I hate Oprah.*

She’s so sensationalist. It’s maddening. I couldn’t help but balk at the screen when a clip of her interview with James Frey showed up… He said that his girlfriend didn’t actually die, and she had this oh-so-disgusted look, which prompted the audience to gasp. It’s not that he […]

Touring 9 cities partly in support of his new EP, Colin Meloy Sings Trad. Arr. Shirley Collins, partly out of restlessness, Colin Meloy performed marvelously Saturday night in Los Angeles. Any fan of the Decemberists’ song-writing should be buying tickets for his future performances, if they haven’t got them already.

Laura Veirs opened the show sounding […]

Picture the scenario, you are cruising high above America, travelling the friendly skies, ensconsed in the world of packaged peanuts and subtly odd tasting soft drinks. You are enoying the inflight movie with your big yellow free headphones when you hear it. At first you think maybe it’s coming from the headphones, so you unjack […]

From Colin’s Solo performance last night in Seattle, mycarrion recorded this new song. Download it here. You can check out photos from the night’s performance on Flickr here. Also, at You Ain’t No Picasso, Matt’s hosting mp3s of Colin Meloy on KEXP yesterday as well, incase you missed it. Check that out here.

I’ll be seeing Colin […]

3 ½ hours of driving and we (Me and Walter) arrive at the Virgin Mega Store just in time to watch WAS start late for their performance. There is a good crowd there. I have to say only 1/10th of these people are here because they just happened to wonder into the store at the […]

Well, even before the first has been written there’s been a big shakeup in the Q&RCIPTTAOAG world. Rather than subscribing to the godless capitalist standards of single question single answer we here at Q&RCIPTTAOAG Headquarters (Q&RCIPTTAOAGHQ for short) have decided to do a ‘dual core’ strip. Each question will be answered by not one, not […]