Subject: Death Cab for Cutie

• Kurt Cobain: Far From Forgotten

  Director A.J. Schnack will be releasing his new documentary Kurt Cobain: About A Son in early October. The film will consist of scenic footage from the Washington cities Aberdeen, Olympia and Seattle (where Cobain lived), along with audio recordings done from a series of interviews conducted by journalist Michael Azerrad. The film score was co-written by Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie and the soundtrack is scheduled to be released Sept. 11. The film will be coming to the Los Angeles Nuart Th

  July 26, 2007

• Five Songs for the New Year

  Here's another roundup from our pal Jeff Shaw: Ah, the New Year. Time of transformation, time of bubbly-spawned magic, time of awkward passes and resolutions you mean at the time. While you're preparing for the long sled ride down Hangover Hill, here's some topical listening material. 5. Death Cab for Cutie, "The New Year" "So this is the New Year ... and I don't feel any different." Who among us cannot identify with these sentiments? The ennui associated with arbitrary calendar-flippage? We'v

  December 28, 2007

• Roger Waters at Coachella!

  Seriously. Playing Dark Side of the Moon, according to the LA Times. Also: Death Cab, Breeders, M.I.A., Love & Rockets (woo-hoo!), Cafe Tacuba, Kraftwerk, Raconteurs....you'll know more when we do, but you can probably hit up the Coachella website and find out sooner....

  January 21, 2008

• Coachella lineup announced

  Via Coachella.com: FRIDAY, APRIL 25: Jack Johnson, The Verve, Raconteurs, The Breeders, Fatboy Slim, Tegan and Sara, Madness, The Swell Season, The National, Animal Collective, Slightly Stoopid, Mum, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Stars, Battles, Aesop Rock, Midnight Juggernauts, Does it Offend you, Yeah?, Minus the Bear, Spank Rock, dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip, Diplo, Adam Freeland, Santo Gold, Jens Lekman, John Butler Trio, Vampire Weekend, Dan Deacon, Architecture in Helsinki, Sandra Col

  January 22, 2008

• A Bloggy Valentine: 20 Songs About Love

  By Jeff Shaw at our sister paper, Citypages. Love is a many-splendored thing and all, but it's also dependent upon a relationship's context -- and so is the associated music. You don't want Al Green's "Let's Get Married" to stream through the car speakers during your third date, you don't want your intended to think you stopped listening to new records after "I Love You Just The Way You Are" was released. . .aaaand you don't want "You Oughtta Know" to come on, well, ever. Swapping out these em

  February 14, 2008

• Last Night: What Made Milwaukee Famous @ The Glass House

  What Made Milwaukee Famous, Ra Ra Riot, The Little Ones @ The Glass House on 5/16 Usually, walking into a venue to find it almost empty is a bit of a downer. I guess most people train themselves to believe that a concert is not worth going to unless it’s in a room full of people sweating all over them as they text their friends about what a great time they’re having. But last night at the Glass House, I got an opportunity to watch a handful of bands that might not be packing the house in Po

  May 17, 2008

• Lets Get Physical

  November 20, 2003

• Walk Away

  Weekly art director Ben Froehlich was a real-life rock star once
  

  July 13, 2006

• Teen Drama Soundtrack Recap: Week of Nov. 17

  Radio is dead. MTV, as you have no doubt heard by now, doesn't play music videos anymore. The best bet for bands these days is to get their song played on a TV show or commercial, as crass as that might sound—just ask Sia, whose "Breathe Me" became a hit after appearing in the series finale of "Six Feet Under," or any number of artists (Caesars, Feist, The Ting Tings) anointed with the career bump that comes from appearing in an iPod commercial. Doug Wallen recently wrote in the Weekly about

  November 19, 2008

• The Cure, The Killers, Death Cab for Cutie Announced for KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas

  It's radio station concert day! Apparently! KROQ has announced their lineup for day two (Dec. 14) of Almost Acoustic Christmas at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, and it is predictably pretty great: The Cure, The Killers, Death Cab for Cutie, Paramore, Franz Ferdinand (!), Scott Weiland, Snow Patrol and Vampire Weekend. In the spirit of "one of these things is not like the other things," I choose you, Scott Weiland! Stone Temple Pilots are already playing day one; I guess if you mana

  November 20, 2008

• Musical Advent Calendar: The Long Winters, 'Christmas With You Is The Best'

  I know it's a sore spot for many of you that lived 'round these parts while it was on the air, but not everything that had to do with "The O.C." was that bad. There was their many volumes of compilation CDs, for instance, which, if you can get past the murky ickiness of a TV show dictating to people what cool hip young kids should like, did a lot of good work exposing some great bands to wider audiences.One of those bands was Seattle pop heroes The Long Winters; Barsuk records labelmates with De

  December 10, 2008

• Musical Advent Calendar: Death Cab for Cutie, 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)'

  At this point, who hasn't covered the Phil Spector co-written classic "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)"? Mariah Carey sang it on her 1994 Merry Christmas album, U2 on the 1987 Christmas compilation A Very Special Christmas. Original singer Darlene Love performs the tune every year on "The Late Show with David Letterman;" even Smash Mouth has their own, no doubt terrible, version.But my favorite version is from 2004's Maybe This Christmas Tree--check out the awesome cover by Shag up in the corn

  December 12, 2008

• More Favorite Things!

  In this week's Weekly, I blab about some of my favorite things in music this year. Since my ego clearly cannot be contained to just a half page on a newspaper, I've got even more favorite things here (as referenced at the end of the article--that's what we call "convergence" in the biz).

  December 18, 2008

• Cold War Kids, Matt Costa to Tour with Death Cab for Cutie

  Death Cab for Cutie--led by the newly slimmed down (and engaged to Zooey Deschanel) Ben Gibbard--are going back on tour this spring in support of last year's Narrow Stairs, and they're getting help from two acts from 'round here; Long Beach-based Cold War Kids and Huntington Beach singer/songwriter Matt Costa.Cold War Kids are taking the first leg of the tour along with Syracuse's much-buzzed about Ra Ra Riot, with Matt Costa picking up CWK's slack in May for the final five dates (because the ge

  January 27, 2009

• [Locals Only] Moostache

  January 29, 2009

• [CD Review] Headlights, 'Remixes' (Polyvinyl)

  December 25, 2008

• Hotter Than the Temperature at Coachella? Black Lips, Animal Collective, Duffy and 43 More

  April 17, 2008

• Caws for Celebration: Nada Surf Are Better Than Ever

  March 20, 2008

• The Cobain of His Existence

  About a Son’s Director Portrays the Late Nirvana Front Man Through Other People’s Music

  September 27, 2007

• CD Review

  Various Artists, Kurt Cobain: About a Son (Barsuk)
  

  September 6, 2007

• Real, Real, Real OC

  November 17, 2005

• Locals Only

  Breath of Life

  January 18, 2007

• Sabbath Was the Blob

  Get Out! Nightlife and more: Nov. 30 - Dec. 7
  

  November 30, 2006

• Snootisms

  The Velvet Teen

  November 2, 2006

• Hits!

  May 18, 2006

• Live Review

  April 6, 2006

• Locals Only

  March 23, 2006

• This Week in Red Hot Rockers

  February 16, 2006

• Commie Girl

  December 15, 2005

• All Mixed Up

  November 17, 2005

• Border Story

  November 10, 2005

• Wanted: The Next Interpol

  November 3, 2005

• Bionic Records

  September 22, 2005

• Scourging: the Only Word

  The week in nightlife and more: Sept. 1 - Sept. 8

  September 1, 2005

• Fingerprints

  June 23, 2005

• Lord Have Mercy

  March 17, 2005

• Smushed!

  February 24, 2005

• Awe Yeah!

  February 17, 2005

• Out of the Light We Begin

  January 13, 2005

• Debasered

  This monkeys gone to Coachella

  May 6, 2004

• Green No More

  February 19, 2004

• Tuning in, turning on

  January 15, 2004

• Death Cab For Cutie

  October 16, 2003

• Walking the plank

  October 18, 2001

• New Music

  August 30, 2001

• Freebird!

  August 9, 2001

• Army Navy

  June 18, 2009

• Talk Talk: Justin Kennedy of Army Navy (Part 2)

  Travis SchneiderOur talk with Army Navy's Justin Kennedy was lengthy enough to (hopefully!) justify two separate blog posts--last time we talked about the LA band's return to Orange County and the acts that helped shape their refined pop sound, this time we talk about their excellent self-titled debut record, their appealingly wacky videos and Kennedy's musical past with Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie megafame.Army Navy play tonight at the Yost Theater in downtown Santa Ana, headlining at 10

  June 25, 2009

• Last Night: Death Cab for Cutie, Tegan and Sara, the New Pornographers at the Hollywood Bowl

  Just watch the fireworks.Last Night: Death Cab for Cutie, Tegan and Sara and the New Pornographers at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles; July 5, 2009.Better than: Staying home and celebrating the Fifth of July, the sacred holiday commemorating the cloning of Dolly the Sheep in 1996.Minor celebrity spotting: Former Saturday Night Live cast member Horatio Sanz. He's skinny now, y'know.I first saw Death Cab for Cutie in 2003 at the second location of the now-defunct Nita's Hideaway in my hometown o

  July 6, 2009

• [Sound Guy] Jessica Dobson's Connections Run Deep. Plus News From Local Natives and Jeffree Star

  September 17, 2009