Emmy the Great to support The Decemberists
On Thursday 19th December, Emmy the Great is set to support one of the past decade’s most supremely wonderous bands, the Decemberists at The Coronet, Elephant and Castle.Apparently tickets are all but...
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Brian’s Mixtape #31: All at Sea
This week Brian’s been completely and utterly unaffected by the volcanic ash cloud. He’s not even been subject to a light dusting, the lucky bird. He has, however, been following the news with avid...
View ArticleThe Folk Artist Twitter Directory
Below is our attempt at a comprehensive directory of folk artists currently on Twitter – of course, we aren’t Twitter deities and as such will almost certainly have missed out on certain artists. Let...
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Album: The Decemberists – The King is Dead
The King is Dead heralds its arrival in triumphant form with harmonica sounding out over a marching rhythm before Colin Meloy’s voice decrees “the turning of the season”. ‘Don’t Carry It All’ is a...
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Live: Decemberists @ Hammersmith Apollo, 15/03/11
If you often feel that time passes too slowly and you’d like, more than anything, to hurry yourself towards death, you need to see The Decemberists live on as regular a basis as finance and geography...
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Album | The Decemberists – We All Raise Our Voices To The Air
It’s an odd thing, the live album. If you like a band enough to buy one you’ve probably heard most of the songs before, maybe you even own them, and with better recording quality at that. It’s usually...
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Brian’s Mixtape | Little April Showers
Well, dear friends. Once again I am far from punctual.As you will be aware, April has been a month of relentless rain. While I was good humoured enough at the start, burying myself away and providing...
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Album | The Chieftains – Voice of Ages
When marriages have lasted 50 years, it is traditional to receive presents of gold. For Irish trad-folkies the Chieftains, that particularly anniversary has brought a variety of even more glittering...
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Vinyl | Our top albums for analog.am
When sister site of the Yellow Bird Project, analog.am approached us and asked us if we’d like to pick our favourite albums for an FFS-themed vinyl shelf, it was a foregone conclusion.There is nothing...
View Article#132 The Decemberists – Sons & Daughters
You did know: Colin Meloy and his merry band of Decemberists chose Sons & Daughters to be the closing track to their 2006 album The Crane Wife.You didn’t know: Meloy denied right-wing US comedian...
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News | New Decemberists album, single, UK tour
Today is double auspicious, it turns out. There’s a new Decemberists album on the way and you can listen to the first song ‘Make You Better’ right now.The band’s seventh album, What a Terrible World,...
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Interview | The Decemberists’ Colin Meloy on the new record – and being...
If there is one thing that The Decemberists are bad at (and there might only be one thing), it’s keeping a low profile. For most of the time since releasing their last studio album – the US Billboard...
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Album | The Decemberists – What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World
The Decemberists might be pushed to beat their own mid-00s output, but this is a band that has stayed true to their roots and continue to make compelling folk music. Their new record comes exactly...
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