Showing All "Chris Walla" Posts
Aug 5th, 2010 11 Comments
Washington State foursome the Lonely Forest caught the eye/ear of Death Cab For Cutie's Chris Walla, who not only signed them to his new label, Trans, but also produced, engineered, and mixed their…   Read Story »
Nov 19th, 2009 14 Comments
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…   Read Story »
Nov 3rd, 2009 16 Comments
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…   Read Story »
Oct 20th, 2009 9 Comments
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.   Read Story »
Oct 12th, 2009 3 Comments
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.   Read Story »
Oct 6th, 2009 16 Comments
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…   Read Story »
Aug 27th, 2009 13 Comments
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…   Read Story »
Jul 31st, 2009 29 Comments
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…   Read Story »
Apr 30th, 2009 21 Comments
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…   Read Story »
Mar 26th, 2009 16 Comments
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…   Read Story »


































