The Decemberists Premiere Perfectly Over-the-Top “The Hazards of Love” at SXSW
Three weeks before the Decemberists premiered their new album, The Hazards of Love, at SXSW, the band’s singer-songwriter Colin Meloy told me that they had not rehearsed the record in its entirety yet. In that interview, Meloy also marveled on how the Who used to perform all of their rock opera, Tommy, with just guitar, [...]
MTV.com News — Colin Meloy's newly expanded crew set the bar high on the first day of South by Southwest.By James Montgomery, with additional reporting by Christopher "CJ" Smith and Mat... more info
VH1 News — The Decemberists played an extraordinary opening-day set at South By Southwest, while Swedish trio Peter Bjorn and John practically gave up. more info
Guardian Music — Look at the band below: can you really imagine them doing swaggering cock-rock? Alexis Petridis triesThe relationship between American alt-rock and the British folk reviv... more info
Rolling Stone — Three weeks before the Decemberists premiered their new album, The Hazards of Love, at SXSW, the band’s singer-songwriter Colin Meloy told me that they had not rehearse... more info
guardian.co.ukDecemberists debut 'The Hazards of Love' at SXSWEntertainment WeeklySXSW '09 kicked off under sunny skies Wednesday as the music industry descended on Austi... more info
Altsounds — *The Decemberists* have launched their ambitious new album *The Hazards of Love* (Capitol Records) March 17th 2009 with a weeklong exclusive sale of the digital album... more info