Listening through The Decemberists' discography calls to mind ambling into a top-flight used bookstore. The breadth of offerings can be somewhat overwhelming. Each tune feels like one of the novels ...

They've written sea shanties and folk operas, heavy metal epics and jaunty odes to chimney sweeps, doomed mariners and forest dwellers. Every song is a novella for The Decemberists. It's taken six ...

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 ...

The post The Decemberists Announce 2024 Tour Dates, Release First New Song in Six Years: Stream appeared first on Consequence. The Decemberists have announced a 2024 North American tour and released ...

In a 2022 interview with Publishers Weekly, Colin Meloy talked about discovering author Stephen King in the sixth grade — writing that inspired his own work as a novelist of such young adult books as ...

The Decemberists have announced their new album, As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again, out on June 14th via YABB Records (Thirty Tigers). As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again is not only the longest ...

The Decemberists have released a new single, “Oh No!” The track, which appears on their forthcoming new album is chock full of The Decemberists most defining characteristics - vibrant storytelling, ...

The Decemberists will return in style June 14 with As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again, their ninth full-length and first new release since 2018’s I’ll Be Your Girl. Colin Meloy has led the Portland, ...

On a light-drenched stage, Colin Meloy looked every bit the descendent of the spirit that fueled his band's namesake. Their moniker inspired by the revolution that occurred in Russia in December of ...

Colin Meloy writes novels in the forms of songs. His band The Decemberists returns with their ninth studio album, As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again. They've written sea shanties and folk operas, ...