Death Cab For Cutie Fan Record

The full list of dates and teaser video are up on deathcabforcutie.com.

2018 Lineup – Travelers Rest Fest

“For someone who’s written a lot of lyrics, the internet is almost always wrong,” Gibbard told HuffPost.

In all, Gibbard's set makes a fine choice as the 250th Tiny Desk Concert we've published since the series was born nearly five years ago: For all the big, elaborate set-ups we've entertained in the NPR Music offices, it's always nice to return to the series' origins as a place for quiet singer-songwriters to do their thing unadorned, without getting drowned out by other sounds. Even minus a band at his back, Gibbard warrants the undivided attention.

Great song, but it's not a "deep cut" and they play it live a lot.

"I know people who that's their favorite album of ours, and I would never try to convince anyone otherwise, but when I think of that in the context of our catalog, it's my second least favorite album," Gibbard concludes. "But making The Photo Album showed us what we didn't want to do ever again. I don't want to make a record because we have to make a record. I don't want to go into the studio with eight songs and try to cobble together two sort-of songs so we can make a 10-song album. I don't want to do that ever again. I want to go in with more songs than we need. I want us to have choices. So in that sense, it was very much a bridge, because we learned what we didn't want to do again."

Transatlanticism is essentially an album about the inescapable frailty of relationships, love and loss; much of the content is focused on the latter. “Title and Registration” mourns a faded love shoved back into the forefront of Gibbard’s mind by a picture hidden in the glove compartment, a “souvenir from better times.” The song acknowledges how such reminders can exorcise emotions that seemed long gone, as if they were never there.

Ben Gibbard and Julien Baker performing Death Cab For Cutie's "Photobooth" at Thalia Hall in Chicago on 1/20/17.

Loudwire dared Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee to play a Hello Kitty piano recently. The singer did not back down from the challenge as you can find a video of her playing a cover of Death Cab For Cutie‘s song “I Will Follow You Into The Dark” on the said instrument below.

So cool!

Cool project. After watching this, go listen to Aimee Mann's song.

"I remember a long time ago I always thought Death Cab for Cutie was kinda this broody, moody band, and live they just rocked, they kicked so much a**," Fraites remembers. "And I was like, 'Whoa, it's so cool how you can have this artifact that's immortalized in a recording, and then live give something human and not be this tense, uptight representation note-for-note of a song.'"

I'm sure Ben appreciated this despite it being the Red Sox.

How many rock stars are serious guests on sports shows?

I've watched this at least 50 times.

But Tillis also favors music more likely to be heard in a hip urban coffee shop than a GOP campaign event: Death Cab For Cutie’s “When Soul Meets Body,” Modest Mouse’s “Ocean Breathes Salty” and Spoon’s “Don’t You Evah.”

Jason McGerr - Death Cab For Cutie Interview with CFOX