The Decemberists: new album March 24 (free MP3 inside)

[rowjimmy]

Shame that the premier is tonight...
LOST preempts all other things.

That said the album is great. I cannot wait until my LP gets here.

[shoreline99]

The band will premiere the music of Hazards in its entirety, and play music from the rest of its repertory, as part of NPR Music's official South by Southwest showcase. The show will be streamed and broadcast live from Stubb's Bar-B-Q in Austin, Tex., and archived online afterward, starting at 11 p.m. ET on Wed., March 18. (The Decemberists will take the stage at 1 a.m. ET, after opening acts The Avett Brothers and The Heartless Bastards.)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101397853

[rowjimmy]

The band will premiere the music of Hazards in its entirety, and play music from the rest of its repertory, as part of NPR Music's official South by Southwest showcase. The show will be streamed and broadcast live from Stubb's Bar-B-Q in Austin, Tex., and archived online afterward, starting at 11 p.m. ET on Wed., March 18. (The Decemberists will take the stage at 1 a.m. ET, after opening acts The Avett Brothers and The Heartless Bastards.)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101397853

I'll wait for the podcast...

[mattstick]

I wish I was hardcore enough to stay up past 2am to listen to this.

[rowjimmy]

I wish I was hardcore enough to stay up past 2am to listen to this.

Indeed.
I'd have to stay up all night though, as I get up @ 4:30 for work.

[mattstick]

Some days I get up at 5am and run before work, most days it's 6.

4:30am is hardcore.

[tet]

damn, well i'll wait for the podcast too i guess.

but the album is fan-fuckin-tastic!!  i just keep listening to it, sorta like i did with Crane Wife when that came out...  their albums are just masterpieces, and i am SUPER stoked that i have such amazing seats @ Radio City for them!!!

[rowjimmy]

damn, well i'll wait for the podcast too i guess.

but the album is fan-fuckin-tastic!!  i just keep listening to it, sorta like i did with Crane Wife when that came out...  their albums are just masterpieces, and i am SUPER stoked that i have such amazing seats @ Radio City for them!!!

Stoked for you, dude.

I agree, this album is as easy to obsess over as their previous ones.
Honestly, Crane Wife was in everyday rotation for a long while but since then their entire catalog has spun up into equal rotation. I figure that I'm not going more than a day or two, tops, without spinning one of their albums on my turntable or my ipod.

Which reminds me, not only did I preorder Hazards of Love on vinyl, I ordered "Picaresque" on vinyl as well. When that package arrives I'll have all of the albums (including the combo LP with The Tain & Five Songs) and the Bridesmaid series on vinyl.

[mattstick]

I am stoked for Decemberists @ Bonnaroo.

I doubt it will happen but if they gave them a late-night Saturday night set it would be awesome.

[nab]

Kind of a crappy little photo, but I'll be seeing them here at the end of May:





This was taken at the back of the balcony, the place seats like 1100 tops.  Full bar available too.

[rowjimmy]

I keep forgetting that I saw, and taped them @ Vegoose in 2005.
I need to dig that up and relisten/reseed it.

edit:
It's on the archive.. duh.
http://www.archive.org/details/decemberists2005-10-29.flac16
taper is listed as spoogles.. his rig > my recorder. We taped a shit-ton together that weekend.

[mattstick]

Kind of a crappy little photo, but I'll be seeing them here at the end of May:





This was taken at the back of the balcony, the place seats like 1100 tops.  Full bar available too.

I saw them in Brussels, Belgium in '06 in a building that held 500 people.  It was so intimate and I was so drunk that Colin was eavesdropping on my conversation with a buddy.  Almost nobody attending the show spoke English either.

[shoreline99]

Can't wait for Radio City either. My seats are like 4 rows away from Tet, so at least we'll get a meetup

I'll be waiting for the podcast in the morning as well..

[nab]

Kind of a crappy little photo, but I'll be seeing them here at the end of May:





This was taken at the back of the balcony, the place seats like 1100 tops.  Full bar available too.

I saw them in Brussels, Belgium in '06 in a building that held 500 people.  It was so intimate and I was so drunk that Colin was eavesdropping on my conversation with a buddy.  Almost nobody attending the show spoke English either.

Nice.  I can't wait.

Last time they were here Colin busted out some Tarkio songs solo acoustic for the hometown crowd.  I sure hope he does that again.  

[mopper_smurf]

Kind of a crappy little photo, but I'll be seeing them here at the end of May:





This was taken at the back of the balcony, the place seats like 1100 tops.  Full bar available too.

I saw them in Brussels, Belgium in '06 in a building that held 500 people.  It was so intimate and I was so drunk that Colin was eavesdropping on my conversation with a buddy.  Almost nobody attending the show spoke English either.

They have two languages in Belgium: Flemish (which is lot like Dutch, slightly different) and French. They don't get along very well. O, and a small part of the population speaks German, but nobody cares about them.