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Hear The First Single From New Decemberists Album Inspired By New Order And Roxy Music

3221 days ago

Stereogum — For their new album, the Decemberists are looking beyond bookish folk-rock. I'll Be Your Girl, their first LP since 2015's What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World, finds the indie veterans working with indie superproducer John Congleton for the... more info

Watch Members Of R.E.M., Sleater-Kinney, & More Play Benefit For Scott McCaughey

3232 days ago

Stereogum — Scott McCaughey, the frontman of the Minus 5 and longtime touring member of R.E.M., recently suffered a stroke while on tour with Alejandro Escovedo. And last night, an all-star lineup of musicians including Escovedo, R.E.M.'s Mike Mills and Peter Bu... more info

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Playlist: The Playlist: Black Thought Freestyles for 10 Minutes and 11 More New Songs

3253 days ago

New York Times — Hear the most notable new music out this week, from Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamildrops team-up with the Decemberists to a Thelonious Monk reissue. more info

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The Decemberists – “Ben Franklin’s Song”

3253 days ago

Chorus.fm — The Decemberists have released “Ben Franklin’s Song” on Spotify and Apple Music. The song puts an unused set of lyrics that Lin-Manuel Miranda originally wrote for Hamilton to music. A note from the band explaining the process can be found belo... more info

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Shorties (A New Zora Neale Hurston Novel, A Song by the Decemberists and Lin-Manuel Miranda, and more)

3254 days ago

LargeHeartedBoy — A new Zora Neale Hurston novel, Barracoon, will be published next year. Stream a new song by the Decemberists and Lin-Manuel Miranda. 60 year-end book lists were added to Largehearted Boyâ€™s master aggregation of â€œbest books of 2017â€�... more info

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The Decemberists & Lin-Manuel Miranda – “Ben Franklin’s Song”

3254 days ago

Stereogum — The Decemberists have put to music an unused set of lyrics that Lin-Manuel Miranda originally wrote for Hamilton. As the band explains in a post on their website, Miranda reached out to Colin Meloy to ask them to record a version of "Ben Franklin's S... more info

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U.S. Girls – “Blue Christmas” (Elvis Presley Cover)

3318 days ago

Stereogum — Tomorrow, Capitol Records is releasing Holidays Rule Volume 2, a sequel to the 2012 compilation that found the likes of the Shins and Andrew Bird covering seasonal classics. For the next installment, they've rounded up a new roster of artists includi... more info

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The Broadest Blue – “Run For My Life”

3361 days ago

Obscure Sound — With flourishes of Beirut’s orchestral-laden stirrings alongside a penchant for audible narratives, reminding of The Decemberists as well as Sufjan Stevens, The Broadest Blue produces on originally stimulating sound that brings a track’s lyrical ... more info

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Recap: Newport Folk Festival – Day 2

3365 days ago

We All Want Someone To Shout For — (Wilco) Following a successful first day of Newport Folk Festival we jumped right back to the Fort with a set from the indie super-group Offa Rex, the newly formed project of The Decemberists and English singer Olivia Chaney, who released their debut... more info

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