After we talk about music videos and launch our music video contest, rock band The Decemberists join us to perform live in WNYC's Greene Space. The Portland, Ore., groups’s latest album is truly ambitious: an hour-long, 17-track rock opera called The Hazards of Love. This story of star-crossed lovers and a shape-shifting beast is set to a score that recalls 1960s British folk-pop and bombastic '70s-style prog rock. Led by songwriter Colin Meloy, the quintet is joined today by vocalists Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond and Becky Stark of Lavender Diamond.

Watch video of today's performance.