Tennessee's Bonnaroo Festival is obviously a big deal, and its organizers are probably better at scoring the biggest names than any other festival organizers in these United States. Last year, for instance, they landed Metallica and Kanye West and Pearl Jam among the usual hordes of jam-bands and indie types. But this year they've outdone thems...

The Decemberists have announced that they will preview their entire forthcoming album at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas next month.

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 d...

When the Decemberists aren't making rock operas, they're still tilting with the windmills of jangly, theatrical, hyperliterate chamber pop. And I don't know if you know, but those things are damn tough to kill. On "Sleepless", the Portland, Ore., band's contribution to blog-savvy charity comp Dark Was the Night, Colin Meloy's weary entreaties o...

After all those Always The Bridesmaid singles collections, the more distorted, heavier, and, yes, slightly Billy Joe Armstrong-esque "The Rake's Song" suggested the Decemberists' new full-length The Hazards Of Live might be going in a ballsier direction. Relatively speaking here. This is the Decemberists we're talking about. As far as the tastef...