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Death Cab for Cutie Announce Tour Dates & Tease New Album for 2018

The full list of dates and teaser video are up on deathcabforcutie.com.

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Death Cab for Cutie Live at Travelers Rest

2018 Lineup – Travelers Rest Fest

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The Power Of Music, According To Death Cab's Ben Gibbard

The singer-songwriter also looks back on the zeitgeist moment of his band.

When Ben Gibbard set out to cover Teenage Fanclub’s entire “Bandwagonesque” album earlier this year, he started by hunting down the songs’ exact lyrics. The words aren’t in the album’s original liner notes, so he did what most of us would do: He went straight to Google.

“For someone who’s written a lot of lyrics, the internet is almost always wrong,” Gibbard told HuffPost.

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Ben Gibbard: Tiny Desk Concert

For this, the 250th Tiny Desk Concert, the Death Cab for Cutie and Postal Service singer performs solo and unadorned, with just an acoustic guitar to back him up.

In all, Gibbard's set makes a fine choice as the 250th Tiny Desk Concert we've published since the series was born nearly five years ago: For all the big, elaborate set-ups we've entertained in the NPR Music offices, it's always nice to return to the series' origins as a place for quiet singer-songwriters to do their thing unadorned, without getting drowned out by other sounds. Even minus a band at his back, Gibbard warrants the undivided attention.

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Deep cuts Death Cab for Cutie should perform

"What Sarah Said” (Plans, 2005) Generally speaking, there are two types of Death Cab for Cutie fans: Those who prefer 2003 concept album Transatlanticism and those who favor the band’s platinum-selling major label debut, Plans. The ninth song off the latter is a piano-heavy ballad that displays Ben Gibbard’s penchant for crafting clever lyrics. He sings, “Amongst the vending machines and year-old magazines in a place where we only say goodbye.” Who knew a waiting room could be so interesting?

Great song, but it's not a "deep cut" and they play it live a lot.

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Death Cab for Cutie on “The Photo Album”

In April of 2001, the members of Death Cab for Cutie should have been on top of the world.

"I know people who that's their favorite album of ours, and I would never try to convince anyone otherwise, but when I think of that in the context of our catalog, it's my second least favorite album," Gibbard concludes. "But making The Photo Album showed us what we didn't want to do ever again. I don't want to make a record because we have to make a record. I don't want to go into the studio with eight songs and try to cobble together two sort-of songs so we can make a 10-song album. I don't want to do that ever again. I want to go in with more songs than we need. I want us to have choices. So in that sense, it was very much a bridge, because we learned what we didn't want to do again."

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Classic Review: A Trip Back to ‘Transatlanticism’ | The Emory Wheel

Transatlanticism is essentially an album about the inescapable frailty of relationships, love and loss; much of the content is focused on the latter. “Title and Registration” mourns a faded love shoved back into the forefront of Gibbard’s mind by a picture hidden in the glove compartment, a “souvenir from better times.” The song acknowledges how such reminders can exorcise emotions that seemed long gone, as if they were never there.

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Ben Gibbard & Julien Baker - "Photobooth" in Chicago 1/20/17 - YouTube

Ben Gibbard and Julien Baker performing Death Cab For Cutie's "Photobooth" at Thalia Hall in Chicago on 1/20/17.

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Loudwire dared Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee to play a Hello Kitty piano recently. The singer did not back down from the challenge as you can find a video of her playing a cover of Death Cab For Cutie‘s song “I Will Follow You Into The Dark” on the said instrument below.

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Ben Gibbard Will Cover Teenage Fanclub’s ‘Bandwagonesque’

The Death Cab for Cutie frontman will release a limited-edition song-for-song remake of Teenage Fanclub's power pop gem.

“Bandwagonesque is my favorite record by my favorite band of all time,” Gibbard said in a press release. “It came along at a pivotal time in my musical life and I’ve loved it for over 25 years. It’s been such a blast taking these songs apart to see how they work and then putting them back together again.”

So cool!

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Watch Death Cab For Cutie’s new anti-Trump video

Today our friends Death Cab For Cutie released a new anti-Trump song, titled "Million Dollar Loan," and video directed by Simian Design. The song is the first in DCfC manager Jordan Kurland and author Dave Eggers's 30 Days, 30 Songs series featuring a single song from a different artist each day until the election. Later this week, look for tunes by Aimee Mann, Thao Nguyen, Bhi Bhiman, and REM.

Cool project. After watching this, go listen to Aimee Mann's song.

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"I remember a long time ago I always thought Death Cab for Cutie was kinda this broody, moody band, and live they just rocked, they kicked so much a**," Fraites remembers. "And I was like, 'Whoa, it's so cool how you can have this artifact that's immortalized in a recording, and then live give something human and not be this tense, uptight representation note-for-note of a song.'"

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Listen To The Red Sox Organist Jam Out To Death Cab’s ‘Soul Meets Body’

I'm sure Ben appreciated this despite it being the Red Sox.

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Ep. 13: Trade Rumor Mill With Jeff Passan and Ichiro's 3,000th Hit With Ben Gibbard by The Ringer MLB Show

How many rock stars are serious guests on sports shows?

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Death Cab For Cutie - Brothers on a Hotel Bed feat. Lauren Mayberry - Firefly Festival 2016 HD

I've watched this at least 50 times.

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North Carolina’s junior senator was among 20 members of Congress who agreed to make a playlist of their favorite songs on the music streaming service Spotify.

But Tillis also favors music more likely to be heard in a hip urban coffee shop than a GOP campaign event: Death Cab For Cutie’s “When Soul Meets Body,” Modest Mouse’s “Ocean Breathes Salty” and Spoon’s “Don’t You Evah.”

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Jason McGerr - Death Cab For Cutie Interview with CFOX