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• Death Cab for Cutie No Tourist On Music Scene

When Death Cab for Cutie started touring in 1997, the band shared a single cell phone as it crisscrossed the continent in a van. There were three national tours before Death Cab had an album that sold more than 100,000 units. It was really beneficial for us to take a blue-collar approach and work our way up from the mailroom," says drummer Jason McGerr. "A band today can have a huge single and never leave their hometown before they are thrust into the limelight and have to learn how to communicate as a band and perform as a band. The fact that we've had all this time -- we're now in our mid-30s -- and are still able to do this is because we took all that time. I'm glad that, at 25, we didn't sell 2 million records because I don't think, at 28, we'd be able to cope or deal with each oth...

• Tribune - Review / Pittsburgh Tribune - Review
• August 03, 2011

• Death Cab for Cutie Renueva El Rock

Actuar frente al público variado y variopinto del Hollywood Bowl es una "idea que me encanta", prosigue [Jason McGerr], quien empezó su carrera en bandas como Krusters Kronomid, Eureka Farm y Rockin' Teenage Combo. "La gente puede traer su comida y bebida y todo conduce a una noche relajada, agradable. Eso hace que la experiencia para el público sea más cómoda. En cierta forma tenemos que entender que hay que actuar frente a una audiencia nueva, a la que tenemos que convencer, tocando lo mejor que podamos. Se trata de hacer del show algo especial". Jason McGerr reconoce que no es fácil su función como baterista al estar rodeado de los músicos de la aclamada orquesta de Los Ángeles. "Normalmente un baterista en una sinfónica no toca demasiado", explica. "En un movimiento [orquestal] quiz...

• La Opinión; Los Angeles, Calif.
• October 09, 2009

• Concert Review Death Cab for Cutie Brings Inspired, Smart Rock to Red Butte

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, ANDREW BIRD AND RA RA RIOT, Red Butte Garden Amphitheater, July 13 A trifecta of indie-music hotshots, led by Northwest darlings Death Cab for Cutie, roosted in the cozy environs of the Red Butte Garden Ampitheater Monday night and delivered a sonic reminder of how great smart, inspired rock can really be.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• July 15, 2009

• Comfort in Sound: Big Time Beckons Death Cab for Cutie; Nice Guys Try to Finish First in Rock 'N' Roll

NEW YORK - The sensitive, polite, nice guys that are Death Cab for Cutie were reared in the Seattle area during the heyday of grunge. Though their name might suggest a hard edge, for eight years Death Cab has been building a following with gentle, introspective pop. Far from brash and loud anti-heroes, they are, as guitarist Chris Walla says, more a reaction to their hometown's fabled era.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• September 11, 2005

• Death Cab for Cutie Hits the Fox

The group formed during the late 1990s at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wash. Lead singer and guitarist Ben Gibbard is also lead singer of The Postal Service and is married to actress and musician Zooey Deschanel. The group's latest album, released in May, is "Codes and Keys," which features the hit "You Are a Tourist.

• Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
• October 14, 2011

• Short Takes: Touring the World for Death Cab for Cutie

Director Aaron Stewart-Ahn became good friends with the members of the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie after years of documenting their live perfo...

• American Cinematographer
• Vol. 89 Nbr. 8, August 2008

• Death Cab for Cutie

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Plans Atlantic PUSSYFOOTING Indie rock's mainstream-diving heart-on-sleeve emo intellectuals water their top down Besides Death Ca...

• Village Voice, The
• August 05, 2009

• Death Cab for Cutie Rides a Crest of Creativity

Death Cab for Cutie fans indulged front man Ben Gibbard when he embarked on his solo tour last year, but now he's back in his proper place. I always wanted to do it and never had the time. It was fun, it went well, and I learned what I wanted as a musician," Gibbard says of the trek. "But I've never been more exhausted in my life. I was emotionally and physically drained.

• Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
• October 19, 2008

• Seattle Indie Band Death Cab for Cutie Is Now Big Business with No. 1 Album

For long time followers of Death Cab for Cutie, the news was a pleasantly unexpected sock to the tender-hearted jaw, just as it was for singer Ben Gibbard. Recently, the Seattle quartet's sixth full- length album, "Narrow Stairs," entered the Billboard Top 200 at No. 1, putting the band in such company as Madonna, Mariah Carey and George Strait, just to name a few artists who held the top spot in the past few weeks. It's a milestone that cements the fact that Death Cab isn't a little indie band that could anymore - this is an indie band that can, did and does. Buzz has been building around "Narrow Stairs" for months in the wake of the success of Death Cab's previous record, 2005's "Plans," which marked the band's first record in a deal with Atlantic, and sold more than a million copies....

• Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
• July 13, 2008

• Plans: Death Cab for Cutie

Death Cab fans will be satisfied with Plans. Even those who may hold the major label status against the band (like me) will admit that they still sound like Death Cab, which is good. Gibbard's smooth voice guides the listener through adorable yet clever pieces of songwriting, sometimes concerning darker territory than past tunes. Though Death Cab does sound mature on past albums, Plans exhibits a definite maturation in both the crafting of the music and the lyrics.

• Boise Weekly
• August 05, 2009