Daily entertainment news covering Decemberists en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 http://www.starpulse.com/ http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/06/15/springsteen_and_phish_jam_together_at_bo Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:29:54 EST Entertainment News 126496@http://www.starpulse.com/news MANCHESTER, Tenn. (AP) - They were chanting "Bruuuuuce" at Bonnaroo all weekend, as Bruce Springsteen performed a three-hour set with the E Street Band one night and joined Phish on stage another.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/03/24/the_decemberists_release_the_hazards_of_ Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:00:00 EST Entertainment News 115298@http://www.starpulse.com/news On March 24th, Capitol Records will release The Decemberists’ The Hazards Of Love, the follow-up to the group's 2006 breakthrough, The Crane Wife, which NPR listeners voted their favorite album of the year.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/03/08/record_store_day_is_saturday_april_18 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 07:00:00 EST Entertainment News 112975@http://www.starpulse.com/news The organizers of Record Store Day have been happily overwhelmed by a steady flurry of support and activity from artists, record labels and retailers wishing to participate in the annual event

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/02/15/decemberists_announce_first_leg_of_sprin Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:00:00 EST Entertainment News 110458@http://www.starpulse.com/news The Decemberists have announced the first leg of their Spring 2009 North American tour in support of The Hazards of Love, their ambitious new album to be

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/02/03/bruce_springsteen_phish_head_lineup_for_ Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:22:15 EST Entertainment News 109554@http://www.starpulse.com/news NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Call him Bonnaroo Bruce. Bruce Springsteen, fresh off his Super Bowl halftime performance, has been announced as a headliner at this year's Bonnaroo Arts & Music Festival,

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/01/25/the_decemberists_to_release_the_hazards__24 Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:00:00 EST Entertainment News 108684@http://www.starpulse.com/news On March 24th, Capitol Records will release The Decemberists' The Hazards Of Love, the follow-up to the group's 2006 breakthrough, The Crane Wife, which NPR listeners voted their favorite album of the year.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/05/28/laura_veirs_with_liam_finn_at_the_earl_a_08 Wed, 28 May 2008 14:47:35 EST Entertainment News 88546@http://www.starpulse.com/news For the passerby, Seattle's Laura Veirs may have sounded like an old Suzanne Vega cd spinning inside The Earl…or maybe one of a number of 80s female singer/songwriters

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/04/04/return_of_the_70_s_singer_songwriter Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:01:51 EST Entertainment News 83324@http://www.starpulse.com/news Successful singer-songwriters have spanned across the decades, but no era saw them flourish like the 1970s. James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Dan Fogelberg, Carly Simon, Jackson Browne and Neil Young (to name a few) were tearing up the airwaves.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/09/18/wedding_proposal_gives_fire_struck_festi Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:08:16 EST Entertainment News 60402@http://www.starpulse.com/news The troubled Austin City Limits festival in Texas ended on a high note on Sunday - with an onstage marriage proposal and a stunning headlining set from Bob Dylan. The weekend event started badly when a fire broke out on the Zilker Park site on Friday, leaving four people injured, two critically.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/08/26/the_decemberists_the_long_and_short_of_i_28 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:00:00 EST Entertainment News 57391@http://www.starpulse.com/news The Decemberists are known for their riveting live performances and innovative tours (their last featured the band playing with orchestras in five major U.S. cities).

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/05/08/scissors_for_lefty_to_release_their_debu_12 Tue, 08 May 2007 21:00:00 EST Entertainment News 41520@http://www.starpulse.com/news Voted "best up-and-coming indie band" by SF Weekly, San Francisco's Scissors for Lefty has been setting off radars in both the US and UK, inciting NME to boast: "ambitious, sarcastic sophisto-pop; quirky, promising, and quite possible awesome."

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/05/06/land_of_talk_tour_dates_listen_to_speak Sun, 06 May 2007 09:00:00 EST Entertainment News 40123@http://www.starpulse.com/news Land of Talk will be touring with the Rosebuds starting May 28 after they return to North America from their UK takeover in May. If that weren't enough, on July 16, they will be supporting The Decemberists and Grizzly Bear at NYC's Central Park Summerstage.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/03/08/stars_to_pick_shortlist_music_prize_fina Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:47:12 EST Entertainment News 33133@http://www.starpulse.com/news Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody, KT Tunstall and the Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne have been invited to select the 10 albums that will compete for the 2007 Shortlist Music Prize. The celebrity panel must select from 61 nominated albums that have yet to sell more than 500,000 copies in the United States.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/02/14/bonnaroo_music_and_arts_festival_announc Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:38:17 EST Entertainment News 29691@http://www.starpulse.com/news Superfly Productions and A.C. Entertainment are proud to announce the initial lineup for the 2007 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. The sixth annual four-day camping and music festival will be held on June 14-17 on the same beautiful 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee, 60 miles south of Nashville.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/12/31/2006_year_in_music_pt_4 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:00:00 EST Entertainment News 24696@http://www.starpulse.com/news In October, Justin Hawkins, lead singer of The Darkness, announced that he's leaving the band because he can't live the rock 'n' roll lifestyle again after completing rehab... Weird Al Yankovic's White & Nerdy becomes the parody singer's first ever top-ten hit... and legendary NYC nightclub CBGB, where bands like the Ramones, Talking Heads and Blondie got their start, closed; Patti Smith was the final act...

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/12/19/stephen_colbert_battles_the_decemberists Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:05:55 EST Entertainment News 24224@http://www.starpulse.com/news The Nation will cheer for Stephen Colbert when he squares off against rock band The Decemberists in a "guitar shred-off" on "The Colbert Report" this Wednesday, December 20 at 11:30 p.m. ET/PT.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/11/03/music_for_america_partners_with_over_a_d Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:52:09 EST Entertainment News 20521@http://www.starpulse.com/news In an ongoing effort to inspire millions of young voters to participate in the electoral process, Music for America has partnered with over a dozen bands touring nationwide this fall - registering voters, discussing current issues and sparking peer-to-peer conversations around the issues that matter most to young people. The push is designed to turn young people out to vote on November 7 and get the newest generation of voters more involved in the electoral process.

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