— Death Cab for Cutie is reimagining their latest album, Asphalt Meadows and giving us an acoustic version this March. The original version of their 10th studio album dropped this past September and we’ve been in love ever since. Now we get to experience it all over again on March 10th. Two tracks have already been released: the acoustic version of “Pepper” can be heard here and their cover of “The Plan”, by Low, can be heard here. On recording “The Plan”, frontman Ben Gibbard said, “I first saw Low in 1994 opening for Sunny Day Real Estate at the… Read more »
– Even during their busy schedule, Death Cab for Cutie has managed to release a visualizer for their song “Pepper”. Teaming up with Frequent Visual and Juliet Bryant, they’ve created a tale straight out of the storybook of your dreams. During this piece of art, you feel like life is coming off of pages for a story of the lost love you’re longing for. It perfectly matches Ben Gibbard‘s solemn voice and the band’s melancholy sound. Death Cab is still touring throughout the States until the end of February. Then they’ll head out to their European leg of the tour.… Read more »
— Today we talk about Death Cab for Cutie’s new visualizer, Beach Weather’s debut album, and Mariana Trench’s charity concert. — Death Cab’s Pepper Comes to Life Even during their busy schedule, Death Cab for Cutie has managed to release a visualizer for their song “Pepper”. Teaming up with Frequent Visual and Juliet Bryant, they’ve created a tale straight out of the storybook of your dreams. During this piece of art, you feel like life is coming off of pages for a story of the lost love you’re longing for. It perfectly matches Ben Gibbard‘s solemn voice and the band’s… Read more »
Hopeless Records have released ‘Songs That Saved My Life’, a new covers album by artists on the label’s roster, to raise money for suicide prevention and mental health charities.
Here’s a list of the artists we need to hear more of—and the single album they did put out is why.
Losing yourself in a ten-hour marathon of your favorite tv show is always fun, but it’s even more fun when you suddenly wake from your reverie at the sounds of some unknown, perfect song emerging from the speakers. For this week’s Tuesday Ten, we asked our writers about ten songs they fell in love with after hearing them on tv.
For most artists, it may be challenging to recreate their favorite songs, but Young Statues have released a solid cover record that reflects their own originality and maintains the integrity of the artists that inspire them the most.
The first challenge of properly absorbing Benjamin Gibbard’s first solo album Former Lives: separating the Death Cab For Cutie and Postal Service versions of Gibbard from the solo one. The new album is more gritty and acoustic than his former beloved gentle indie catalogue, true, but Former Lives needs to be experienced in its own right without any shackles of the past.
Season 2, Episode 4. Pat and Seb chat with Joey Cape, making up sdrow, planning parties, and Seb gets blown with Chuck… Originally Aired November 16, 2006 on idobi Radio. Music from Bad Astronaut, Beastie Boys, Heavens, Unwritten Law, The Postal Service, Black Eyed Peas, The Weakerthans, and Tenacious D.
Lately, it seems like Travis Barker’s schedule consists of puking in his bathroom, taking illicit smoke breaks before meeting with his wedding planner, chewing out said wedding planner and then buying punky Dior purses for his wife, Shanna. At least, that’s what we’re led to believe on “Meet the Barkers.” But it turns out the former Blink-182 drummer and current star of reality TV has been really, really busy as of late, cranking out tunes for his electronic side project, Plus-44, which he formed with Blink’s Mark Hoppus and Carol Heller, formerly of Cali-punks Get the Girl. When MTV News… Read more »
