Ben Gibbard

The Best of Coachella: Weekend Two

The Visual Stimulations for People Who Were High Coachella's art installations -- the ones designed to impress you while you're high, aka all of them -- were particularly impressive this year. There was the tesla coil, the crane that was formerly a flower but now a praying mantis, the giant floresce ... More >>

The Best of Coachella: Weekend One

Karen O's Outfit Karen O's wardrobe on Friday night was bad ass. The Yeah Yeah Yeah's front woman appeared on the main stage in a technicolor cape draped over a suit that looked like it was made of mercury. The vibrant collage was topped with a headpiece that Liberace might have worn had he ever bee ... More >>

The Postal Service are Coming to Dallas: Presale Starts Tomorrow

Update, 2/20, 9:50 a.m. The pre sales have started for East Coast dates. The link goes live to the right of the date, where it currently says On Sale Soon. Once you click, you get put in a queue for tickets, so I'd try and click as close to 10 a.m. as you humanly can. As in, start refreshing your br ... More >>

The Fifteen Worst Make Out Records Ever

It's a classic Valentine's Day dilema -- you've planned ahead, made the sweeping gestures, made eyes across a white tablecloth and now you're ready to express yourself with some good old fashioned parts-rubbing. Whatever you do, don't play any of these records.

The Postal Service Reunion was Ten Years Coming. Do you Feel Old Yet?

If you are in or around your mid-twenties, this probably isn't the first time you've felt the cold hands of classic-rockdom closing around your neck. (For me, it was seeing a Garden State DVD on the bargain shelf at an FYE. And then, right afterward, it was thinking, "Man, I can't believe I used to ... More >>

Dntel: Brought To You By The Postal Service

Over the Weekend: Death Cab for Cutie and Frightened Rabbit at the Verizon Theatre

Death Cab for Cutie, Frightened RabbitVerizon TheatreAugust 13, 2011 Better than: sweating in the heat only to watch a band implode. Death Cab for Cutie​After living through the nightmare that was the Kings of Leon show a few weeks back, it was nice to be in the cool confines of Verizon Theatre Sa ... More >>

Death Cab For Cutie, Frightened Rabbit

Saturday, August 13, at Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie

Music Video Monday: New Clips From The O's, The Wooden Birds and Forever The Sickest Kids

Back in February, just as revered area folk-rock duo The O's were gearing up to release Between The Two, their much-anticipated second release, Taylor Young and John Pedigo released a music video for their album's lead single, "We'll Go Walking." The clip, we were told at the time, was to be just t ... More >>

Giveaway: Five Pairs of Tickets to See Freelance Whales and Miniature Tigers at the Loft

Freelance Whales​Some people have wild stories on how they became band members. Others just grew up together. And some, like Freelance Whales, meet each other on Craigslist.And sometimes, that can make for the best results. Freelance Whales' electro-pop debut album, Weathervanes, has garnered mass ... More >>

Today In Music News: College Students Study Lady Gaga, Ben Gibbard Talks New Death Cab And T.I.'s Wife Gets Charged

Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, November 1, 2010...Students at the University of South Carolina will look to get an easy "A" in the Spring semester as the school offers the course "Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame."Ben Gibbard doesn't really care if you like the new Death Cab ... More >>

Neon Indian To Release Deluxe Edition of Psychic Chasms, Stateside

Artwork for Mind Ctrl: Psychic Chasms Possessed​Lately our coverage of Neon Indian has been a near-daily affair, but the Denton band just keeps cranking out big news. Earlier in the week we told you about the UK release of Psychic Chasms, featuring a bonus remix disc called Mind Ctrl: Psychic Chas ... More >>

Aural Ambush: The Octopus Project

As you may have noticed, the last rebirth of Aural Ambush wasn't as long-lasting as we'd hoped. This summer we're giving it another go.If you're not familiar with the concept, it's pretty simple: We grab an mp3 from a group touring through our domain, equip ourselves with CD player, headphones, and ... More >>

Listomania: Five Failed Musician-Celebrity Collaborations

​Last month, She & Him's Volume Two hit stores, featuring the "unlikely dynamic duo" of actress Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward. Since then, many celebrities have become jealous to achieve this same intellectual-indie success. Last year, Scarlett Johansson & Pete Yorn made a little CD called B ... More >>

Owl City: The Latest In A Long Line Of Rip-Offs

Today In Music News: Yellow Submarine Getting Remade, The Gallagher's Hate Each Other and Ben Gibbard Love Jack Kerouac

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, August 21, 2009...Robert Zemeckis is planning on remaking the Yellow Submarine movie for Disney. Since it's Disney, there will probably be plenty of vampy teens in it. Liam Gallagher says he and brother Noel do not speak to each other anymore. Soun ... More >>

The Wooden Birds, Other Lives

Wednesday, June 17, at House of Blues

Yesterday at NX35: Lydia and PlayRadioPlay! at Rubber Gloves

BANDS: Lydia and PlayRadioPlay! VENUE: Rubber GlovesTIME: 10:30pm After prying myself away from Billy Roy's One Man Show on the Square, I grabbed a bite to eat. Then off to Rubber Gloves it was. And, actually, the atmosphere inside the venue was stifling. Walking from the bar into the performan ... More >>

Today In Music News: Zooey Deschanel's Engaged, Axl's Touring, Bands Need Beds and Jay-Z Got A Problem

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, December 30, 2008... My life is over. Yes, it's over. The indie powerhouses known as Zooey Dechannel (She & Him) and Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie) are apparently (read: allegedly) engaged. He apparently popped the question on Christm ... More >>

Weekend Roundup: Death Cab, Buckcherry, the Hollywood Undead, the Hit

Was there a weekend? It sure doesn't feel like it, but the videos don't lie so it must have happened. Oh well, it's Monday now, and there are videos to watch. Don't forget that Christmas is closing in and it's high time we all started getting those wish lists ready for Santa. Now let's see. I want ... More >>

Admit It: Death Cab Made You Vote

Last Night: Death Cab for Cutie at Nokia Theatre

Death Cab for Cutie, Rogue Wave

Tuesday, June 17, at Nokia Theatre, Grand Prairie

D-Notes: On Thursday, February 14

Ben Gibbard, David Bazan, Johnathan Rice

Monday, May 14, at the Granada Theater

Independence Day

What's indie rock? Who cares? Here are 10 great CDs that will blow you away, no matter your definition.

Into the Dark

Weirded out by Thursday's Journey/Def Leppard bill? The future is worse.

Death Cab for Frat Guys

Anarchy in The O.C.

You'll never guess which TV show Death Cab for Cutie is sick of talking about

Styrofoam

Wednesday, November 16, at Gypsy Tea Room's "Tea Room"

Death Cab For Cutie

Plans (Atlantic)

Cab Fare

Death Cab for Cutie are the kings of rock. Sort of.

Death Cab for Cutie

Transatlanticism (Barsuk)

Grandaddy

Sumday (V2)

The Postal Service

April 8

Photo Finish

Death Cab for Cutie sees itself as just a guitar band. You might not agree.

Your Bruises

Death Cab for Cutie is just trying to stay healthy long enough to pay for a broken windshield