Ben Gibbard’s double-duty shift is continuing into the new year. On Thursday, the bands he fronts — The Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie — announced that they have extended their co-headlining tour in the new year.
The two bands performed the albums they released in 2003 — Death Cab’s Transatlanticism and the Postal Service’s influential Give Up — on each tour date. They’ll do the same on the new dates.
The tour will commence on April 23 in Atlanta, before stopping in cities such as Nashville, Columbus, Pittsburgh, Toronto, Milwaukee,...
The two bands performed the albums they released in 2003 — Death Cab’s Transatlanticism and the Postal Service’s influential Give Up — on each tour date. They’ll do the same on the new dates.
The tour will commence on April 23 in Atlanta, before stopping in cities such as Nashville, Columbus, Pittsburgh, Toronto, Milwaukee,...
- 11/30/2023
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
Ben Gibbard is set to pull double duty on The Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie’s 2023 co-headlining tour. During the fall run, the groups will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their respective albums Give Up and Transatlanticism by performing them in full.
Marking the first live performances from The Postal Service in over a decade, the trek will kick off on September 5th in Washington, DC ahead of stops in Boston; New York City; Philadelphia; Seattle; and more. It will wrap in Los Angeles on October 17th.
Tickets for newly announced dates in Texas go on sale March 3rd via Ticketmaster. The rest of the tour’s tickets are currently available to purchase via Stubhub — where your order is 100% guaranteed through Stubhub’s FanProtect program.
Gibbard will be accompanied by Jimmy Tamborello and Jenny Lewis for The Postal Service performances, with Nick Harmer, Dave Depper, Zac Rae, and...
Marking the first live performances from The Postal Service in over a decade, the trek will kick off on September 5th in Washington, DC ahead of stops in Boston; New York City; Philadelphia; Seattle; and more. It will wrap in Los Angeles on October 17th.
Tickets for newly announced dates in Texas go on sale March 3rd via Ticketmaster. The rest of the tour’s tickets are currently available to purchase via Stubhub — where your order is 100% guaranteed through Stubhub’s FanProtect program.
Gibbard will be accompanied by Jimmy Tamborello and Jenny Lewis for The Postal Service performances, with Nick Harmer, Dave Depper, Zac Rae, and...
- 2/25/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
Death Cab for Cutie unveiled a gauzy new torch song, “I Dreamt We Spoke Again,” from their upcoming album Thank You for Today, out August 17th via Atlantic.
The track is built around shuffling drums, an undulating guitar line and somber synth strokes that warble beneath Ben Gibbard’s soft, longing croon. “I dreamt we spoke again,” he sings, “It’d been so long/ My mind filled in the blanks/ I dreamt we spoke again/ It’d been so long/ Your voice was like a ghost.”
“I Dreamt We Spoke...
The track is built around shuffling drums, an undulating guitar line and somber synth strokes that warble beneath Ben Gibbard’s soft, longing croon. “I dreamt we spoke again,” he sings, “It’d been so long/ My mind filled in the blanks/ I dreamt we spoke again/ It’d been so long/ Your voice was like a ghost.”
“I Dreamt We Spoke...
- 7/19/2018
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
It's the end of an era for Death Cab for Cutie. Founding guitarist Chris Walla announced on Wednesday that he'll be leaving the alternative rock band after 17 years, in a statement released to Seattle-based music blog Slog. His last concert with the group will take place at Victoria, BC's Rifflandia Festival on September 13. You can find the full text of Walla's statement below, and further down a response from his Death Cab bandmates Ben Gibbard, Nick Harmer and Jason McGerr: "Short version: I’m leaving Death Cab for Cutie. My last show with the band will be September 13, 2014, at the Rifflandia Festival in Victoria, BC. I hope you guys can make it. Longer version: I think I long for the unknown. It might be that simple. I will miss being a quarter of this band, and will support whatever course Death Cab for Cutie chooses from here. I am profoundly grateful to Ben,...
