Posts Tagged ‘the decemberists’

Some lyrics are like poetry. But when songwriters tire of writing songs, they often turn to genuine poetry, novels, plays and other more concrete forms of literature to express what they cannot with a backing band. Stripping away all the fabric of music, audiences are left with simple yet intimate black and white musings on [...]

Music and literature are just two different ways of telling stories. So it makes sense that many musicians have translated books into song, from Bob Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited,” which retells Abraham’s moral dilemma over killing his son in Genesis, to Death Cab for Cutie’s “Meet Me on the Equinox,” which recounts Bella’s lip-biting dilemma [...]

Vitamin String Quartet will release an album of Decemberists covers this coming March. The track list for this album is as follows:

Down By the Water
O Valencia!
Sixteen Military Wives
HereI Dreamt I Was an Architect
The Rake’s Song
This is Why We Fight
The Mariner’s Revenge Song

In honor of these seven songs, we give you seven facts about The Decemberists.
1.The [...]

While the common practice is for new artists to cover old ones, I find it much more interesting when it’s the other way around. In fact, there are a lot of old crooners that are doing contemporary cover albums lately, look at Johnny Cash’s last few records before he died. Here’s a list of some [...]