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Lost Songs: In Listvyanka
A Siberian reverie
Sep 18
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Colin Meloy
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LA Solo Shows in December
Come down to the burial ground; two nights at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Sep 16
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Colin Meloy
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Songs Before Astoria
My warmup livestream from a few weeks ago, for you paid subscribers
Sep 9
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Colin Meloy
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A Dream
Love to San Francisco
Sep 3
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Colin Meloy
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From the Farm
Dig XX; more Astoria tix!
Aug 18
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Colin Meloy
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A July July! Tour Diary
Part 3: Rounding the bases to home
Jul 29
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Colin Meloy
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Demonstration Tapes
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Demonstration Tapes: Eli The Barrow Boy
Out from the water troughs and the barrow downs
May 13
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Colin Meloy
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Demonstration Tapes: One Engine
The one that (barely) got away
Mar 4
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Colin Meloy
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Demonstration Tapes: Acts of Men (aka A Beginning Song)
An early early draft
Dec 5, 2024
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Colin Meloy
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Demonstration Tapes: Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned)
From a garret in Provence
Sep 17, 2024
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Colin Meloy
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Other Peoples' Songs
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Other Peoples' Songs: Oh My Stars
Rest easy, Michael Hurley
Apr 15
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Colin Meloy
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Other Peoples' Songs Request Line: The Sun and the Rainfall
Returning to Depeche Mode
Oct 21, 2024
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Colin Meloy
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Other Peoples' Songs: Me and Magdalena
In which I take a crack at Ben Gibbard's Monkeesong
Jan 23, 2024
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Colin Meloy
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Other Peoples' Song Request Line: The Shins' "Those to Come"
Chutes Too Narrow is twenty!
Dec 5, 2023
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Colin Meloy
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Song Tutorials
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Song Tutorial: Eli the Barrow Boy
4 chords and a ghost
Jun 10
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Colin Meloy
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13:39
Song Tutorial: The Queen's Rebuke / The Crossing
Come all ye fuzz pedals
Jan 23
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Colin Meloy
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10:57
Song Tutorials: The Gymnast, High Above the Ground
It's been ever so, ever so gray
Nov 13, 2024
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Colin Meloy
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3:59
Tutorial: You'll Not Feel the Drowning (The Island Part 3)
Nylon strings and drowning things
May 16, 2023
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Colin Meloy
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The Reading Room
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The Reading Room Feb '25
stuff what i've been reading
Feb 12
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Colin Meloy
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The Reading Room September '24
The Machine Shop pivots to video
Sep 24, 2024
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Colin Meloy
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The Reading Room: April '23
On Kafkaesqueties
Apr 29, 2023
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Colin Meloy
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The Reading Room, March '23
Onward from the Pickwick Club
Mar 22, 2023
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Colin Meloy
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Lost Songs
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Lost Songs: In Listvyanka
A Siberian reverie
Sep 18
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Colin Meloy
62
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Lost Songs: Our Holidays
A sad little thing from the I'll Be Your Girl days
Jul 9, 2024
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Colin Meloy
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Lost Songs Preservation Project: Honest Dog
Sipping will not make you thinner
Jul 7, 2023
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Colin Meloy
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Lost Songs Preservation Project: Half A Mind
Yoinked from 2002
May 26, 2023
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Colin Meloy
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