Pitchfork — Photo by Nilina Mason-Campbell The Decemberists' new album, The Hazards of Love, is due out March 24 on Capitol, but SXSW attendees will get to hear the album played live in its entirety nearly a week earlier. On March 18, Colin Meloy and his me... more info

Stereogum — The new Marianne Faithfull -- her 22nd album in all, if you're counting -- will feature a number of guests, including Chan Marshall, Anthony Hegarty, Sean Lennon, Keith Richards, Teddy Thompson, and Rufus Wainwright. Pulling a late-period Johnny C... more info

Pasta Primavera — This new Decemberists album The Hazards Of Love (out March 24th) looks like it will be a good one.  They just put out the first single from in “The Rake’s Song” and it has some serious anger and intensity that I’m not used to hearing in... more info

Stereogum — The stream-a-day MySpace rollout of the Dessner brothers' Dark Was The Night charity compilation gets a bump today with a trio of tracks, courtesy of a cute little widget player and a smattering of heavy hitting contributors. There's the Decemberi... more info

Pitchfork — Stephen Colbert, that master of modern web integration, is at it once again. The blowhard's blowhard is calling out for fans to remix a recent interview with Stanford University Internet law professor Lawrence Lessig, in which the pair talked about t... more info

Stereogum — After all those Always The Bridesmaid singles collections, the more distorted, heavier, and, yes, slightly Billy Joe Armstrong-esque "The Rake's Song" suggested the Decemberists' new full-length The Hazards Of Live might be going in a ballsier d... more info

Paste Magazine — Given the (unbearable? delightful? unbearably delightful?) new depths of creepiness mined by "The Rake's Song" last week, perhaps you thought that the cover of The Decemberists' upcoming Hazards of Love LP would also be a wee bit discomfiting. Ma... more info

Pitchfork — The Hazards of Love, the forthcoming rock opera from Portland drama-nerds the Decemberists, already had a totally ridiculous-looking tracklist, and now it has an album cover, too. I have to applaud the band's judgement in not using a repulsively ugly... more info

My Old Kentucky — Happy Inauguration Day! So, I'm not sure many of you will be listening at Noon EST today, but just in case you are...Today is My Old Kentucky Blog Radio on SIRUS XMU! Channel 26 on SIRIUS & channel 43 on XM. Tune in at 12pm EST and again at Midnig... more info

Clickmusic — 'The Hazards Of Love' to be released on 24th March. more info