The Decemberists have today released their long awaited new album As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again via YABB Records (Thirty Tigers). As It Ever Was, So it Will Be Again is the band’s 9th studio ...

The Decemberists have released a new single, “Oh No!” The track, which appears on their forthcoming new album is chock full of The Decemberists most defining characteristics - vibrant storytelling, ...

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 & ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “It’s a theme I continually come back to.” He says. “That antipathy has always been interesting to me – marrying the idea of death ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Decemberists are more known for their songs about 19th century chimney sweeps than contemporary politics, but they're not ...

Something fantastic has happened to the Decemberists, and something horrible, too. The bad news first: in May of this year, founding member and keyboardist Jenny Conlee was diagnosed with breast ...

On a chilly winter night in New York, some 3,000 people have gathered to see The Decemberists play the second of three consecutive sold-out shows at the Beacon Theatre. The room blooms with flannel ...

Whether you know it or not, you've probably already seen a lot of the work of artist Carson Ellis. Ellis, who happens to be the wife of Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy, has drawn every Decemberists ...

Audio for this feature is no longer available. When we last left Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy, he'd steered his band and his songs to new levels of theater, creating the sprawling rock opera The ...

The Decemberists' gaming debut is on the way. On Oct. 4, the Portland band and indie game designer Keith Baker will launch the Kickstarter for "The Decemberists Present: Illimat," a historical card ...

Looks like the Decemberists will join Tom Waits as guests on an upcoming episode of "The Simpsons". Colin Meloy posted that amazing image you see above today on Twitter, seeming to confirm that the ...