Buzzgrinder — With The Hazards of Love, The Decemberists are back with a seventeen-song monster of an album. Frontman Colin Meloy originally wrote it as a rock opera of sorts based on a fairy tale of his own devising. The band even considered performing it as a s... more info

VH1 News — Lollapalooza has yet to announce its remaining headliners, but rumor has it, the Killers and Tool will take the last two top slots. more info

Chorus.fm — Colin Meloy (*The Decemberists (http://www.myspace.com/thedecemberists)*) has called for (http://twitter.com/colinmeloy) a mass "e-Mooning" of Pitchfork. more info

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MTV.com News — Gigs from Kanye West, Jane's Addiction, Metallica and more were highlights of our week in Austin.By James Montgomery Perez Hilton, Kid Cudi, Victoria Hesketh and Kanye West at SXSW 2009 Photo: Rahav Segev/WireImage How does one summarize r... more info

The Mix Tape Podcast — The Decemberists’ The Hazards of Love doesn’t care if you don’t like opera. Daunting to start this multi-arced epic story, it very quickly rewards with such usual trademarks as harpsichord and frontman Colin Meloy’s cry... more info

The Mix Tape Podcast — The Hazards Of Love 4 (The Drowned) - The Decemberists / YSIRead Our WORD 100 Album Review Here... more info

MTV.com News — Lou Reed also rumored to be playing the Chicago festival.By Gil Kaufman The Killers' Brandon Flowers Photo: John Shearer/ WireImage The longer Lollapalooza organizers wait to unveil the lineup for this year's festival, the more people will... more info

The Mix Tape Podcast — And so returns our sunday round-up of the past week's best music news and audio ramblings...Gorillaz set to debut documentary Bananaz in New York’s Apple Store SoHo…Despite outlasting HMV and other retailers, all Virgin Megastores to clo... more info

Chicago Sun-Times, IL — ROCK | The Decemberists, "The Hazards of Love" (Capitol) Ask Colin Meloy about the reference points for the fifth album by his Portland, Ore.-based chamber-pop band and he'll cite a host of obscure folk-rock inspirations from the '60s (among them N... more info