- 8/14/2014
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
So this is the new era of Death Cab for Cutie. Guitarist Chris Walla, one of the founding members of the alt-rock band, is leaving the group after 17 years. Frontman Ben Gibbard, bassist Nick Harmer and drummer Jason McGerr announced Walla's departure today on their website. "We've had an incredible 17 years of making music with Chris," they said in a statement. "We are very proud of what we've accomplished together, including our 8th studio album which we have just put the finishing touches on. We will miss Chris and wish him all the best in the next chapter of his career. We are excited about sharing new music, and seeing all of you very soon." Lest this leave...
- 8/14/2014
- E! Online
In part two of our 'Seattle Sonics' series, the band takes us to their Sip & Ship 'nerve center' and American Music shop.
By James Montgomery
Death Cab for Cutie's Chris Walla and Jason McGerr
Photo: MTV News
Seattle — Chris Walla is a bit of a multitasker: That much is clear just by his rather prodigious output as a producer, solo musician and full-time member of Death Cab for Cutie. So it should probably come as no surprise that, for MTV News' second edition of "Seattle Sonics," Walla decided to take us to one of his favorite spots in Seatown: Sip & Ship, the kind of place that defines multitasking.
See, S&S is the sort of place that seemingly only exists in Seattle: A communal, cozy combination shipping depot/coffee bar that also happens to be a gift shop. Oh, and they make a mean grilled cheese, too.
Located in the...
By James Montgomery
Death Cab for Cutie's Chris Walla and Jason McGerr
Photo: MTV News
Seattle — Chris Walla is a bit of a multitasker: That much is clear just by his rather prodigious output as a producer, solo musician and full-time member of Death Cab for Cutie. So it should probably come as no surprise that, for MTV News' second edition of "Seattle Sonics," Walla decided to take us to one of his favorite spots in Seatown: Sip & Ship, the kind of place that defines multitasking.
See, S&S is the sort of place that seemingly only exists in Seattle: A communal, cozy combination shipping depot/coffee bar that also happens to be a gift shop. Oh, and they make a mean grilled cheese, too.
Located in the...
- 6/1/2011
- MTV Music News
New album sees frontman Ben Gibbard getting happy while feeling more alone than ever, in Bigger Than the Sound.
By James Montgomery
Death Cab For Cutie's <i>Codes and Keys</i>
Photo: Atlantic Records
"Some boys don't know how to love," Ben Gibbard sings on Death Cab for Cutie's new Codes and Keys album, perhaps unaware of the fact that he's just summed up the band's entire career in the process.
Of course, the object of that love — self, location, family, girls — has never really been as important as the sentiment itself. Death Cab truly are at their best when they're at their lowest, their most lost, be it on songs like "Styrofoam Plates" and "405" or albums like Transatlanticism and Narrow Stairs. They are, for all intents and purposes, a band that seems incapable of solving the eternal quandaries of the heart.
So what, then, will fans make of Keys, an...
By James Montgomery
Death Cab For Cutie's <i>Codes and Keys</i>
Photo: Atlantic Records
"Some boys don't know how to love," Ben Gibbard sings on Death Cab for Cutie's new Codes and Keys album, perhaps unaware of the fact that he's just summed up the band's entire career in the process.
Of course, the object of that love — self, location, family, girls — has never really been as important as the sentiment itself. Death Cab truly are at their best when they're at their lowest, their most lost, be it on songs like "Styrofoam Plates" and "405" or albums like Transatlanticism and Narrow Stairs. They are, for all intents and purposes, a band that seems incapable of solving the eternal quandaries of the heart.
So what, then, will fans make of Keys, an...
- 5/18/2011
- MTV Music News
Dcfc played first show in nearly two years on Wednesday, a surprise club gig in front of a raucous hometown crowd.
