RSS Builder by B!Soft http://www.downtheoubliette.com/ Welcome to Down The Oubliette, a place for Okkervil River fans to find all manner of interesting items and information on the band. We have audio and video, tour dates and set lists, photos and concert reports, news, reviews and interviews and more. This site is not part of Okkervil River's official web site. It is meant to augment, and complement, Okkervil's official online presence, and to pick up postscript and preserve performances that might otherwise be lost as the band presses onward and upward. We intend Down The Oubliette to be a record, a repository and a resource. en-us Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:42:50 -0600 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/news/DTOnews.html DTO news video of Roky and Okkervil performing "Goodbye Sweet Dreams" in Austin last March.]]> Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:40:50 -0600 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/news/news.html OR News True Love Cast Out All Evil, has been made available on Pitchfork today. As mentioned previously, the album will be released in the U.S. on April 20. In Europe, including the U.K., the album will have to wait until June 7 to see its release (on the label Chemikal Underground).

The first review -- or, as the author prefers to describe it, series of impressions -- on the album has been put on-line at Austin 360.

Tour dates with Roky Erickson are beginning to be announced. See our Concerts page for listings in San Francisco and New York City.

]]> Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:21:21 -0600 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/news/news.html OR News Paste Magazine party. They will be performing at the Galaxy Room (outside) on Wednesday, March 17 from 4:30 to 5:00 p.m. ]]> Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:20:42 -0600 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/news/news.html OR News revealed.]]> Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:51:51 -0600 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/news/news.html OR News announcement about the long-awaited Roky Erickson/Okkervil River collaboration. True Love Cast Out All Evil, an album of previously unreleased Roky Erickson songs, will be released on Anti- Records on April 20. In addition to the entire band backing Roky up, Will acted as producer.]]> Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:38:14 -0600 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/shows/video/010710/newyork.html DTO News Videos from Terminal 5 are up, including the video of the cover of "Open The Door, Richard".]]> Sat, 9 Jan 2010 16:24:28 -0600 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/shows/audio/010710/newyork.html DTO News Terminal 5 are posted. Check back next week for the actual videos. ]]> Thu, 7 Jan 2010 06:48:49 -0600 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/donations/donate.html DTO News Austin City Limits poster designed by Mark Pedini. ]]> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:08:12 -0600 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/shows/video/091509/telaviv.htm DTO News three videos from Okkervil's show in Tel Aviv in September, one of which is a new song. Let's hope 2010 brings us more of these. Happy New Year everyone!]]> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:07:08 -0600 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/will/video/120309/brooklyn.html DTO News "The Chain" at the Bell House in Brooklyn.

Speaking of covers, we received a great suggestion from a fan in Germany to link the cover songs listed on the Facts page to their live performances.]]> Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:28:29 -0600 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/news/news.html OR News official online store.]]> Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:13:39 -0600 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/news/news.html OR News myspace page.]]> Tue, 3 Nov 2009 20:55:41 -0600 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/news/news.html OR News Tickets go on sale Friday, November 6 at noon EST.]]> Tue, 3 Nov 2009 20:54:28 -0600 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/news/news.html OR News Black Sheep Boy (Deluxe Edition) as a double lp. This is the first time you'll have the opportunity to hear songs from the Appendix in that format. ]]> Thu, 1 Oct 2009 10:02:25 -0500 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/news/news.html OR News http://www.amichai.com/live and click on the 88fm icon.]]> Thu, 1 Oct 2009 10:00:58 -0500 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/shows/2009.html DTO News Manchester and Nottingham shows are available in FLAC & MP3.]]> Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:50:33 -0500 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/news/news.html OR News Darla has exclusive rights to the US distribution. For those of you outside the US, the UK record store HMV currently offers the best price that we could find.]]> Sat, 5 Sep 2009 03:33:46 -0500 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/news/news.html OR News Thief And Rescue, to be released Monday, September 7. The album was produced by Okkervil producer Brian Beattie. You can hear the song, along with the rest of the album, on Barber's website.]]> Fri, 4 Sep 2009 21:11:33 -0500 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/shows/2009setlists.html#Manchester DTO News setlist of the autumn UK/Ireland tour is in. DTO takes this opportunity to reiterate our request that anyone going to these shows sends us whatever setlists, audio, or video they may have.]]> Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:01:52 -0500 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/shows/video/private08/crystalsnifters.html DTO News
To thank our readers for your support over these last two years, we've been saving this special video clip from the band "The Crystal Snifters" filmed on some mysterious day in 2008. Sight and sound may be familiar.]]> Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:54:18 -0500 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/articles/interviews.html DTO News Galway Advertiser
It's a good thing Nirvana was mentioned again or we'd be left wondering whether or not a comma was omitted (it was). August 20, 2009]]> Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:52:52 -0500 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/news/news.html OR News Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:09:44 -0500 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/news/news.html OR News Thu, 6 Aug 2009 19:02:27 -0500 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/shows/2009.html OR News Barby on September 15 in Tel Aviv, Israel.]]> Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:42:40 -0500 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/news/news.html OR News Morning Becomes Eclectic. If you can't listen at that time, the shows are archived on the radio station's website.]]> Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:02:18 -0500 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/shows/2009.html OR News Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in San Francisco, which runs October 2-4. Maybe "Omie Wise" should be brought out of retirement.]]> Sun, 24 May 2009 07:59:24 -0500 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/shows/2009.html DTO News first night and "You're Gonna Miss Me" and "Another Radio Song" from the second.]]> Fri, 22 May 2009 00:44:46 -0500 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/news/DTOnews.html DTO news feature they gave us in advance of the recent tour, they also presented show reports from both Brisbane and Perth. Even better, to us, is this fan report of the Brisbane show.]]> Wed, 20 May 2009 00:27:49 -0500 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/will/willshows.html OR News MusicfestNW. The festival runs September 16-19 at various venues across the city.]]> Mon, 18 May 2009 22:05:04 -0500 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/shows/2009.html OR News announced today. Okkervil will be opening for Iron and Wine for the Twilight Concert Series in Salt Lake City on August 20.]]> Sat, 16 May 2009 18:01:27 -0500 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/shows/2009.html DTO News
Over the last several weeks, we have been slowly fixing the broken links on DTO. If you discover more, please let us know!]]> Sat, 16 May 2009 17:55:44 -0500 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/news/news.html OR News Issue 31 is now available for pre-order from Amazon.com. Discover what otherworldly fantasy story in the tradition of Norse sagas Will conjures in this issue. He spoke about its writing process in a Pitchfork interview last fall. The publication should be available directly from The McSweeney's Store very soon.]]> Wed, 13 May 2009 07:29:03 -0500 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/shows/2009.html DTO News May 7th & May 8th.]]> Sun, 10 May 2009 17:40:21 -0500 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/news/news.html OR News Saturday Morning With Kim Hill on Saturday, May 16. The radio program is broadcast from 8:00 a.m. to noon Auckland, New Zealand time (May 15, 4:00 p.m. EDT).

