Remember when The Decemberists launched a contest to animate their green-screen video for O Valencia!? It led to a little controversy and one of the greatest episodes of The Colbert Report ever aired.

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A few weeks back we told you about the Decemberists' new video for "O Valencia", directed by Aaron Stewart, the same gentleman behind the band's award-winning video for "16 Military Wives".

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Leave it to the conservative right to connive its way into the winner's circle once again! While the Decemberists' Chris Funk did indeed shred valiantly on tonight's episode of "The Colbert Report" (even if he did look a little more like a Von Trapp than a rawk titan), he was no  …

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Colbert and The Decemberists Face Off on Wednesday

Well, it's taken about 14 months of being on the air, but someone has finally mustered the gravitas to challenge Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report to a showdown - and it's happening next week.

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LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!!! December 20, people. It's goin' down. Last night on "The Colbert Report", history was made as Stephen Colbert accepted the Decemberists' challenge to a guitar solo duel.

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THIS JUST IN, straight from the desk of the Decemberists: Stephen Colbert, IT'S ON. In an exclusive e-mail to Pitchfork, Decemberists ringleader Colin Meloy revealed that he and merry bandmates aren't going to take this Colbert business sitting down.

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Stephen Colbert took a swipe at our favorite Japanese-folk-tale-loving indie proggers when he premiered a new segment called "Who's Riding My Coattails Now?" on last night's "Colbert Report".

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"The way this works is you pay your money and we entertain you," Colin Meloy explained to the crowd, two songs into the Decemberists' set. "We are your dancing monkeys.

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So apparently Sony has a music store. It's called Connect and is very annoying to use. But if you wade through the confusion, download the Connect software, and pay four dollars, a brand new, exclusive Decemberists digital EP can be yours.

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Among indie bands, the Decemberists weren't the most obvious candidates to build a large following.

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Music Review: The Decemberists - The Crane Wife

The Decemberists' new release, and first on a major label, The Crane Wife, holds some personal significance to me. This is my first "third generation" album, if you will. By that, I mean this is a second new release from an artist I already followed.

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For a few years now, the Decemberists' stagey, hyperliterate folk-rock has played well at indie labels Hush and Kill Rock Stars.

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