When MTV's college-obsessed little sister station mtvU announced the nominations for this year's Woodie Awards, we had some fun trying to make sense of the logic underlying the way in which they had grouped together bands and pit them against... CONTINUE READING PHOTOS, VIDEO FROM THE 2009 MTVU WOODIE AWARDS»
Posted on November 19, 2009 in (12 comments)
Tags: Alexa Chung | Alison Mosshart | Amber Tamblyn | Asher Roth | Ben Gibbard | Chris Walla | Clips | Cyndi Lauper | David Cross | Death Cab For Cutie | Diplo | Fall Out Boy | Jack White | Leighton Meester | Mary-Louise Parker | Matt And Kim | mtvU Woodie Awards | Passion Pit | Pete Wentz | Rick Ross | The Dead Weather | Zooey Deschanel
The Quin sisters brought the non-spiritual song "Hell," the lead single from the non-spiritual LP Sainthood, to Conan last night. Take it to the end not so much for Coco's response to their performance but how he's at least two... CONTINUE READING TEGAN & SARA GIVE CONAN "HELL"»
Posted on November 3, 2009 in , (16 comments)
Tags: Chris Walla | Conan O'Brien | Tegan And Sara
Most fans were into "Hell"'s "bigger and more forceful" full-band sound. Listen to T&S's sixth album at MySpace to see if the Quins and their Death Cab collaborators maintain the vibe.... CONTINUE READING STREAM TEGAN & SARA'S SAINTHOOD»
Posted on October 20, 2009 (9 comments)
Tags: Chris Walla | Death Cab For Cutie | Jason McGerr | Tegan And Sara
What do you get when you cross Death Cab and Jawbox? Find out at NPR, where Walla and Robbins entered the Project Song studio strangers and emerged in two days with a song.... CONTINUE READING NEW CHRIS WALLA & J. ROBBINS - "MERCURY"»
Posted on October 12, 2009 (3 comments)
Tags: Burning Airlines | Chris Walla | Cryptacize | Death Cab For Cutie | J. Robbins | Jawbox
Our first listen of this track came from Tegan & Sara's recent set at Rifflandia festival, where the sisters Quin debuted Tegan's "Hell," from the album Sainthood, in a church (all non-spiritual coincidences, she insisted). But when it comes to... CONTINUE READING NEW TEGAN & SARA - "HELL"»
Posted on October 6, 2009 in (16 comments)
Tags: Chris Walla | Death Cab For Cutie | Jason McGerr | Tegan And Sara | White Lies
Twilight 2: The Edge Of Reason is coming (omg), and just in time too because there are no vampire stories in pop culture these days. We're still skeptical about the Radiohead and Bon Iver tunes rumored for the soundtrack, but... CONTINUE READING DEATH CAB REVEAL NEW MOON SOUNDTRACK SINGLE»
Posted on August 27, 2009 (13 comments)
Tags: Chris Walla | Death Cab For Cutie | New Moon | Nick Harmer | Rain Machine | Twilight
NAME: Tegan & Sara PROGRESS REPORT: Listening to mixes for their sixth studio album, Sainthood, out October 27. Recorded at Sound City in Van Nuys, CA, and Two Sticks Audio in Seattle, WA. Tegan & Sara's 2007 record The Con... CONTINUE READING PROGRESS REPORT: TEGAN & SARA»
Posted on July 31, 2009 in (29 comments)
