock 'n' roll's literati - perhaps rightfully so.

Spencer Krug's Sunset Rubdown project continually grows in scope, developing from a bedroom project to its current five-piece assemblage.

With thick blankets draped over the windows of her Portland home, musician Laura Veirs and an assortment of local legends--including The Decemberists ' Chris Funk and My Morning Jacket 's Jim James--composed music to chase away the winter chill.

The Decemberists are currently featured on Current TV's "Embedded" - which if you haven't seen yet is a great show on an equally cool network.

Jasmin Johnson, a musician and sophomore at Clackamas High School, has never met Emme Ek, but the little girl's story moved her.

There is no doubting Colin Meloy's ambition for his music. The last time he brought the Decemberists to London from Oregon, the band opened their set with a 20-minute folk-prog-metal epic based on an Irish legend.

The Decemberists' latest album evokes a long-gone era of rock mythology, ye olde days of yore when damsels in flowing white robes sang mysteriously about nature and wild-haired berserkers played shrieking axe solos.

The Decemberists has set a date for the online premiere of its "full-length video album," titled Here Comes the Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized .

Perhaps inspired by its own content regarding shape-shifters, the latest album by The Decemberists , The Hazards Of Love is changing once again.

Accordion player Tara Linda poses for a portrait with her musical instrument, Monday, Oct.

Decemberists guitarist and girlfriend create YouWho!, so parents and kids can rock together.

A packed crowd dances, cheers and sings along as the Decemberists perform at the first of monthly shows specifically crafted to appeal to parents and their kids.

It was easy to believe that Langhorne Slim 's earlier recordings were the fruits of brief, buoyant bursts in the studio, because that's what they sounded like.

Producers are studio wizards, the men - why are they always men? - behind the scenes, laying the sonic foundation for our favorite albums.

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.