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Music
August 17, 2011
The Decemberists' Pliant Assasin
Sara Watkins helps Colin Meloy murder an annoying monarch.
Blogs
June 15, 2011
Bumbershoot's Words, Performance, Vampire, and Sci-Fi Schedule Announced
It's not just music at Bumbershoot, or so the festival keeps trying to convince us. Each year a mixed-bag of authors and panels is tossed into the mix, and this year's Words & Ideas Stage (at the Rep) is no different. Again there are slam poets and spoken-word artists who will perform for oth ... More >>
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June 8, 2011
The Builders and The Butchers
It's not just music at Bumbershoot, or so the festival keeps trying to convince us. Each year a mixed-bag of authors and panels is tossed into the mix, and this year's Words & Ideas Stage (at the Rep) is no different. Again there are slam poets and spoken-word artists who will perform for oth ... More >>
Blogs
May 31, 2011
10 Things I Learned About The Young Evils, Sharon Jones, and Enjoying the Decemberists, Monday at Sasquatch!
Renee McMahonSharon Jones, with the Dap Kings, Monday at Sasquatch!See also the 19 things we learned on Friday, the 17 things we learned on Saturday, and the 15 things we learned on Sunday. 1. Sharon Jones worked harder than any other performer at the festival, and did not stop shaking or da ... More >>
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February 16, 2011
The Decemberists
Renee McMahonSharon Jones, with the Dap Kings, Monday at Sasquatch!See also the 19 things we learned on Friday, the 17 things we learned on Saturday, and the 15 things we learned on Sunday. 1. Sharon Jones worked harder than any other performer at the festival, and did not stop shaking or da ... More >>
Blogs
February 15, 2011
8 Songs Made Better Because Someone Put a Bird on It
IFC announced yesterday that they have signed everyone's favorite hipster-skewering show, Portlandia, for a second season. But if there's one thing we learned this time around, it's that everything looks better with a bird on it. Musically, there's something about birds that just suggests acoustic ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2011
Today Reverb Recommends You Dream of the '90s and Become Addicted to IFC's Portlandia
"Remember when people were content to be unambitious, sleep till 11, just hang out with their friends, have no occupations whatsoever, maybe working a couple hours a week at a coffee shop?" Fred Armisen asks Carrie Brownstein during the song "Dream of the '90s," which opens the first episode ... More >>
Blogs
January 28, 2011
2 Albums Released by Grandparents This Week That You Need to Hear Right Now
The sweatered kids from Portland may own the top of the Billboard charts this week, but veterans with as many grandchildren as Colin Meloy has Pendletons have the distinction of putting out a couple of the most impressive records of the week. Ladies first: Album: The Party Ain't Over Artist ... More >>
Blogs
January 11, 2011
Today Reverb Recommends You Give The Decemberists One More Chance and Stream Their New Album, The King Is Dead, on NPR
Chantal AndersonThe last time The Decemberists released an album worth listening to was over four years ago, with 2006's charming The Crane Wife. Which is why streaming the Portland folk-rockers country-drenched and R.E.M.-influenced new album, The King Is Dead, over at NPR is worth a couple ... More >>
Blogs
July 23, 2010
Faith In Goodness
I'm in LA and among my visits I went to Amoeba Music on Sunset Boulevard. I bought an armload of vinyl in an establishment that that has become an anachronism - the retail music store. The place is huge and full of shoppers. Maybe Duff needs to not leap so fast into the technology thing. So ... More >>
Blogs
June 11, 2010
This Weekend's Two Most Random Shows Set to Rock North Seattle
The music, like the poster, will be ragged, retro, and fun as fuck.Heard of a hard-rockin' local band called Los Testosterones? If you haven't, you've only got one more chance to see/hear them, and it's this Saturday night at Darrell's Tavern, a wholly enjoyable hovel of a bar in Shoreline ne ... More >>
Blogs
April 3, 2010
Today & Tonight: Citizen Cope In-Store at Easy Street, Black Prairie at the Tractor
Citizen Cope. Easy Street Records, 20 Mercer St., 691-3279. 3 p.m. Free. All ages. One morning last year, I was getting coffee at Starbucks in South Lake Union when I spotted a tall man with a familiar-looking dreadlocked ponytail. I eyed him suspiciously. "What's your name?" He shyly avoided ... More >>
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March 31, 2010
Black Prairie
Citizen Cope. Easy Street Records, 20 Mercer St., 691-3279. 3 p.m. Free. All ages. One morning last year, I was getting coffee at Starbucks in South Lake Union when I spotted a tall man with a familiar-looking dreadlocked ponytail. I eyed him suspiciously. "What's your name?" He shyly avoided ... More >>
Music
March 31, 2010
The Short List: The Week's Recommended Shows
Citizen Cope. Easy Street Records, 20 Mercer St., 691-3279. 3 p.m. Free. All ages. One morning last year, I was getting coffee at Starbucks in South Lake Union when I spotted a tall man with a familiar-looking dreadlocked ponytail. I eyed him suspiciously. "What's your name?" He shyly avoided ... More >>
Blogs
February 12, 2010
Wild Beasts: Annoying You into Submission
Wild BeastsWild Beasts is one of those polarizing bands that, depending on who you ask, is either insufferably irritating or unequivocally brilliant. For me, learning to like Hayden Thorpe's operatic, somewhat Gothic warbling was sort of like learning to like IPAs: basically, you've just got ... More >>
Blogs
November 5, 2009
A.M. Music News: Amazon Jumps the Gun, Kings of Leon Jump the Shark, and Colin Meloy Gets Creepy
Amazon doesn't want you to miss The Dutchess & the Duke's new album, Sunset/Sunrise. -- Sound on the Sound points out that it is indeed WAY too early for year-end lists, but it was classy of Amazon to recognize locals Throw Me the Statue, Brandi Carlile, Dutchess and the Duke, and a bunch of ... More >>
Blogs
July 23, 2009
I've Been Listening To The Decemberists' The Hazards of Love. It's Better On Vinyl!