]]> Wed, 6 May 2009 00:41:21 -0500 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/news/news.html OR News Austin City Limits, but our beloved band will finally be getting their turn to perform on this legendary program. Once we know the date, we'll post it.]]> Sat, 2 May 2009 17:02:39 -0500 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/posters/posters.html DTO News Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:06:33 -0500 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/news/news.html OR News Ottawa Bluesfest: Friday, July 10 at 7:15 p.m.]]> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:07:42 -0400 http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/events/okkervil-river-1219736/ OR News free concert this Friday, April 24 on the Hassayampa Lawn at Arizona State University.]]> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:28:23 -0400 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/news/news.html DTO News Hoboken ('04), Manchester ('05), London ('05), Castle Clinton ('06) and Tanned Tin Festival ('06).]]> Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:43:07 -0500 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/shows/audio/092407/burlington.html DTO News Higher Ground in Burlington, VT from 2007]]> Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:15:54 -0500 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/shows/audio/040205/austin.html DTO News Emo's in Austin, April 2005.]]> Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:09:08 -0400 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/shows/audio/042905/austin.html DTO News The Parish.]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:20:16 -0500 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/news/news.html OR News webcast by AT&T at 6:00 p.m. PDT. It will require downloading a plug-in so don't wait until the last minute to head on over there.]]> Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:10:25 -0400 http://www.inertia-music.com/catalogue/40773/Okkervil_River/Overboard_And_Down/?addtotrolley=LTID042 OR News Thu, 9 Apr 2009 08:10:02 -0500 OR News NPR tonight beginning at 8:15 p.m. EDT.]]> Wed, 8 Apr 2009 16:23:31 -0400 http://www.scdistribution.com/cat/scd_catalog.php?usersearch=okkervil&pagerequest=&label=Jagjaguwar OR News Pop Lie single is now available for purchase from Okkervil River's label, Jagjaguwar.

]]> Fri, 3 Apr 2009 20:45:15 -0500 OR News announced. Tickets are already on sale for most of the shows.]]> Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:22:07 -0500 DTO News Roky Erickson, Okkervil River's showcase, and Will Sheff's solo show.]]> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:40:44 -0400 OR News Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:51:52 -0400 http://www.electricpicnic.ie OR news Electric Picnic lands itself as Okkervil's eighth announced festival date of 2009. Okkervil will fall into this festival's lineup at some point between September 4 - 6. On the evening of September 7, the band will then find themselves in front of another Irish audience at Róisín Dubh in Galway. ]]> Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:07:37 -0400 http://www.winnipegfolkfestival.ca/wp/festival/performers/ OR News Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:28:53 -0400 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/shows/video/093008/neworleans.html DTO News Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:27:17 -0400 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/shows/video/030209/austin.html DTO News Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:25:08 -0400 http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=26682004&blogId=475532608 OR News Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:21:40 -0400 http://www.endoftheroadfestival.com/ OR News Fri, 6 Mar 2009 18:32:31 -0500 http://www.mergerecords.com/store/store_detail.php?catalog_id=601 OR News Score! 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers! was announced today. The song Okkervil chose to cover is East River Pipe's "All You Little Suckers." They are limiting the run to 7,500 copies, so you may want to pre-order. ]]> Mon, 2 Mar 2009 16:12:41 -0500 http://www.threadgills.com/showinfo.cfm?location=2&showid=1729&da=19&mo=3&ye=2009 Mon, 2 Mar 2009 13:17:45 -0500 http://www.stedwards.edu/market/calendar/events/2009/march.html OR News Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:45:10 -0500 http://www.threadgills.com/showinfo.cfm?location=2&showid=1729&da=19&mo=3&ye=2009 OR News Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:42:07 -0500 http://www.vanderbilt.edu/ros/ OR News Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:37:52 -0500 http://www.austinbatcave.org/Home.html OR News Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:34:03 -0500 http://www.downtheoubliette.com/shows/audio/100406/columbia.html DTO News Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:24:30 -0500 http://somafm.com/articles/ti-okkervil.html DTO News