Tonight, as we all know due to the tons of press coverage and commercials and air time given to it, the Decemberists will face Colbert in a guitar solo showdown. Today I’ll bring to you as many of the articles and interesting blog posts as I can find about it. From the Oregonian: Colbert vs. [...]
Stephen Colbert in the Zeitgeist (12/11/2006)
December 11, 2006 By
“Truthiness” seems to be the word of the zeitgeist today, but there is some other mentions of Stephen around the web. Here’s your listing of Stephen Colbert in the Zeitgeist for Monday, December 11, 2006. Anno Colberticus – Truthiness In vino veritas – Philly.com: “This was Stephen Colbert’s year (and still is for a few [...]
Who’s riding Stephen’s coattails now? Incubus!
December 11, 2006 By
According to FMQB.com, Incubus is hopping on the coattails of the Decemberists (who, if you’ll recall hopped on the Colbert bandwagon) by hosting their own Green Screen Video Challenge. They are asking fans to help with the video for their new single “Dig.” The video footage has been shot, and Incubus is even offering a [...]
AP Article about the Colbert/Decemberists Challenge
December 5, 2006 By
From the Washington Post: Colbert and the Decemberists Square Off By JAKE COYLE The Associated Press Tuesday, December 5, 2006; 1:14 PM … On his show last week, Colbert claimed the Decemberists’ contest was a blatant copycat. “Green screen? Hmm, where I have heard that before?” said Colbert, who plays a confrontational political talk-show host [...]
More on the Decemberists
December 1, 2006 By
This just made me laugh because of the headline: The Decemberists Embroiled In Nasty Dork Feud With Stephen Colbert Thursday November 30, 2006 @ 06:30 PM By: ChartAttack.com Staff Television satirist Stephen Colbert has accused Portland, Oregon lit-rockers The Decemberists of stealing his idea, and now he’s enlisting “the Colbert nation” to help him exact [...]
Decemberists to Colbert – IT’S ON!
December 1, 2006 By
From the Pitchforkmedia.com blog: THIS JUST IN, straight from the desk of the Decemberists: Stephen Colbert, IT'S ON. In an exclusive e-mail to Pitchfork, Decemberists ringleader Colin Meloy and his merry bandmates revealed that they aren't going to take this Colbert business sitting down. In a particularly saucy move, our folk-prog monsterpiecers have issued not [...]