I've been listening to the new Decemberists album, The Hazards of Love lately. Yes, ALBUM, on 180-gram vinyl. I like the strong melodies that Colin Meloy conjures. The vocal phrasing carry a lot of hooks. I've been a fan of the band since Picaresque. And it's with this work that endeared me t ... More >>
Blogs
July 20, 2009
Friday Night: The Decemberists at Marymoor Park
Chantal AndersonJenny Conlee, Colin Meloy and Becky Stark of The Decemberists perform at Marymoor Park on Friday, July 17, 2009A few months back, when The Hazards of Love first came out, I wrote a sort of relationship diary about my troubled love affair with the Decemberists and what happens when a ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2009
Win Tickets to Destroyer Tomorrow Night at the Croc!
You heard right, folks: one of the best songwriters of our time, Dan Bejar, is playing the Crocodile. Bejar's command of language is unmatched by any contemporary musician today. His use of words is similar to Jeff Mangum's, or maybe Colin Meloy's (even if you hate the Decemberists like so many of m ... More >>
Blogs
February 10, 2009
Tonight's Show Suggestions
At the Fremont Abbey Arts Center tonight, Karl Blau, Jason Webley and Led To Sea will play a special show. It begins at 8 p.m., and costs $7-$10. From what I understand, the bands will be onstage together in sort of a round robin fashion, if the information on Seattle DIY is to be believ ... More >>
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February 4, 2009
Laura Gibson
Tuesday, February 10
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November 26, 2008
The Decemberists
Sunday, November 30
Blogs
October 15, 2008
Mmmmm. Delicious Show Suggestions
Sunday, November 30
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October 15, 2008
The Builders and the Butchers
Wednesday, October 15
Blogs
August 21, 2008
Last Night: Builders and the Butchers at Sunset Tavern
Wednesday, October 15
Blogs
May 22, 2008
Sasquatch I Heard This: Rogue Wave
Wednesday, October 15
Blogs
March 4, 2008
Live Music Tonight: Gutter Twins, British Sea Power, and More
Wednesday, October 15
Blogs
February 28, 2008
Colin Meloy Vs. My Computer
Wednesday, October 15
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February 27, 2008
The Builders and the Butchers
Wednesday, October 15
Blogs
January 30, 2008
Live Music Tonight: Decemberists, Nada Surf
Wednesday, October 15
Calendar
January 30, 2008
The Decemberists
Wednesday, January 30
Blogs
September 12, 2007
Indie Rock Resort
Wednesday, January 30
Blogs
August 21, 2007
Mmmmmm Drop!
Wednesday, January 30
Music
May 30, 2007
Pearl Jam's Fan Herder May Be Used, But He's a 10
Meet the man in charge of the fan club for Seattle's biggest band.
Blogs
April 13, 2007
Unsexyback
Meet the man in charge of the fan club for Seattle's biggest band.
Music
January 10, 2007
Moonlighting
After surviving an inaugural tour with the Decemberists, Talkdemonic's Lisa Molinaro returns to her day job.
Blogs
November 17, 2006
Village Voice Trashes Decemberists
After surviving an inaugural tour with the Decemberists, Talkdemonic's Lisa Molinaro returns to her day job.
Music
November 15, 2006
Simple Key
The Decemberists' Colin Meloy ditches the verbal acrobatics in favor of narrative tradition.
Arts
August 30, 2006
Mr. 826
He's famous. He's deservedly acclaimed. And McSweeney's founder Dave Eggers has monkeys to punch—all for a good cause, of course.
Music
January 18, 2006
Weekly notable shows
He's famous. He's deservedly acclaimed. And McSweeney's founder Dave Eggers has monkeys to punch—all for a good cause, of course.
Music
January 11, 2006
Weekly Notable Shows
He's famous. He's deservedly acclaimed. And McSweeney's founder Dave Eggers has monkeys to punch—all for a good cause, of course.
Arts
September 14, 2005
Pop Music Favorites and Calendar
He's famous. He's deservedly acclaimed. And McSweeney's founder Dave Eggers has monkeys to punch—all for a good cause, of course.
Music
May 25, 2005
New Romantics
He's famous. He's deservedly acclaimed. And McSweeney's founder Dave Eggers has monkeys to punch—all for a good cause, of course.
Music
March 16, 2005
Castaways and Cutouts
Seattle Weekly plays Jukebox Jury with Colin Meloy of the Decemberists.
Music
November 5, 2003
CD Reviews
Seattle Weekly plays Jukebox Jury with Colin Meloy of the Decemberists.
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