Given our state of economic chaos and the subsequent collapse of consumer confidence in everything but gold bullion and good times, music festivals are learning they need to go big or go home. Sasquatch! just went pretty big. This year's party, poised as always to be the best way to spend your Memorial Day weekend, will fill the picturesque Gorg...

Every rose has its thorn. Or, as the full title of the first non-"Prelude" track from the Decemberists' forthcoming rock opera puts it: "The Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle the Thistles Undone)". Our second glimpse of the theatrically antiquarian jangle-proggers' upcoming The Hazards of Love, after clambering cautionary t...

This weekend, Trent Reznor announced on the Nine Inch Nails website that his band would tour this year with fellow Lollapalooza 1991 alums Jane's Addiction (original lineup and everything!) and that this might actually be the last Nine Inch Nails tour ever. Well, now we've got one date on that tour: the Sasquatch Music Festival, at the reporte...

The Decemberists have announced the first leg of their Spring 2009 North American tour in support of The Hazards of Love

The Decemberists have announced the first leg of a North American tour, scheduled to kick off May 19 in Los Angeles, CA.