'Jack Johnson Rocks!!' @ Baltimore Virgin Fest (by Bao Nguyen)

Tickets are on sale for Death Cab For Cutie's Radio City show.

Tickets are on sale for both of Yeasayer's upcoming NYC shows.

Tickets are on sale for the October 15th Danzig show at Roseland Ballroom.

Tickets are on sale for a September 5th Fratellis show at Roseland Ballroom.

Both Andrew Bird shows sold right out Wednesday.

Check the free show calendar for FREE SHOWS.

DCFC @ McCarren Pool (more by Elizabeth Weinberg)

Tickets go on sale Friday for an October 6th Death Cab For Cutie show at Radio City Music Hall. There's also a fanclub presale. All dates below...

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Thurston Moore @ Starbucks - June 13, 2008 (cred)

Renegade Craft Fair, McCarren Pool, Brooklyn, NY - June 14, 2008 (cred)

Thurston Moore signing his new book near KF - June 13, 2008 (cred)

today in NYC
* FREE STUFF
* Sigur Ros @ Grand Ballroom
* The Muslims @ Mercury Lounge
* Jose Gonzalez @ The Stone Pony
* Martha Wainwright @ Barnes & Noble
* Ted Leo & the Pharmacists & Variety Shac @ Maxwell's
* Love is All, Versus & Crystal Stilts @ Bowery Ballroom
* Rickie Lee Jones & Erik Friedlander @ (le) poisson rouge

Did you go to (le) poisson rouge yet? Damon & Naomi played last night. How is it?

The above paparazzi picture of Thurston @ Starbucks happened on Friday. I wonder if he has a free-coffee-for-life card. Later that night he played Knitting Factory.

It rained on R.E.M. It rained on My Morning Jacket. It rained on Vampire Weekend. It rained on Death Cab For Cutie. It rained on Adam Green's parade. A member of Sigur Ros was in the hospital. Iron Maiden lost their sound.

Knitting Factory is coming to Brooklyn.

"New York F*cking City" (NSFW)

Videos of Death Cab For Cutie playing Bonnaroo below.

What else?

Continue reading "What's going on Monday?"

photos by Elizabeth Weinberg

The concert ended thirty minutes early as high winds started pulling the rigged lights down, a situation unsafe for band and crew. The last song Death Cab played was "The Sound of Settling." This is a completely average song, BUT something about the juxtaposition of the wind and the swirling purple clouds and the lighting made it seem frenetic and panicked. Immediately after DCFC left the stage, it started pouring big, sloppy raindrops. [SCOPE Productions]

Continue reading "Death Cab For Cutie @ McCarren Pool, Brooklyn, NYC - pics"

To some, Kozelek may come across as a recluse, but he's anything but: since the release of Sun Kil Moon's debut--2003's extraordinary Ghosts of the Great Highway--he's scored a film, acted in the movie Shopgirl, and put out a double-disc live album as well as a Sun Kil Moon record consisting of nothing but Modest Mouse songs. [Popmatters]

Ben Gibbard: When I was in my early 20s, I saw people in their 30s or 40s very differently than I do now. There's a level of confusion that is never really quelled as you get older.

Mark Kozelek: I hear what you're saying about the confusion of it all. A part of you feels like you haven't grown up as much as you should at this age. I'm really in a strange position, where I'm 41, still don't know how to drive a car, I'm not married, I don't have kids. When I go back to Ohio, that's where it really kicks in. Everyone around there is dealing with their mortgages and their kids and all these things. That's where I really feel the confusion, and I really feel like the odd man out. There, nobody really cares about my record deals or my little bit parts in movies or these little blurbs I get in magazines. Everything's more like, "If you don't have kids, and you don't have religion, and you don't go to church, and you don't drive a car, and you don't own a home, and you're not married, you just don't have shit." [Laughs.]

Ben Gibbard plays McCarren Pool tonight. Mark Kozelek plays Highline Ballroom on Friday (the 13th). All of Mark's tour dates are below....

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photos by Chris Graham

In case you don't recognize him, that's Ben Gibbard at the Sasquatch Festival in Washington this past Sunday (May 25). He is a member of the #1 band in America Death Cab For Cutie who are playing a show at McCarren Pool in Brooklyn on June 10th with Rogue Wave (who also played Sasquatch). After the McCarren show, the party continues at Music Hall of Williamsburg:

Post Death Cab For Cutie Show!

The XYZ Affair
Action Painters

Tue 6/10, 18+, Doors 9pm / Show 10pm, FREE

Continue reading "Death Cab For Cutie & Rogue Wave played Sasquatch (pics), The XYZ Affair are playing for free after McCarren Pool"

DCFC @ Coachella 2008 (more by Ruan Muir)

Death Cab for Cutie were the live wires on this week's album chart, debuting on top with 144,000 units sold for their seventh full-length album, Narrow Stairs. That's a broad step up from the 90,000 that their last album, Plans, opened with in 2005. In retrospect, releasing an eight-and-a-half-minute single ('I Will Possess Your Heart') doesn't seem like such a disastrous move after all, does it? [EW Hollywood Insider]

Continue reading "#1 band in America, DCFC played Kimmel (video) "

Death Cab For Cutie's new album is streaming at Spinner. It came out yeterday - the same day they played Letterman. Watch the video below....

