Death Cab has added more dates to their upcoming touring schedule. In the last week, they have announced the following tour stops:
05/09/08 Providence, RI @ Providence Piers (Click here to buy tickets) 05/10/08 Boston, MA @ Bank of America Pavilion (Click here to buy tickets) 05/24/08 Bend, OR @ Les Schwab Amphitheater (Click here to buy tickets, click "register" button for access to tickets) 05/28/08 Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre (Click here to buy tickets, click "register" button for access to tickets)
And now Death Cab is pleased to add the following dates to their tour:
06/09/08 Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion (Special ticket pre-sale available to fan club members on 3/26, general on-sale date is 3/29)
06/13/08 Cleveland, OH @ Plain Dealer Pavilion (Special ticket pre-sale available to fan club members on 3/26, General on sale date is 3/28)
06/17/08 Grand Prairie, TX @ Nokia Theatre (Special ticket pre-sale available to fan club members on 3/26, General on-sale date is 3/29)
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hola!!!! hey guys I really loved your album!!!! why you didn't included in your tour mexico city?¡?¡ :( I think it's time to visit us, you got lot of fans here!!!!! we really love you :) , If you take mi suggestion please let me know and I'll show you the city ;)
wooo hooo! im in your top friends! bought your new album a few days ago and wrote a blog that compares you to a juicy juicy steak! just wanted to thank you for making beautiful music to fall in and out of love to, you have gotten me through so many hard and happy times i heard your touring australia soon! can you tell me when you hit melbourne? ill be there will bells on!
Death Cab for Cutie was one of a handful of bands that could sell out clubs, hit the top of the college radio charts and have a viable career without the support of a major label, corporate radio or MTV. Then they made the switch to a major label. The indie world held its breath, hoping their heroes would not disappoint them. They needn't have worried. Death Cab's leader, Ben Gibbard, has had his own share of heartbreak, and isn't about to inflict that sort of disappointment on anyone.
It was that heartbreak, however, that drove the Bellingham, Washington college student to song. With nine songs of love and pain, he asked Chris Walla, who shared his appreciation for Teenage Fanclub, and bassist/comic-book-geek Nick Hammer to join a band. They called themselves Death Cab for Cutie after a song by the weird, wonderful English cult group, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, which had come to Gibbard's attention via the Beatles Magical Mystery Tour film.
Being near Seattle didn't hurt the band's chances for developing a live following, so they had ample opportunity to hone their act. Signing with a locally respected label, Bartuk, they released Something About Airplanes in 1998, toured, recorded, released 2000's We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes and 2001's The Photo Album. It was a spectacular trajectory, with each record and each tour outselling the last.
Then, just when it looked like they could do no wrong, they ran out of steam. Rather than fake it, they decided to take a break. Chris Walla went on to produce music for The Decembrists, The Thermals and Nada Surf; and Gibbard decided to hang out with a friend of his, Jimmy Tamborello, in Los Angeles. Before long, he and Tamborello were goofing off in Tamborello's Silverlake studio, recording electronic-flavored pop songs under the group name, The Postal Service. The resulting album, Give Up, sold more than 600,000 copies.
Although many worried that this would mean the end of Death Cab, Gibbard, Walla, Hammer and new drummer Jason McGerr surprised everyone by regrouping and releasing their biggest album yet, Transatlanticism. Buoyed by near constant references to the band on the television show, The O.C., Death Cab doubled the sales of their previous album, became media darlings and played with Pearl Jam on the Vote for Change tour.
Then the unthinkable happened. Death Cab, long an indie stalwart, signed with Atlantic Records. They went out of their way to justify the decision to their fans, explaining that they were still distrustful of record company economics and would, against the company's wishes, releasing songs on the Internet before the actual release date. But, they said, there was very little to worry about in terms of corporate control of their music, since they were going to release the music they wanted to, period.
Other bands have said that and then done exactly the opposite, but Death Cab for Cutie proved they meant business with 2005's Plans, which went gold and received a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Album of 2005. Plans, as Walla told Popmatters.com, explores wider, dreamier atmospheres that perfectly support Gibbard’s songs about love and regret. This is even more evident with Directions, the companion DVD of videos released several months later.
As Walla says, "Someone who decides the new album is worse just because it's on a major label "is pretty delusional". The real secret to keeping fans is to have some integrity" and to "be honest about what we're doing and why we're doing it.â€
Ultimately, he says, Death Cab for Cutie is making the exact type of records they want to make. Which, in this day and time, is perhaps the ultimate indie statement of all.
