{"id":3342,"date":"2011-03-30T14:52:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T20:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=3342"},"modified":"2011-03-31T09:03:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T15:03:19","slug":"decemberists-to-bring-unique-sound-to-campus-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=3342","title":{"rendered":"Decemberists to bring unique sound to campus event"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3343\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3343\" style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3343\" title=\"Decemberists2\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Decemberists2-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Press shot of The Decemberists\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9The Decemberists<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the most popular indie folk rock bands of the decade, The Decemberists, will perform at UCCS April 16.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh from the release of their sixth album, \u201cThe King Is Dead,\u201d the Portland, Ore. band will perform at 7 p.m. at the Gallogly Events Center. Tickets are $15 for UCCS students, $20 for other students and military members and $25 for the general public. Tickets are available at Tickets West or any King Soopers.<\/p>\n<p>Released in January, \u201cThe King Is Dead\u201d reached number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart on Feb. 5. The song, \u201cWhy We Fight,\u201d reached number 21 on the U.S. Alternative Songs Chart. Known for writing story-songs, often with an academic twist, the group is considered one of the most unique bands to emerge in the 2000s. The band formed in Portland and is led by Colin Meloy. Other members include Nate Query, Chris Funk and Jenny Conlin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is exciting to have a band of this caliber play UCCS,\u201d Mitch Karstens, student activities coordinator, Office of Student Life and Leadership, said. \u201cThey\u2019ve got a new album out and there\u2019s talk of them taking a break from recording \u2013 this may be one of the last chances to hear them perform live for a very long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To see a biography of the band, as published in <em>Rolling Stone, <\/em>visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/artists\/the-decemberists\/biography\">http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/artists\/the-decemberists\/biography<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The event is part of UCCS efforts to provide programming of interest to current UCCS students, Karstens said. The event will also likely attract high school students and students at other colleges to campus, a plus for recruitment efforts. Last year, Boulder-based 3OH!3 played for an inaugural event at Four Diamonds. That show was interrupted by a spring thunderstorm followed by hail and snow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year, we\u2019re indoors in our first major event at Gallogly,\u201d Karstens said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a great venue and a great show.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>One of the most popular indie folk rock bands of the decade, The Decemberists, will perform at UCCS April 16.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh from the release of their sixth album, \u201cThe King Is Dead,\u201d the Portland, Ore. band will perform at 7 p.m. at the Gallogly Events Center. Tickets are $15 for UCCS students, $20 for other students and military members and $25 for the general public.  <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=3342\" title=\"Decemberists to bring unique sound to campus event\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-events","category-upcoming-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Decemberists2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-RU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3361,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions\/3361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}