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The stream-a-day MySpace rollout of the Dessner brothers' Dark Was The Night charity compilation gets a bump today with a trio of tracks, courtesy of a cute little widget player and a smattering of heavy hitting contributors. There's the Decemberists' eight-minute cure for insomnia ironically titled "Sleepless," for starters, but after you get drowsy skip on to the pair of cuts which feature the National twins. First there's Bryce Dessner sitting in with Antony on the rolling, open-road acoustic cut "I Was Young When I Left Home," which sees Hegarty embodying yet another of Arthur Russell's various, varying modes, the song sounding something like an outtake to last year's outstanding Chris Taylor-compiled Russell rarity comp Love Is Overtaking Me. After that there's a second contribution from Justin Vernon, who joins with Aaron Dessner, a piano, and a string section on "Big Red Machine." Listen:
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The band visited the KCRW show “Morning Becomes Eclectic” yesterday to do some songs from The King Is Dead as well as this cover from R.E.M. The original appears on 1986’s Lifes Rich Pageant. “Cuyahoga” refers to the Cuyahoga River in Ohio, a river so polluted it’s caught fire over 13 t...
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The Decemberists: Announce New Tour Leg
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The Decemberists have announced a second U.S. tour leg for the Spring
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Bloodshot Records sent over this big news for Justin Townes Earle fans.
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The Decemberists: Go No 1
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The Decemberists have scored their first-ever no. 1
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Cake: Decemberists Unthrone Cake For #1 Album
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According to Billboard, The King Is Dead is the band’s first number one, selling 94,000 its first week. It’s also a career-high for first week sales for the Decemberists. Of course the condition of the music industry is partially why this record — as well as so many of last year’s surprise number ones and ...
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