In November, long-standing Irish folk legends the Chieftains announced that they were recording with Bon Iver, the Decemberists, Pistol Annies and more for their new LP, Voice Of Ages. Last month, we heard Bon Iver’s collaboration with the group, “Down In The Willow Garden,” and now the Decemberists’ contr...

The Decemberists have set a March 13 release date for We All Raise Our Voices To The Air (Live Songs 04.11-08.11).

I don’t care if your name is Seamus O’Hoolihan and you just ate a whole uncooked potato for breakfast; Justin Vernon and Colin Meloy can now effectively brag about being more Irish than you. That’s because both of them have recorded songs with the Chieftains, the long-running traditional Irish folk band. The Chiefta...

Next week the Decemberists are set to release the follow up to last year’s The King Is Dead, and earlier this week we shared the first song from that forthcoming EP, Long Live The King. Since the songs on the new EP are from the same sessions that produced The King Is Dead, they exhibit [...]

The Decemberists will soon follow up their big early-2011 hit album The King Is Dead with an EP called Long Live The King. The tracks on the EP come from the same sessions that produced The King Is Dead, so they’ve got a similarly rootsy sound, and you can hear that in the EP track [...]