Unlike most things, Death Cab for Cutie is better with strings attached. Let me explain. After collaborating with the Magik*Magik Orchestra — a string octet from San Francisco — on 2011’s Codes and Keys, Death Cab decided that some of their older...

Hyper-literate folk darlings The Decemberists are closing out a banner year with a new EP, Long Live The King. The past eleven months have seen The Decemberists run a gamut of musical and personal triumph. Together, they released a Billboard Top 200 and...

DeKALB | Peter Olson's dad didn't appreciate his son's records. The assistant director of the NIU Art Museum and curator of Tuesday's "Listening to the Sounds that Inspired the Graphics" event, Olson said he had to explain to his father why he was filling...