Ben Gibbard (with Aimee Mann) “Bigger Than Love” Rating: 3 stars (out of 5) Just two years ago, Death Cab For Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard appeared to have it all, living in wedded bliss with cute-as-a-button Hollywood “It” girl Zooey Deschanel and heading up a band with one Platinum-selling record and two that went Gold. [...]

Ben Gibbard Former Lives (Barsuk) Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars Benjamin Gibbard, lead singer and songwriter of Death Cab For Cutie, is one of those guys who can’t seem to let a year go by without getting involved in some sort of recording project. It’s a work ethic that is common among the early [...]

[Photo by Paige K. Parsons] Jordarn Kurland started Zeitgeist Artist Management in 1999, shortly after the Seattle band Death Cab For Cutie put out their first record Something About Airplanes on Barsuk. In 2003, Kurland signed Death Cab to his company and has also taken on groups like She & Him and New Pornographers. More recently, [...]

Jeffrey Lewis is a modest man. While bold-face names like Jarvis Cocker and Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard have sung his praises (Cocker calls him “the best lyricist working in the US today”), the indie-folk wordsmith and graphic artist isn’t letting it go to his head: “If somebody says that I’m one of their [...]

Frightened Rabbit and Death Cab for Cutie perform live in Grand Prairie, TX on August 13, 2001.

On May 31, veteran soul singer Stewart Francke will release Heartless World, an album that features special guests Bruce Springsteen and fellow Detroit rocker Mitch Ryder. When he was putting together the album, Francke was struck by a series of personal tragedies, which ultimately led him to cover Death Cab For Cutie’s “I’ll Follow You [...]

Death Cab For Cutie want to cheer you up.

“Writing is such a solitary act. You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It’s a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive act of writing with other self-destructive acts. I certainly was one of those people for a long time.” – Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie, addressing [...]

Your odds of seeing Bigfoot are roughly the same as having a bad time at this year’s Sasquatch! Festival, Washington’s annual celebration of all things indie rock. The lineup for the Memorial Day weekend event, which will be held May 27-30 at The Gorge in George, Washington, is topped by perennial festival faves Wilco, Modest [...]

After laying low for the last couple of years, the Goo Goo Dolls are back. The band, who’ve moved over nine million albums and recorded monster hits like “Iris” and “Slide,” once again stormed the Billboard Charts with their latest album, Something For The Rest Of Us, which debuted at #7. We talked to golden-haired [...]

Cover songs are like (a box of) chocolates — you never know what you’re gonna get, until you bite into one. Does the idea of Bon Iver covering Tom Petty’s Wildflower sleeper “Crawling Back To You” appeal to you? Then click on the video below (this version comes from Justin Vernon’s performance at Ohio’s MusicNow [...]

The NRDC Action Fund and Headcount are banding together to release the Best of Bonnaroo compilation to promote action on climate change. The album features 17 live Bonnoroo performances from artists such as Wilco, Dave Matthews Band, Jack Johnson and is available at www.musicforaction.org. Before downloading the music, fans are asked to email their senators, [...]