Few lyricists of the last 20 years can claim the catalog Colin Meloy has amassed with his band, the Decemberists. Their records are like novels, dense with story arcs of French soldier POVs, Romeo & ...

The Decemberists have announced a short North American Summer Tour. The band will play two Canadian festival dates - Ottawa Blues Festival and Halifax Jazz Festival before headlining a string of ...

The unique and diverse stylings of the Decemberists and their music have captured the hearts of many for more than two decades, and the Pacific Northwest band won’t be too far from home when it rolls ...

Listening through The Decemberists' discography calls to mind ambling into a top-flight used bookstore. The breadth of offerings can be somewhat overwhelming. Each tune feels like one of the novels ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It sounds nothing, in fact, like the band from Portland, Oregon’s two previous records, each one rooted in American alt-folk-rock; ...

Although there were plenty of fans of their first two records, Picaresque, the third album from the Portland, Oregon-based band The Decemberists, helped make them more of a household name among indie ...

In the Pacific Northwest, there’s a culture of vibrant creativity. Hopeful artists flock to cities like Seattle and Portland, congregating in ramshackle apartment buildings or old houses, splitting ...

In the six years since the Decemberists’ 2018 LP, I’ll Be Your Girl, the band’s members have been busy—and just not with the Decemberists. Nearly a quarter-century deep, the Decemberists have become a ...

Chris Funk is no stranger to working in music. We’re not just talking about his longtime role as a multi-instrumentalist in one of Portland’s most beloved bands, The Decemberists—Funk has done it all, ...

We've Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, ...

Colin Meloy has a voice from another time. So it’s not surprising that he finds inspiration in topics that have a mythical, long ago feeling to them. The singer and primary songwriter of Portland, Ore ...