August 2011
2 posts
July 2011
8 posts
“I give this book a very strong `no’ for a vast swath of readers, unless you are...”
– Amazing Amazon reviewer on WILDWOOD, out 8/30. Pre-order HERE if you fit the above description. (via colinmeloy)
June 2011
6 posts
WatchColin & Nate on CNN
“If you don’t like this record, then just wait and you’ll probably like the next one.” (There will be a next one?!)
May 2011
11 posts
help me update this thing!
Hey you Decemberisty Tumblrs, I’m looking to update the theme of thedecemberists.tumblr.com I don’t want it to look generic, but I have very limited skills at such things, so I’m looking to you for help! If anyone with some serious talent would like to help design/customize a new Decemberists theme, send me a note on here or email me at katie.russell@gmail.com
Thanks! K
I just heard the most horrible song in the...
supercurtisman:
The dude sings about how he got married to a girl to have a lot of sex. But instead she ended up getting pregnant four times and dying in the delivery of the fourth who also died. He wanted to be free to have more sex so he murdered his remaining children. He poisoned one. Drowned another. Burned another one alive.
The Decemberists - The Rake Song
A Note from Colin & Jenny.
Adored Mailing List Recipients, About a month ago, we all at Decemberists HQ got hit with some pretty hard news. Jenny Conlee, our since-the-very-beginning accordion and keyboard player and all-around rad person was diagnosed with breast cancer. If you or anyone in your world has been handed a similar diagnosis, you know what a bolt-out-of-the-blue this news can be. The good news is that Jenny...
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April 2011
6 posts
"This Is Why We Fight" Music Video →
March 2011
6 posts
The Decemberists are an immoral, liberal,... →
February 2011
23 posts
Watcha clip of Colin in this week’s Portlandia!
Pitchfork: Compared to The Hazards of Love, The King Is Dead is a very back-to-basics record. Did you think of it as a direct response to how some people received the last record?
Colin Meloy: It’s funny, because you can’t talk about this record without talking about The Hazards of Love. Everybody has come out of the woodwork talking about how that album was overwrought. It’s...
