In February, the Decemberists returned with the song “Burial Ground.” The following month, the folk-rock band announced their new album As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again and shared the 19-minute single “Joan In The Garden.” Today, they’re back with “All I Want Is You.”

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Twenty years ago this month, after rising to indie celebrity with a pair of well-received albums in quick succession, the Decemberists released The Tain, an EP comprising one nearly 19-minute song split into five movements. “The Tain” leaned hard into the literary folk-rock band’s prog-rock tendencies, foregrounding...

Here’s a litmus test for you: How does the thought of a surprise Lin-Manuel Miranda guest spot at a Decemberists concert sit with you? Do you find the prospect of such a collaboration delightful or unbearable? It’s hard to imagine many people landing in the middle there.

The Decemberists are currently on their Arise From The Bunkers tour, and on Thursday night they performed two new songs at Marymoor Park in Redmond, Washington. Among classics like “Leslie Anne Levine” and “Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect,” the band played new songs “Black Mariah” and ...