By James Montgomery
Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard (file)
Photo: Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images
Seattle — On their upcoming album, Death Cab for Cutie long to go home, even if they're not quite sure where home is anymore. Codes and Keys is practically propelled by that paradox — home may be four walls and a bed, it may be the space between our two ears or it may be neither. After all, we carry so much of ourselves with us at all times that one could reasonably argue that we are always at home, even when we're on the road. But, then, the band wonders, if we're so connected, why do we so often feel nothing of the sort?
The answer they seem to come up with over the...
By James Montgomery
Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard (file)
Photo: Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images
Seattle — On their upcoming album, Death Cab for Cutie long to go home, even if they're not quite sure where home is anymore. Codes and Keys is practically propelled by that paradox — home may be four walls and a bed, it may be the space between our two ears or it may be neither. After all, we carry so much of ourselves with us at all times that one could reasonably argue that we are always at home, even when we're on the road. But, then, the band wonders, if we're so connected, why do we so often feel nothing of the sort?
The answer they seem to come up with over the...
- 5/12/2011
- MTV Music News
'It's the project this year for us,' drummer Jason McGerr tells MTV News.
By James Montgomery
Chris Walla and Jason McGerr of Death Cab for Cutie
Photo: MTV News
When we spoke to Death Cab for Cutie at rehearsals for the 2009 mtvU Woodie Awards, they brought us up to speed on the progress of their new album, which may or may not sound a whole lot like Wilco and was still very much in its infancy.
So when we caught up with them at rehearsals for another awards show (the 2010 Critics' Choice Awards, where they paid tribute to the late John Hughes with a performance of "Don't You (Forget About Me)" from "The Breakfast Club"), we decided to ask them for a new progress report on the album. And it sounds like the album is still very much in the early stages.
Oh, and in keeping with the circular nature of things,...
By James Montgomery
Chris Walla and Jason McGerr of Death Cab for Cutie
Photo: MTV News
When we spoke to Death Cab for Cutie at rehearsals for the 2009 mtvU Woodie Awards, they brought us up to speed on the progress of their new album, which may or may not sound a whole lot like Wilco and was still very much in its infancy.
So when we caught up with them at rehearsals for another awards show (the 2010 Critics' Choice Awards, where they paid tribute to the late John Hughes with a performance of "Don't You (Forget About Me)" from "The Breakfast Club"), we decided to ask them for a new progress report on the album. And it sounds like the album is still very much in the early stages.
Oh, and in keeping with the circular nature of things,...
- 1/20/2010
- MTV Music News
Amy Poehler and John Krasinski remember his iconic films, while Death Cab for Cutie perform 'Don't You (Forget About Me).'
By Jocelyn Vena
Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard performs at the 2010 Critics' Choice Awards in Hollywood on Friday
Photo: Kevin Winter/ Getty Images
John Krasinski and Amy Poehler joined forces with Death Cab for Cutie to pay tribute to late director John Hughes at the on Friday night (January 15).
Krasinski and Poehler, dressed as "Pretty in Pink" best friends Duckie and Andie, recalled what made Hughes such a legendary and unique director. Poehler wore Andie's homemade pink prom dress, while Krasinski donned Duckie's famous fedora and blazer.
"To call anyone the voice of a generation sounds overblown and cliché," Poehler said. "It's hard to think of a filmmaker who made so many movies so many of us know by heart."
Recalling the memorable lines from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off,...
By Jocelyn Vena
Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard performs at the 2010 Critics' Choice Awards in Hollywood on Friday
Photo: Kevin Winter/ Getty Images
John Krasinski and Amy Poehler joined forces with Death Cab for Cutie to pay tribute to late director John Hughes at the on Friday night (January 15).
Krasinski and Poehler, dressed as "Pretty in Pink" best friends Duckie and Andie, recalled what made Hughes such a legendary and unique director. Poehler wore Andie's homemade pink prom dress, while Krasinski donned Duckie's famous fedora and blazer.
