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Found in: Music, NewsDecemberists' Colin Meloy talks Hazards of Love
In the wake of last week's maddeningly brief announcement that recording had wrapped and mixing commenced on the Decemberists' upcoming fifth release... read more
Found in: Music, NewsThe Decemberists finish tracking new album Hazards of Love
Yep, that's pretty much it. In a band newsletter sent out last night discussing the previously reported Always the Bridesmaid vinyl singles series and subsequent tour dates, The Decemberists left their fans with this sneaky little teaser:"In other news, we've officially closed the book on tracking our next record and mixing starts tomorrow! We're all tremendously pleased with the outcome thus far. It's called 'Hazards of Love.' That's all we'll say now."You Ain't No Picasso posted six new Decemberists songs a couple months back, including a couple that seem likely to be included on the new record, "Hazards of Love... read more
Found in: Music, NewsDecemberists set for Bridesmaid tour in November
The Decemberists made us very happy in 2006, and the wealth of tour dates that followed certainly didn't hurt. But it had been a quiet 2008 for the band, now at work on a follow-up to The Crane Wife, until we got wind of Always the Bridesmaid: The Singles Series. The series—which, as we reported before, includes an “amorous” nod to Valerie Plame—begins to roll out on Oct. 14, and the band has announced a bundle of new dates to go with it.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsDecemberists prep Bridesmaid vinyl singles series
"Always the bridesmaid, never the bride." Comfortingly, this little gem of self-pity is finally going to... read more
Found in: Music, NewsDecemberists to get "mossy, evil" in studio
Colin Meloy of the Decemberists wants his band’s next album to sound like a swamp monster. Or, maybe he didn’t say that, exactly, just that he wanted the pending record to be “mossy” and “evil.” At first, these terms don’t seem to describe the Portland-based group any better than, say, “Indonesian” or “Ska,” but like a blanket of moss in a forest gully, their melodies are lush, and through some of the darker ballads like “Mariner’s Revenge Song,” have frequently spread into nefarious territory. Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes;... read more
Found in: Music, NewsColin Meloy drops live solo album, Decemberists go NW
We like the Decemberists. A lot. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that we only like frontman Colin Meloy 20% as much as we like the band as a whole. Paste, after all, has much like to give. And our reserves of affection seems especially appropriate, because both Meloy and the entire band have some upcoming adventures. The Decemberists are playing four shows in the Pacific Northwest, and there’s nothing like tales of shipwrecks to put your sadness over rain and fog into perspective. As for Meloy himself, he’s about to drop a solo tour CD on April 8, via Kill... read more
Found in: Music, NewsThe Decemberists cancel rest of tour
We've got it easy. If we get sick, we phone in the sniffles, add a cough for effect and spend the day wondering why "narcolepsy" isn't listed under Benadryl's side effects. But if you're in the midst of a nationwide tour like the Decemberists, you've got a lot of unhappy ticket holders to deal with. The charmingly rustic quintet was forced to cancel its "The Long and Short of It" tour - a whopping 27 dates - so their unnamed band member can mend. "It saddens us to disappoint our fans," Decemberists.com reports. It saddens us that we can't witness... read more
Found in: Music, NewsDecemberists Go Orchestral
In addition to having the best name for their summer tour, “A Bit of Grass-Stain Does Not a Ruined Pair of Jeans Make,” the Decemberists now have the coolest shows of the summer. The band has announced that they will make their “orchestral debut” in five cities this summer, with a different symphony orchestra backing them at each date. These gigs will be interspersed between their already announced shows. Also announced is the band’s European fall tour, “A Great Smiting of Chavs,” beginning in September. For more, check out where the Decemberists latest, The Crane Wife landed on the Paste... read more
Found in: Music, NewsDecemberists Launch Crane Wife Tour, Pt. 2
The Decemberists may have lost the Countdown To Guitarmageddon to Stephen Colbert, but they aren’t letting one meager defeat at the hands of a faux neo-con TV pundit (or, rather, his shredding minion, Peter Frampton) get them down. After wrapping up a brief European jaunt in late February, the band will kick off yet another tour of the United States, playing again in support of their fourth LP, The Crane Wife. Released by Capitol Records last October, the album topped a number of music critics’ Best of 2006 lists, including Paste’s. My Brightest Diamond will support The Decemberists for all... read more
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