Thanks to Karl Clifton-Soderstrom for this. Funny how this recent Decemberists song sounds like an old classic from REM:
The full story in Boing Boing is here.
Thanks to Randy Rendfeld for this: The NPR interview with Colin Meloy of Portland band, the Decemberists, and their new album, The King is Dead (available as of 1/18/2011) may be heard here at the NPR website. And here’s Calamity Song, a nifty homage to Reckoning-era REM on the new album: