Last month Death Cab For Cutie returned to the spotlight with "You Are A Tourist," the great first single and video from their forthcoming Codes And Keys. A sunny addition to our spring playlist, it…   Read Story »

Master thespian Ben Gibbard brought his Jack Kerouac-celebrating collaboration with Jay Farrar to Los Angeles on a busy Friday which had the pair (along with Death Cab resident beard Nick Harmer)…   Read Story »

NAME: The Long Winters PROGRESS REPORT: Recording their fourth full-length album at Electrokitty Recording, Bog Roll Studio, and Two Sticks Audio in Seattle. "It's been a pretty hilarious process,"…   Read Story »

Nowadays ex-Desaparecidos guitarist/Statistics frontman Denver Dalley's recording electro-acoustic music under the Intramural moniker. He and co-producer Sam Shacklock's longtime-in-the-making debut…   Read Story »

Won't be 'til next year, but brace yourself for a project being billed as a joke gone, well, right: Are You Still With Me?!, a tribute to Huey Lewis. Conceived over laughs in '04, the project's…   Read Story »

In what should be the last of the scraps of our trek to Manchester, TN this past weekend, we were psyched to share with ya a clip of what we (and a lot of you) thought was one of the fest's best…   Read Story »

It seems that, even in this enlightened age, music jocks and music nerds just can't get along. From Seattle Weekly (via Glenn):"In the music community, it's perceived as being a very negative thing,"…   Read Story »

Pitchfork was underwhelmed with the Chicago Bookeaters concert:Ben Gibbard closed out the night, but not before comedian/musician Fred Armisen made a surprise appearance as the Death Cab for Cutie…   Read Story »

Another vid from last night's Revenge Of The Bookeaters. Johnny charmed with amusing anecdotes (he cut his own hair earlier in the day!) and stripped down three lovely Long Winters songs. Here's one.…   Read Story »

If we donated $5,000, Bookeaters host John Hodgman promised the sold out Beacon crowd, Sufjan Stevens and David Byrne would perform together at the end of the night! Together for the first time!…   Read Story »