Continue reading "Death Cab For Cutie - new album stream & Letterman video "

photos by Bao Nguyen

When their touring dates are finished, Sara jokes that their summer will contain "beverages and bikinis," but in truth, they will be hard at work on other projects. "Tegan and I are both writing furiously for the next record," she says. "I have always felt like I was squeezing songs out of me slowly, but lately I've been writing a lot. We recently played a show with Death Cab For Cutie, where we talked with [guitarist/producer] Chris Walla who worked on our last record. We're pretty much signed up to work on our next record with him again." [Spinner]

Tegan and Sara played a sold out show at Terminal 5 in NYC last night (May 12, 2008). More tour dates HERE. More pictures from the show below....

Continue reading "Tegan & Sara @ Terminal 5, NYC (pics) ++ new record coming"

Death Cab for Cutie's Narrow Stairs is the marquee music release this week.

Also out this week is the Black Angels' Directions To See A Ghost. The band's performance at its "Psychfest" show was the highlight of SXSW for me, and this album is one of 2008's musical bright spots.

From what I have already heard, I can also strongly recommend Dosh's Wolves and Wishes, Duffy's Rockferry, The Instruments' Dark Smaland, and Vetiver's Thing of the Past. The new Old 97s disc, Blame It on Gravity (I had just about given up on the band after their last couple of albums, but this is a wonderful return to form by Rhett Miller & company).

I'll be paying import prices for the overseas releases of Gemma Hayes' Hollow of Morning and the Delays' Everything's the Rush (the band's Faded Seaside Glamour was one of my favorite albums of 2004).

The only reissue of note this week is Hush's release of Nick Jaina's 2006 album, The 7 Stations.

Continue reading "Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week"

here's a couple of pics of Death Cab For Cutie that Ryan Muir took at Coachella...

tonight in NYC
* Enon @ Hiro Ballroom
* The Kills @ Webster Hall
* Dolly Parton @ Radio City
* Robyn @ the Virgin Megastore
* Chris Rock @ the Theater @ MSG
* Scout Niblett @ Knitting Factory
* Tribeca Film Festival day parties
* Ministry & Meshuggah @ Irving Plaza
* Film School & Mahogany @ Mercury Lounge
* The Budos Band @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* I'm From Barcelona @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple

Tickets are still on sale for the Death Cab For Cutie & Rogue Wave show at McCarren Pool this summer.

What else?

Rogue Wave rocking kids @ Living Room, NYC - April 13, 2008 (Maryanne Ventrice)

Rogue Wave is opening for Death Cab For Cutie at McCarren Pool on June 10th. Tickets are on sale. More DC tour dates here.

* Tickets are going on sale for The Raconteurs/Black Lips @ Terminal 5.
* Tickets are going on sale Death Cab For Cutie @ McCarren Pool.

Continue reading "Just Jazzin' = new Ben Gibbard side project (video)"

Tickets go on sale Friday for a June 10th Death Cab For Cutie show at McCarren Pool in Brooklyn (thx anon). Fan Club presale HERE. Death Cab's new single "I Will Possess Your Heart" is out now. Full album out May 13th. All dates and coverart below.....

Continue reading "Death Cab For Cutie - more 2008 Tour Dates (McCarren Pool)"

Death Cab For Cutie (new album soon) and The Raconteurs (new album very soon) have each announced separate tours that don't include NYC dates, but both do include Coachella and Bonnaroo. The Raconteurs presale code = consolers. Chris Walla gave away a guitar. All dates below....

Continue reading "Death Cab for Cutie & The Raconteurs announce tours"

DOWNLOAD: Feist - Mushaboom (Postal Service Remix) (MP3)

Death Cab For Cutie is coming out with a new album in May 2008. You can watch a trailer for it on their new website.

Also to look foward to in 2008: a collaboration between Death Cab frontman Ben Gibbard and Leslie Feist...

during a recent off day in Louisville, she and her touring band got the itch to roll tape. "We thought, day off? Let's just do something fun," she recalls. "Bowling? A hike? Instead, we rented a studio."

There, "we took turns and played together," she says. Feist "fooled around on some new stuff" and sang a Grizzly Bear song. She also recorded the basic track for a collaboration with Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard, which will appear on the "Red Hot and Indie" compilation being produced by the National's Aaron and Bryce Dessner. [Billboard]

I present to you two lame videos by confused "artists" - both using lame stereotypes. The first song is supposed to be about "emo bitches", and the second one was.... performed by some....

Continue reading "Emo Bitches vs. Williamsburg"

It's like if the cast of The OC, Gilmore Girls, Veronica Mars & Grey's Anatomy all got together for one big Christmas special hosted by Zach Braff...

Continue reading "VIDEO: Ben Gibbard, John Vanderslice, Jenny Lewis & David Bazan - 'Such Great Heights' @ the Fillmore"