As obsessive as I am about music, there are only a handful of bands that I feel I must patronize by actually buying their physical albums, or to another extreme, own everything they have ever put out. I felt very fortunate to come across The Decemberists on the recommendation of a friend a few years ago, and I have since gobbled up any release I could get my hands on.

You can imagine my excitement when I heard that Colin Meloy, (songwriter and lead singer/guitarist of the group) would be doing a solo tour stopping at the Fillmore in San Francisco next week. Colin has also released an excellent Tour EP that commits the shows experience to disc. He keeps the songs extremely tight and the dialogue with the audience extremely loose (his signature, I once saw his entire band eaten by a giant whale at the Warfield… long story). Think of it as Jack Daniels:VH1 Storytellers.

Pitchfork.tv just posted a video of Colin playing “We Both Go Down Together”, a lover’s lament with Romeo and Juliet-like themes that, of course, ends with a double suicide. Luckily its beauty detracts from the subject matter enough to not depress the listener to the same extent. Check it out here.