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Ye Olde Stereogum is spending this whole week doing a track-a-day premiere of Death Cab's new Narrow Stairs companion The Open Door EP. Monday was Track 1 from the EP "Little Bribes"; yesterday was "A Diamond and a Tether"; and today they have posted "My Mirror Speaks." Now all you've got to look forward to--besides Ben Gibbard possessing your heart and/or following you into the dark--is "I Was Once a Loyal Lover" and a demo of "Talking Bird." The Open Door is available digitally next Tuesday, with a CD release next month.

Come March 31st, Death Cab fans will have some new music to possess their sensitive little hearts. The Open Door will feature four previously unreleased songs recorded during the Narrow Stairs sessions and a demo version of "Talking Bird," with Gibbard showing off his ukulele skillz. The new EP will be available online March 31st, on tour April 7th, and in stores April 14th. The band has also announced their Spring tour schedule. Thus far, the closest to Seattle they'll be is April 22nd at the Mount Baker Theater in Bellingham (with Ra Ra Riot), and July 18th at Marymoor Park in Redmond (with Ra Ra Riot and The New Pornographers).

While clearly not as important as foie gras, there's another issue weighing on our hearts and minds. Death Cab for Cutie have valiantly taken up a meaningful cause: auto-tune. The band has faux-organized a pseudo-political campaign against "auto-tune abuse in music." At last night's Grammys, DCFC showed up wearing baby blue ribbons pinned to their jackets, which they claimed was to raise awareness for their "campaign."

She's already a member of She and Him, but now Zooey Deschanel is a part of She and Him? Is he funny or something?

Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie tells SPIN.com that the next album will be a lot "softer" than Narrow Stairs, which he says was a dark and exhausting album to create. In return, SPIN calls him a 'broken-hearted bard,' which sounds like an exhausting way to live--even before taking on an ambitiously epic musical project. Maybe it's time to make another electronic indie pop record. (Note to Gibbard: Please reconsider your hesitancy and give the people what they want!)

If you haven't listened to Chicago Public Radio's Sound Opinions before, it's a show hosted by two well-respected music critics/dorks (Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot). Each week they have intelligent, candid discussions on popular music. Often, they have guests and these guests perform songs and get chatty with Jim and Greg.

Not that we need to feed his ego or anything, but John Roderick (of The Long Winters) is a funny dude.

It's Thursday night, and we're getting pretty psyched up for Sasquatch. We've spent the better part of our day online, listening to but a small sample of the bands we'll see this weekend. And tonight, we finally got around to watching this "Open Windows" Death Cab documentary video for Current.

That is, if you've got an extra eight and a half minutes in your pocket.

If you haven't yet heard through the grapevine, Death Cab will release their 8th studio album in May of this year.

After suffering decades of rocker-inflicted damage and debauchery, hotel rooms are finally fighting back. Their first victim: Former Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell.

In December 1992, Kurt Cobain and rock journalist Michael Azerrad began a series of interviews that would eventually become the beating heart of Azerrad's band biography, Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana. For that project, Azerrad recorded over 25 hours of the rock star's musings and reflections, but until pairing with director AJ Schnack to make Kurt Cobain About a Son, had never released the tapes' contents to the public. This film, then, playing at the Varsity for just one week, is a gift to Nirvana fans, the Kurt-curious and grunge scholars everywhere.

Remember the cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind, the album that made the band—and the word "grunge"—a household name? A naked baby, swimming blithely in pristine water, reaches for a dollar bill—a dollar bill that's on a large fish hook. The image is memorable for its ironic, dangerous, clear message. Courtney Love didn't catch the meaning. Director AJ Schnack does.

We spotted Jim from The Office--real name: John Krasinski--having drinks at the Crocodile Friday night with Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie (who Seattlest Jack chatted with last week).

Saturday night, a cool fifty degrees downtown. Parked on Western. Climbed the stairs to the market. Crossed the street at 1st & Pike. Something special in the air -- we could feel it.

--Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie is reported to be set for his big screen debut in the adaptation of David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews With Hideous Men. Gibbard himself is not a hideous man, though.

-20-year-old Mariner Adam Jones makes his major league debut at about 4:07 tonight, batting ninth and playing centerfield.

Danielson took the stage around 11:30. The crowd steadily filed in from their twenty-minute smoke breaks. Ben Gibbard of Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie fame showed up following the opening band.

Continue reading "Danielson at Chop Suey A Few Nights Ago"

We can continue giving Death Cab hometown welcomes when they breeze through town, but we should keep in mind that it only takes one certain television appearance to give them a new home in the eyes of the outside world. Gibbard and co are taking their show across the pond in February and when people report on this there's no mention of "trading the soggy streets of Seattle for the soggy streets of London." Instead we get this from Pitchfork:

1) Mercir (EMP Sky Church) - We started the day with some electro indie rock. With moody vocals, usually more atmospheric than lyrical, this three piece uses guitars, keyboards and a latop computer to create a rich wall of sound.

Despite the fact that their new album has been flooding p2p networks for weeks (naughty emo kids!), the new Death Cab album, 'Plans' is officially available tomorrow. It is expected to sell approximately 100,000 copies in its first week, which isn't bad considering lead singer, Ben Gibbard, has the world's roundest head (de-throning former champ Phil Collins).

This Thursday the Red Hook brewery kicks off its Moonlight Cinema series with Monty Python and the Holy Grail. There's so many one-liners we could throw at you right now, our brain just came out our ears.