Hyperliterate indie-rock veterans the Decemberists put out their synth-heavy new album I'll Be Your Girl earlier this year. And earlier today, they took it to CBS This Morning, performing anthemic early single "Once In My Life" for the show's long-running Saturday Sessions series. Sadly, they didn't bring the really tall guy from the music video...

The Decemberists have released a new music video for their latest single 'Once In My Life'.

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...