"To call anyone the voice of a generation sounds overblown and cliché," Poehler said. "It's hard to think of a filmmaker who made so many movies so many of us know by heart."
Recalling the memorable lines from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off,...
- 1/15/2010
- MTV Movie News
Band will perform Simple Minds' 'Don't You (Forget About Me)' in honor of the late director.
By Kyle Anderson, with reporting by Matt Elias
Death Cab For Cutie's Chris Walla and Jason McGerr
Photo: MTV News
The Critics' Choice Movie Awards — which air live Friday (January 15) on VH1 at 9 p.m. — will celebrate some of the biggest and most acclaimed films of 2009, including "Avatar," "The Hurt Locker," "Precious" and "Up in the Air." But expect the evening's most heartfelt moment to come in celebration of an absent member of the Hollywood community, as the show will pay tribute to John Hughes, who died last year at the age of 59.
The director of such modern classics as "The Breakfast Club," "Sixteen Candles" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" will get a salute on the show care of Death Cab for Cutie, who will perform Simple Minds' "Don't You...
By Kyle Anderson, with reporting by Matt Elias
Death Cab For Cutie's Chris Walla and Jason McGerr
Photo: MTV News
The Critics' Choice Movie Awards — which air live Friday (January 15) on VH1 at 9 p.m. — will celebrate some of the biggest and most acclaimed films of 2009, including "Avatar," "The Hurt Locker," "Precious" and "Up in the Air." But expect the evening's most heartfelt moment to come in celebration of an absent member of the Hollywood community, as the show will pay tribute to John Hughes, who died last year at the age of 59.
The director of such modern classics as "The Breakfast Club," "Sixteen Candles" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" will get a salute on the show care of Death Cab for Cutie, who will perform Simple Minds' "Don't You...
- 1/15/2010
- MTV Movie News
'We wrote and recorded the song and turned it in, and you hoped the people deemed it worthy,' said frontman Ben Gibbard of their 'New Moon' track.
By James Montgomery
Death Cab For Cutie
Photo: Ben Ritter
Death Cab for Cutie's "Meet Me on the Equinox" wasn't the most likely choice for the first single off the "New Moon" soundtrack, but in a lot of ways, it was the best choice. Seems they know a thing or two about the central themes of the whole "Twilight" series: love and loss. They've sort of made a career out of documenting both.
"I think everyone was looking for that next big series after 'Harry Potter,' and that's when I first started hearing about the 'Twilight' series," Dcfc bassist Nick Harmer said. "And at first, I was drawn to the books because of the vampires and werewolves, but...
By James Montgomery
Death Cab For Cutie
Photo: Ben Ritter
Death Cab for Cutie's "Meet Me on the Equinox" wasn't the most likely choice for the first single off the "New Moon" soundtrack, but in a lot of ways, it was the best choice. Seems they know a thing or two about the central themes of the whole "Twilight" series: love and loss. They've sort of made a career out of documenting both.
"I think everyone was looking for that next big series after 'Harry Potter,' and that's when I first started hearing about the 'Twilight' series," Dcfc bassist Nick Harmer said. "And at first, I was drawn to the books because of the vampires and werewolves, but...
- 10/15/2009
- MTV Music News
"The Insider" has the updated list of the 51st Annual Grammy Award winners as they come in! See the winners names below underlined. For recordings released during the Eligibility Year: October 1, 2007 through September 30, 2008: Record Of The Year -Chasing Pavements/Adele -Viva La Vida/Coldplay -Bleeding Love/Leona Lewis -Paper Planes/M.I.A -Please Read The Letter/Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Album Of The Year -Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends/Coldplay -Tha Carter III/Lil Wayne -Year Of The Gentleman/Ne-Yo -Raising Sand/Robert Plant & Alison Krauss -In Rainbows/Radiohead Song Of The Year -American Boy/William Adams, Keith Harris, Josh Lopez, Caleb Speir, John Stephens, Estelle Swaray & Kanye West, songwriters (Estelle) -Chasing Pavements/Adele Adkins & Eg White, songwriters (Adele) -I'm Yours/Jason Mraz, songwriter (Jason Mraz) -Love Song/Sara Bareilles, songwriter (Sara Bareilles) -Viva La Vida/Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion & Chris Martin,...
