Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Meanwhile, on April 7, 2011, the band released a music video for their song "This Is Why We Fight". Directed by Aaron Stewart-Ahn, the video depicts a band of teenagers living in a bleak, post-apocalyptic society. Disgusted with the tyrannical rule of their "king", one boy and one girl lead a splinter group away from the camp.
The King Is Dead is the sixth studio album by The Decemberists, released on Capitol Records on January 14, 2011. [1] Described as the "most pastoral, rustic record they've ever made" by Douglas Wolk of Rolling Stone, [4] the album reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart for the week ending February 5, 2011. [5]
We All Raise Our Voices to the Air (Live Songs 04.11–08.11) Released: March 13, 2012; Label: Capitol; 78 5 22 20 146 21 Live Home Library, Vol 1: August 11, 2009, Royal Oak Music Theatre: Released: December 4, 2020; Label: YABB — [D] — — — — — "—" denotes a title that did not chart, or was not released in that territory.
The Decembrist Revolt (Russian: Восстание декабристов, romanized: Vosstaniye dekabristov, lit. 'Uprising of the Decembrists') was a failed coup d'état led by liberal military and political dissidents against the Russian Empire.
[2] Some viewed the concert segment favorably, [3] [5] though others noted that the first half dragged [1] or that the "awkward" and "disappointing" performance was "not, by far, the Decemberists’ best." [2] The music videos, however, were mostly praised. CMJ New Music Monthly criticized the poor-quality editing of the DVD. [1]
We All Raise Our Voices to the Air (Live Songs 04.11–08.11) is a 2012 live album by the folk rock band The Decemberists. The album was recorded during the 2011 Popes of Pendarvia World Tour to promote the album The King Is Dead at venues across the United States. The album was released as a double Compact Disc and a triple vinyl LP set.
Long Live the King is an EP by the American indie rock band The Decemberists, released on November 1, 2011, on Capitol. The release is composed of out-takes from their sixth studio album, The King Is Dead. The titles of both combine to create the traditional proclamation, "The king is dead, long live the king!"
Colin Patrick Henry Meloy (born October 5, 1974) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and author best known as the frontman of the Portland, Oregon, indie folk rock band the Decemberists. In addition to vocals, he performs with an acoustic guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar , electric guitar, bouzouki , harmonica and percussion instruments.