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. This week's guests on Sound Opinions are none other than our local heroes, Death Cab for Cutie. We listened and we loved it. It's......

Not that we need to feed his ego or anything, but John Roderick (of The Long Winters) is a funny dude. Whilst heating up our chicken pot pie from Trader Joe's, we perused a copy of the Weekly someone had left out. Starting from the back, it wasn't long before we saw a goofy cartoon Roderick giving us a great big toothy smile. With his column, entitled, "Exposing the Poker Skills of the Sasquatch! Class......

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. If you're a fan, you'll love this one. Lots of great footage from their current tour. While we're at it, congratulations to the band for......

That is, if you've got an extra eight and a half minutes in your pocket. That's how long it takes to get through Death Cab's sprawling new single from their forthcoming new album, Narrow Stairs (out May 13th). We're not sure how we feel about this one yet. We heart Ben Gibbard & company, but this song feels unnecessarily long, such that it borders a little on pretentious. We're not against a lengthy, "epic" song......

If you haven't yet heard through the grapevine, Death Cab will release their 8th studio album in May of this year. Teaser video HERE. (After watching the trailer, go on and check out the new look of their site. Sexy!)......

After suffering decades of rocker-inflicted damage and debauchery, hotel rooms are finally fighting back. Their first victim: Former Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell. Via SFGate.com: The star and his wife Vicky were staying at the Faena Hotel in Buenos Aires last week following a gig in the capital, but their visit was ruined when many of their possessions were damaged. A source tells Page Six, "After performing in front of a sold-out 20,000 capacity arena,......

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,......

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. Love reportedly made $50 million selling 25% of Nirvana's song catalog in 2006. More recently, she......

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). Messrs Krasinski and Gibbard commandeered a booth in the back along with a retinue of dudes and girls. Outside, we saw Krasinski very patiently and very politely agreeing to appear in photos with various Croc patrons. One mid-30s skater dude announced that his was "goin'......

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. The Long Winters were finally back home in Seattle after a long tour of the U.S. and Europe and would be playing our favorite venue, the Showbox. Spacious yet intimate, stylish but not too hoity-toity -- we like the Showbox because we......

--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. --There is what they're calling a "serial peeping Tom" on the loose in the University District. --Yesterday Mrs. Seattlest opened the commemorative Spirit of Washington chardonnay for cooking and today there's word that the dinner train may not......

-The contract the P-I's union has tentatively accepted stipulates higher severance packages if the paper stops publishing. Well played, union. -Ben Gibbard's playing Lance Armstrong by offering these guitar string bracelets for charity. Via Indieblogheaven. -Sound Transit has decided to build light rail alongside I-90. Construction begins 2045. -"Here is a molester!" Tokyo subway groping ain't what it used to be. -The B.C. guys who spent a year and $400,000 digging a drug tunnel......

Seattlest attended the Danielson show Tuesday at Chop Suey and we would have written about it sooner, but our newest contributor, Chris Hanger, came down with some "mysterious illness," so we are only getting around to posting it now. Quoth the Hanger: 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......

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......

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. 2) Citizen Cope (Main Stage) - We keep hearing about how great Citizen Cope is. That “Bullet in a Target” song is everywhere. Prior to Saturday, the other songs we heard by him (aka Clarence......

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). After napping through last night's VMA, with host Diddy (who is about as musically relevant these days as......

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. Tickets are $5, and the movie is preceded by performances from local 2005 Emerging Music Award winners at 7:30pm. This week's musical guest is Matthew Shaw. We don't know much about Mr. Shaw but Google yielded numerous references......