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Concert PhotosPosted onJune 22, 2013January 12, 2015

PHOTOS: The Dread Crew of Oddwood @ NorCal Pirate Fest, 06.15.13, Vallejo, Calif.

I don’t want to oversimplify things, but any band with a headbanging bouzouki player is going to get a hearty thumbs up from me. (Bouzoukis,…

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MusicPosted onMay 21, 2013January 12, 2015

Racking Up Plays: “Nanobots” by They Might Be Giants

In short, “Nanobots” is everything that TMGB fans have come to expect from the band, which is still engineering insidiously catchy little songs out of pop melodies, heady topics and peculiar humor.

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MusicPosted onOctober 5, 2011January 12, 2015

The Annotated Decemberists No. 5: “I Don’t Mind”

It sure sounds to me like this verse describes an elderly, infirm woman being abandoned in the woods. It also seems reminiscent of a folk tale, though I can’t point to a specific example. Folklore is rife with descriptions of euthanasia and geronticide, however, as this academic review makes clear

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MusicPosted onSeptember 1, 2011January 12, 2015

Racking Up Plays: “Canajoharie” by They Might Be Giants

if you’re wondering whether the Johns still can still write a popular anthem for the unpopular crowd, look no further than this evolutionary epic off the band’s 15th album, Join Us.

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MusicPosted onFebruary 3, 2011January 12, 2015

Look, everybody! I got a comment from somebody who thinks I know something about William Butler Yeats, Greek mythology and The Decemberists

Hey, this Internet thing works after all. Someone out there in the inky void of cyberspace stumbled across my Decemberists Glossary and posted a comment…

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MusicPosted onJanuary 19, 2011January 12, 2015

Here it is, your handy dandy Decemberists glossary for “The King is Dead”

This has been a week for expanding the ol’ vocabulary, because I’ve been listening to the new album by The Decemberists on a constant loop—or…

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EventsPosted onJanuary 13, 2011January 12, 2015

Decemberists listening party at Philz Coffee in San Francisco gives fans chance to unite and converse using words like “parapet”

Anyone who knows me knows I am counting down the minutes to Tuesday, which is when The Decemberists will officially release The King is Dead,…

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