Even though he was one of the most important of America's Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin was conspicuously absent from Hamilton: An American Musical, the smash Broadway show about the life of ...

The Decemberists resurrected an unused set of Hamilton lyrics with “Ben Franklin’s Song,” the first installment of Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s monthly “Hamildrops” series. The triumphant, expletive-laced ...

Leave it to The Decemberists to make catchy folk music out of the vile stew of YouTube comments. The Portland-based band appeared on Jimmy Kimmel’s show Thursday night to perform a handful of eclectic ...

“The King Is Dead” is as close as the Decemberists will come to writing a Taylor Swift album. It marks a return to rootsy, American folk and rock for the Portland quintet, whose previous works swung ...

The Decemberists are a rock group with a strange demeanor. Their lyrics sound like they were written by an expert Scrabble player and their songs are often period pieces that suggest odd folk tales.

The Decemberists’ lyrics are perhaps best listened to with a dictionary in hand. The Portland, Ore., group, which performs Friday, May 1, at UC Berkeley’s Greek Theatre, has a well-deserved reputation ...

Only a band like Portland, Oregon’s The Decemberists would include a mention of a strong, northwesterly wind that blows over France and the Mediterranean as an integral lyrical element and title of ...