We All Want Someone To Shout For — The Decemberists stopped by KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic to play a session. During it, they covered R.E.M.’s “Cuyahoga”, and an mp3 download of this performance has made it’s way out there. Fans of R.E.M. should be proud of this. [mp3]: ... more info

Twangville — READERS PICK: JANUARY 2011 Twangville readers recently picked The Decemberists‘ The King is Dead as their favorite album of January 2011. To record album number six The Decemberists shacked up in a remote barn outside of their Portland, OR base. Fo... more info

Altsounds — *The Decemberists* have announced a second leg of U.S. tour dates for the Spring, which will kick off April 16 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and cover the Midwest and South before reaching Atlanta, Georgia on May 2. The 14-date run will also incl... more info

Totally Fuzzy — lord jim said... dogs-more blind faith http://jimicaramail.blogspot.com/nd faith alan f said... Hi Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts Asian Dub Foundation - Keep Bangin' On The Walls (live) Spade Cooley - Swingin' The Devil's Dream all @320 than... more info

Chorus.fm — *The Decemberists (http://www.absolutepunk.net/thedecemberists)* extend (http://pitchfork.com/news/41481-the-decemberists-extend-tour/) their current tour. Dates are in the replies. Submitted by IceAge/HeatWave more info

melophobe — Sasquatch 2011’s line-up was announced earlier and I am 100 percent super excitably stoked that I am going to be living in Washington when it happens. As you can see from the poster above, on Memorial Day weekend bands such as Death Cab for Cutie, ... more info

melophobe — From kid’s shows to banned videos to slow-motion, this week offered some bizarre and cute, and sometimes bizarrely cute, videos from mainstream and independent artists alike. Dive into your eleven videos . . . NOW! Kid Cudi’s unofficial video ... more info

Altsounds — *The Decemberists* have earned the first-ever #1 chart position of their career with the impressive first-week showing of their widely acclaimed new album *The King Is Dead*, which was released by EMI's Capitol Records on January 18. The album sc... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Ralph Dodger said... The Underground Lovers were an Australian band who emerged during the shoegazer era. There was a cinematic feel to their songs, so it was no surprise when vocalist/guitarist Vincent Giarrusso later emerged as the director of the ... more info

Guardian Music — The England PJ Harvey paints isn't the green and pleasant idyll of popular imagination, but a dear and bruised and bedraggled thingA few weeks back, I interviewed Colin Meloy of the Decemberists for these pages. Sitting in his study in Oregon, we di... more info