I don't know if you guys know this about me, but I am tall. As in: Freaky tall, NBA-starting-center tall, regularly-hit-my-head-on-doorways tall. (Here's an article that I wrote about it a few months ago.) This is mostly a good thing. People remember my name, I can see at shows, and I can reach things on…

Every month, Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda shares a new Hamilton-inspired song as part of what he calls his Hamildrops. In the recent past, that's included tracks from people like "Weird Al" Yankovic and the Decemberists -- people who, you might not be shocked to learn, might do songs inspired by Broadway musicals. The eternally hard&#...

The new Decemberists album What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World starts with an intensely winky meta-song called “The Singer Addresses His Audience.” The band just started touring behind the album, and they played the first show of that tour two nights ago in Dublin. Colin Meloy opened the show by playing a solo-acous...

The Decemberists have shared “The Wrong Year,” another new song from their forthcoming new album What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World. It’s the third single from the record following “Make You Better” and “Lake Song.” The track is accompanied by a lyric video put toge...

The Decemberists stopped by Conan last night to perform “Make You Better,” the lead single from their forthcoming new album What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World. The last time the band appeared on a late-night show was back in 2011 when they performed two The King Is Dead tracks on Kimmel. Watch their [...]