Who’s your Paddy? It's Mr. Moloney leading a bunch of Yanks including Bon Iver and The Decemberists through a celebration of the Emerald Isle.

Grammy-winning duo The Civil Wars perform songs from their critically-acclaimed debut album Barton Hollow, cover Portishead and Kingdom Come from The Hunger Games soundtrack on the latest episode of Unplugged. The Civil Wars’ episode of Unplugged airs this Saturday on Palladia at 9AM ET. Friday, May 11 [All Times ET] M. Ward on David Letterman [CBS 11:35PM] Roger Daltrey on Jimmy Kimmel [ABC Midnight] Big K.R.I.T. on Jimmy Fallon [NBC 12:35AM] Thee Oh Sees on Carson Daly [NBC 1:35AM] Saturday, May 12 The Decemberists on Austin City Limits [PBS] The Civil Wars on Unplugged ...

Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Not Waving But Drowning, The Decemberists Song: Pearl And The Beard - Sweetness [download here ] What's so good? Any band that puts a photograph of a three-person sweater (three head holes, six arms, one sweater!) on their album cover is alright by me. The fact that Brooklyn-based band Pearl And The Beard puts out a brand of folk-inflected, sunshiney, introspective indie rock makes them all the more excellent. Tracks are laced with three-part vocal harmonies, as Jocelyn Mackenzie, Emily Hope Price, and Jeremy Price take the lead in turn. From raucous, foot-stomping jams ...

Ieri si è riso e scherzato su Hunger Games, prendendo (più o meno) amichevolmente in giro la trama nel post Hunger Gays . Oggi invece si fa sul serio. O quasi… Hunger Games (USA 2012) Titolo originale : The Hunger Games Regia : Gary Ross Cast : Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Stanley Tucci, Wes Bentley, Willow Shields, Lenny Kravitz, Amandla Stenberg, Alexander Ludwig, Paula Malcomson, Toby Jones, Isabelle Fuhrman, Jacqueline Emerson, Philip Troy Linger, Donald Sutherland Genere : giochi senza frontiere Se ti piace guarda anche : Battle Royale, Atto di forza, Tron: Legacy,  Il domani che verrà - The Tomorrow ...

You can’t talk about Sara Watkins without dropping some big names. The former Nickel Creek member produced her first, self-titled 2009 album with Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones. She’s spent the years between now and then as a touring fiddler and backing singer for the Decemberists, as performer and occasional guest host for “Prairie Home Companion” and continuing the foundations of the Watkins Family Hour at L.A. mainstay Largo with her brother and Nickel Creek cohort Sean. http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/immaculate-noise

Jacob Gosfield returns after an unexplained absence to bring us music from The Shins, The Great Lake Swimmers, Dirty Three, Yppah and the Decemberists Live. Read all responses to this article

Influential Pacific Northwest jam/roots group Calobo will reunite for three shows later this year. The group toured the country for 10 years in the early days of the jamband scene but parted ways in 2001. Though the band’s lineup shifted a bit over time, the reunion will...

Larry Heath caught up with Portland's Blitzen Trapper backstage at the recent Bluesfest in Byron Bay to chat Portlandia , their Australian tour, today's Record Store Day release, catching up with Dawes and much more... How you feeling? Good, not too bad! How did the Sydney show go the other night? I heard really good things about it... It was good. It was really fun. It was a good stage and the crowd seemed more animated then Melbourne. It’s that vibe where they like it but cross their arms and they’re like 'we’re not going to ...

LA’s Sci-Fi Romance describe themselves as an alt-folk band and have a new album, The Ghost of John Henry due out on May 8th. Their music has attracted the moniker ‘steam folk’ and they have been compared with the Decemberists and Nick Cave, but there are nods to punk and even metal in the mix [...]

Carrie Brownstein, frontwoman of Wild Flag (pictured) and Sleater-Kinney, has signed a deal to write her memoir. She’s also working on a book to tie in with Portlandia, the sketch comedy show she co-created and co-stars in with David Armisen, called Portlandia: A Guide For Visitors. In other indie rock literary news, Colin Meloy of The Decemberists has just published Under Wildwood, the second in his trilogy of young adult novels that also happen to be set in Portland. ...

We get a lot of records sent to us here at The A.V. Club . Fortunately, we end up liking some of them. In Playlisted , we share our latest recommendations. Album: My Head Is An Animal by Of Monsters And Men (out now on Universal) Press play if you like: Fire">Arcade Fire, The Delgados, The Decemberists, panoramic folk-pop Some background: Originally founded as a duo by songwriters Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir and Ragnar Þórhallsson, Iceland’s Of Monsters And Men quickly expanded to a sextet as its homeland popularity grew. A polished folk-pop gem, the group’s debut, My ...

Adam Ant (pictured) is basically what happens when a character from a song by The Decemberists comes to life in the wrong century. His forthcoming album is going to be called Adam Ant Is The Blueblack Hussar In Marrying The Gunner’s Daughter, but you can expect to hear a full set of classics like Stand And Deliver when he plays The Tivoli on Sunday Apr 8. Georgie Girl & Her Poussez Posse support. Tickets are $86.30+bf from Ticketek.

As previously announced, Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy has been using his downtime from the wordy Pacific Northwest band to put a few words down on paper. Now you can get a preview of his second novel.

*The Decemberists* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/thedecemberists) frontman Colin Meloy new book, Under Wildwood, is due September 25. The first three chapters are up on Time's website...

Back in 2010 ,  Decemberists  frontman Colin Meloy inked a three-book deal with  HarperCollins  for  Wildwood Chronicles , a young adult adventure series set in Portland, Oregon. The first novel,  Wildwood , was published in August 2011. Now,  TIME has confirmed that its followup,  Under Wildwood , is due September 25. Check out the first three chapters at TIME 's website .