Tags: Chris Walla | Crystal Castles | Jason McGerr | Sara Quin | Tegan And Sara | Tegan Quin
After we premiered each track from Death Cab's new Open Door EP, the band set out on a North American tour that found its way to UC San Diego's RIMAC Arena last night. Photographer Andrew Youssef made the drive from... CONTINUE READING DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE/RA RA RIOT/COLD WAR KIDS @ RIMAC ARENA (UCSD CAMPUS), LA JOLLA 4/29/09»
Posted on April 30, 2009 in , , (21 comments)
Tags: Ben Gibbard | Chris Walla | Cold War Kids | Death Cab For Cutie | Ra Ra Riot | Wes Miles
It is Thursday, which means it is The Open Door's Track 4 day. In announcing this new EP, Death Cab said these Narrow Stairs-session songs weren't "castoffs," but simply that they didn't fit the mood and temperament of the LP's... CONTINUE READING NEW DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE - "I WAS ONCE A LOYAL LOVER" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on March 26, 2009 (16 comments)
Tags: Ben Gibbard | Chris Walla | Death Cab For Cutie | The Flaming Lips
The next stop on our track-a-day premiere of Death Cab's new Narrow Stairs companion Open Door EP is, fittingly, Track Two. And it's a stark shift from the happy jangle of EP opener "Little Bribes." Ben's scene-setting lyric: "Pity, take... CONTINUE READING NEW DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE - "A DIAMOND AND A TETHER" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on March 24, 2009 (33 comments)
Tags: Ben Gibbard | Chris Walla | Death Cab For Cutie | Sufjan Stevens
Today your regular bloggers have been replaced by Ben, Chris, Nick, and Jason of Death Cab For Cutie. The band's new album Narrow Stairs is out now. DCFC are not professional bloggers, so please send them tips. By Chris Walla... CONTINUE READING NEW CHRIS WALLA DEMO - "GENEVIEVE & ME"»
Posted on May 20, 2008 in , (6 comments)
Tags: Chris Walla | Death Cab For Cutie
Today your regular bloggers have been replaced by Ben, Chris, Nick, and Jason of Death Cab For Cutie. The band's new album Narrow Stairs is out now. DCFC are not professional bloggers, so please send them tips. By Chris Walla... CONTINUE READING Q&A WITH CHRIS WALLA»
Posted on May 20, 2008 in (60 comments)
Tags: Chris Walla | Death Cab For Cutie
Today your regular bloggers have been replaced by Ben, Chris, Nick, and Jason of Death Cab For Cutie. The band's new album Narrow Stairs is out now. DCFC are not professional bloggers, so please send them tips. By Chris Walla... CONTINUE READING NEW HOLD STEADY - "SEQUESTERED IN MEMPHIS"»
Posted on May 20, 2008 in (14 comments)
Tags: Chris Walla | Death Cab For Cutie | The Hold Steady
Today your regular bloggers have been replaced by Ben, Chris, Nick, and Jason of Death Cab For Cutie. The band's new album Narrow Stairs is out now. DCFC are not professional bloggers, so please send them tips. By Ben Gibbard... CONTINUE READING THE ROGER WATERS QUANDARY OR, WILL THE LAST ONE LEAVING BATTERSEA PLEASE TURN OUT THE LIGHTS?»