- 2/9/2009
- by TheInsider
- TheInsider.com
Today, I'm feeling a little cranky and just want to turn the volume up to 11 and rock out a little so I'm looking at Best Rock Song. Here are the nominees (You know the drill by now. The award goes to the songwriter. The artist's name is in parentheses): "Girls In Their Summer Clothes," Bruce Springsteen, songwriter (Bruce Springsteen) "House Of Cards," Colin Greenwood, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Philip Selway & Thom Yorke, songwriters (Radiohead) "I Will Possess Your Heart," Benjamin Gibbard, Nicholas Harmer, Jason McGerr & Christopher Walla, songwriters (Death Cab For Cutie) "Sex On Fire," Caleb Followill, Jared...
- 1/29/2009
- by Melinda Newman
- Hitfix
"Tha Carter III"? Not even close. Try "Tha Carter VIII."
New Orleans rapper Lil Wayne, who is on track to have the best-selling album of 2008, also leads the nominations for the 51st annual Grammy Awards with eight, including album of the year for "Tha Carter III."
Right on his heels is British rock quartet Coldplay with seven, including album of the year. The band's "Viva la Vida" was released a week after "Tha Carter," and the two controlled the top two spots of the Billboard 200 for five weeks in the summer.
Jay-z and Kanye West grabbed six noms each, as did Ne-Yo, including album of the year for "Year of the Gentleman."
"When I was putting (the album) together, I was trying to do something that more people would enjoy besides my pop and R&B core," Ne-Yo said. "I wanted to do something the whole world could enjoy."
The...
New Orleans rapper Lil Wayne, who is on track to have the best-selling album of 2008, also leads the nominations for the 51st annual Grammy Awards with eight, including album of the year for "Tha Carter III."
Right on his heels is British rock quartet Coldplay with seven, including album of the year. The band's "Viva la Vida" was released a week after "Tha Carter," and the two controlled the top two spots of the Billboard 200 for five weeks in the summer.
Jay-z and Kanye West grabbed six noms each, as did Ne-Yo, including album of the year for "Year of the Gentleman."
"When I was putting (the album) together, I was trying to do something that more people would enjoy besides my pop and R&B core," Ne-Yo said. "I wanted to do something the whole world could enjoy."
The...
- 12/3/2008
- by By Ann Donahue, Billboard
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Watch Death Cab for Cutie sing their song “I Will Possess Your Heart” in this 52 Bands 52 Weeks promo clip from MTV. Death Cab for Cutie released their new album, Narrow Stairs, on May 12. The album was the first to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart for Death Cab for Cutie members Ben Gibbard, Chris Walla, Nicholas Harmer and Jason McGerr. For the remainder of June, Death Cab for Cutie is playing a [...]...
- 6/17/2008
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
Death Cab For Cutie multi-instrumentalist and producer Chris Walla sounded the alarm just after New Year's: In one interview, he described Narrow Stairs as a "total curve ball" and a "really polarizing record" that's "got some teeth." To drive the message home, the band designated the eight-minute "I Will Possess Your Heart" as the album's first single, albeit in truncated radio-ready form. But change is always relative. For a generally fey band like Death Cab, a darker, more abrasive approach has produced simply its most rock 'n' roll album to date. "Bixby Canyon Bridge" opens the album in typical Death Cab fashion, with a ghostly guitar and Ben Gibbard's voice. Bass and a second guitar come in intermittently, and a hi-hat ticks quietly. But when drummer Jason McGerr comes down hard on his toms, the...
- 5/13/2008
- by Kyle Ryan
- avclub.com
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