TAG: Decists

Jul13

Treasure Island Festival Lineup Announced

Oct 17th and 18th San Francisco plays host to some of the biggest names in electronic, dance and indie music at the third annual Treasure Island Music Festival. Unlike most other festivals, this one takes place on an idyllic island in the heart of SF bay.

Saturday, Oct 17th: MGMT, MSTRKRFT, Girl Talk, Brazilian Girls, The Streets, Passion Pit, LTJ Bukem feat. MC Conrad, DJ Kush, Federico Aubele, Dan Deacon, Murs, Crown City Rockers, The Limousines

Sunday, Oct 18th: The Flaming Lips, The Decists, Beirut, Grizzly Bear, Yo La Tengo, The Walkmen, Bob Mould, Thao with The Get Down Stay Down, Vetiver, Spiral Stairs, Sleeply Sun, Tommy Guerrero, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

Tickets go on-sale tomorrow here for a good deal for a 2-day pass at $99.99 and VIP tix, and regular tickets …

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Apr28

Waxploitation and MTV premiere Causes 2

Waxploitation teams up with MTV to premiere Causes 2, the second album in their benefit series for Darfur. The album will debut on MTV’s The Leak on Apr 28th, running until May 5th, a week before the official release date. Causes 2 features exclusive songs from the likes of Gnarls Barkley, Diplo, The Decists, LCD Soundsystem and My Morning Jacket.

The album will be prominently featured on MTV, mtvU, MTV.com, and Think.MTV.com, with hopes to enlighten and educate the masses about the ongoing crisis in Darfur. What’s especially great about their work is that 100% of the profits from the album go directly to Human Rights Watch, Doctors Without Borders, and Oxfam America.

You can hear the album here, or pre-order it here.

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Mar29

Decists, The (Review)

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Decists, The

Released by Kill Rock Stars


I want to like this band, but they annoy the shit out of me. Actually, let me rephrase that: They bore the shit out of me. They make me want to jab pencils into my eyeballs with their whiney carnival, Pacific Northwest bourgeois bohemian b.s.! But that's just me. OK, I admit I actually spent some real time listening to their current release The Crane Wife, and actually enjoyed the Jethro Tull moments, the castaway journey and even lead singer's Colin Meloy's nasally voice, but for non-fans this DVD ...

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Sep29

Decists, The – Crane Wife, The (Review)

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Crane Wife, The

Released by Capitol


The Decists, from Portland, Oregon, refuse easy categorization. In that way, their often throwback sound, fronted by singer-songwriter Colin Meloy, is really quite modern. Or, meta-modern, maybe. The Crane Wife is a Japanese folktale that inspires this album. It has so many standouts and, from beginning to end is impressive and large. Beating Sufjan Stevens by a narrow margin in the Longest Song Title category, 'The Island, Come and See, the Landlord's Daughter, You'll Not Feel the Drowning' is the group at its best'for ...

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