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One sure sign that you're now a rock n' roll band of some siginificant size and importance is a private, label-paid jet with all the fixins the time-honored stop-gap and victory lap release that is the double-live album. Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and The Cure have all released double-live albums. Garth Brooks, too.

Later this year, The Decemberists will enter that hallowed pantheon with the release of We All Raise Our Voices to the Air (Live Songs 04.11-08.11). The double-album (triple-vinyl!), twenty song set includes performances of songs from throughout the band's catalog as performed on eleven dates during last year's Popes of Pendarvia Tour. In case you're curious, this includes the hometown dates last August at Edgefield. The release arrives March 13th via Capitol and that's the cover art up there, local photographer extroardinaire Jason Quigley (who's also shot a few our sessions in the past) having captured the band in the throes of performance ecstasy, Colin Meloy and likely either John Moen or Nate Query revealing their... soles in the process (sorry).

Here's what the band sounded like live early last year, running through the whole of The King is Dead in our studios.