'Tis the season for giving and hall-decking and so forth, and in the spirit of both, Oregon's Glass Casters Union is back with another round of indie rock-themed charity ornaments.Last year, the GCU offered up decorations designed by the likes of Wolf Parade, Band of Horses, Of Montreal, Deerhunter, and, for those bad-ass little boys and girls, ...

Photo by Carlie Armstrong"The band was enthusiastic and animated and even stopped to pepper the crowd with pithy banter," Keegan Hamilton of St. Louis' Riverfront Times A to Z music blog writes of Saturday evening's Wolf Parade show at the city's Gargoyle Club.Pithy banter like this: the announcement that Dante DeCaro, the band's guitarist, woul...