Posted on May 20, 2008 in , , (41 comments)
Tags: Ben Gibbard | Chris Walla | Death Cab For Cutie | Pink Floyd | Roger Waters
Death Cab are on the road, and if you spend any time on this site, you've already had a taste of some live Narrow Stairs. The band (who are now quite hirsute!) promised new songs in their Coachella set list,... CONTINUE READING DEATH CAB RELEASE DAYTROTTER SESSION, VIRAL VIDEO SITE»
Posted on April 28, 2008 in (1 comments)
Tags: Ben Gibbard | Chris Walla | Death Cab For Cutie
Gibbard never does catch up with the globe-trotting redhead who stars in this video for Narrow Stairs' stalker anthem. Not in person, anyway. DCFC tell the jammy, eight and half minute tale in a chilly warehouse, while the object of... CONTINUE READING NEW DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE VIDEO - "I WILL POSSESS YOUR HEART"»
Posted on April 10, 2008 in (25 comments)
Tags: Ben Gibbard | Chris Walla | Death Cab For Cutie
You guys had fun with our game building jokes out of Death Cab's new record title Narrow Stairs (e.g. Ned said: "How do you confine an obese person to the lower floors of a house?" -- and that's the most... CONTINUE READING NEW DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE - "I WILL POSSESS YOUR HEART"»
Posted on March 18, 2008 (66 comments)
Tags: Ben Gibbard | Chris Walla | Death Cab For Cutie
It's a good time for Walla appreciation these days -- a noteworthy Radiohead cover for OKX, great work on the awesome Tegan & Sara's LP, excitement over the forthcoming Death Cab record. It's no wonder so many cool people want... CONTINUE READING NEW CHRIS WALLA VIDEO - "SING AGAIN"»
Posted on January 29, 2008 in (24 comments)
Tags: Chris Walla | Death Cab For Cutie
We've given you bits and pieces of Chris Walla's Field Manual: The Death Cabbie's solo record's out next Tuesday on Barsuk, so now you can get a full and tasty stream. Reading through comments about the tracks we already posted, it seems some dig Walla's production work over his songwriting chops, which got us thinking about other producer-muscians like Steve Albini or Daniel Lanois (who also has new material). So, who's your favorite multi-tasking knob-turner? (We don't mean that in a perverted way. Keep it clean, bozo. Chris is watching you.)
Posted on January 24, 2008 (9 comments)
We premiered Chris Walla's lilting, much downloaded "Sing Again" a couple few weeks ago. Time for another peek at Field Manual: EW has a stream of "St. Modesto" (track 10 on the album, for those who care) that you can... CONTINUE READING NEW CHRIS WALLA - "ST. MODESTO"»
Posted on January 8, 2008 (3 comments)
Tags: Braniac | Chris Walla | Death Cab For Cutie
We all knew Ben Gibbard was a punk rocker and that Chris Walla was singing again. We even gave you a Death Cab For Cutie studio update a ways back ... but we didn't realize how close the boys were... CONTINUE READING NEW DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE ALBUM ON THE HORIZON? WE HAVE THE VIDEO AND WE'RE VOTING YES»
Posted on December 19, 2007 in , (10 comments)
Tags: Ben Gibbard | Chris Walla | Death Cab For Cutie
Considering how much Chris Walla gets around -- whether as a member of Death Cab For Cutie or producing the Decemberists, Tegan & Sara, etc -- it's not surprising it took him this long to release a solo record. When... CONTINUE READING NEW CHRIS WALLA - "SING AGAIN"»
Posted on November 14, 2007 in (4 comments)
Tags: Chris Walla | Death Cab For Cutie
Slow Fridays are good for one thing: studio progress updates! Although, today has been kind of special as far as non-news studio news goes. So, here's the trifecta... First up: Radiohead! LP7's like old faithful for reportage on the studio... CONTINUE READING UPDATE FOR CUTIE, RADIOHEAD, BJöRK»
Posted on September 7, 2007 (5 comments)
Tags: Ben Gibbard | Björk | Chris Walla | Death Cab For Cutie | Jonny Greenwood | Radiohead | Thom Yorke
Didn't expect it after our first listen, but Tegan & Sara's The Con is shaping up to be one of '07's many bright spots. Constantly catch someone spinning the irresistible cuts "I Was Married," "Relief Next To Me," "Nineteen," or... CONTINUE READING TEGAN AND SARA AND WALLA»
Posted on July 23, 2007 in (18 comments)
Tags: Chris Walla | Tegan And Sara
By now you should have all the tracks of our cover-to-cover tribute to OK Computer -- both regular and bonus -- and last time we promised one more MP3 for ya: a proper b-side, from the excellent Airbag/How Am... CONTINUE READING OKX: ONE LAST B-SIDE»
Posted on July 19, 2007 in (17 comments)
Tags: Chris Walla | David Letterman | Death Cab For Cutie | Jonny Greenwood | Radiohead | Stephen Colbert | Thom Yorke
