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Ben Gibbard

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2012

    Live Review, 5/8/12: Death Cab Grows Up with Magik*Magik Orchestra at the Fox

    Death Cab for Cutie with Magik*Magik Orchestra Youth Lagoon Tuesday, May 8, 2012 Fox Theater, Oakland Better than: Your prom and your fifteen-year high school reunion, if they happened at the same time Last night's Death Cab for Cutie concert, the first of a three-night stand at the Fox in Oakland ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2011

    Divorces Galore: Eight Musical Couples We Wish Were Still Together

    Since Monday, media everywhere has been agog at the news that Kim Kardashian and her husband of just 72 days are getting divorced. If you ask us, that union was doomed from the get-go. Anyone who watches Keeping Up With The Kardashians knows that those two barely even knew each other (Not that we wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2011

    Treasure Island Day Two: St. Vincent, Beach House, and Explosions in the Sky Successfully Suspend Reality

    Christopher VictorioSt. Vincent​ Death Cab for Cutie, Explosions in the Sky, the Hold Steady, St. Vincent, Beach House, Friendly Fires, Wild Beasts, Warpaint, the Antlers, Weekend, Thee Oh Sees October 16, 2011 Treasure Island Music Festival Better than: The other typical yuppie Sunday activi ... More >>

  • Music

    August 3, 2011

    Dntel: Show Preview

    Christopher VictorioSt. Vincent​ Death Cab for Cutie, Explosions in the Sky, the Hold Steady, St. Vincent, Beach House, Friendly Fires, Wild Beasts, Warpaint, the Antlers, Weekend, Thee Oh Sees October 16, 2011 Treasure Island Music Festival Better than: The other typical yuppie Sunday activi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

    Death Cab for Cutie Brings Codes and Keys to the Fillmore (Photos)

    Calibree PhotographyDeath Cab for Cutie​ Death Cab for Cutie The Lonely Forest June 9, 2011 @ The Fillmore Ben Gibbard and the rest of Death Cab for Cutie presented themselves to a sold-out Fillmore crowd last night, translating the songs from new album Codes and Keys to the live stage. Given ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2011

    Death Cab for Cutie on Becoming a Big-Time Band, and its "Curveball" of a New Album

    Danny ClinchDeath Cab for Cutie​ Death Cab For Cutie hits the Fillmore tonight in support of its seventh album, Codes and Keys. We sat down with frontman Ben Gibbard and bassist Nick Harmer to find out what drives Death Cab after fourteen years of making music. You started out being a lot of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2011

    Five More Ben Gibbard Benders

    Ben Gibbard, now off the sauce.​For more than a decade, Ben Gibbard has been a wildly successful musician. He's fronted for Death Cab for Cutie, was one-half of the iconic indie-electro outfit The Postal Service, and, oh yeah, married Zooey Deschanel. But during all that, he harbored a dark secret ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    Death Cab For Cutie Premieres Single-Take Music Video on Ustream Today

    ​Ben Gibbard knows you better than you know yourself. Your heart is an empty room, but someday you will be loved, maybe on the day he follows you into the dark and possesses your heart. Okay, I just creeped myself out. Point is, there's a new Death Cab For Cutie album called Codes and Keys coming ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2011

    Bay Music Links: Britney Spears in S.F., Prince Fan Gets Beat Up, Lil B in XXL, and More

    Wait. Britney ... telephone? We're confused. Anyway, she's coming to S.F. next month.​Britney Spears will perform live on Good Morning America from the Castro the day her new album is released. [SF Examiner]Man beaten up by crowd after catching Prince's guitar in Oakland. [ABC 7]How the Thee Oh Se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2010

    Friday Night: Freelance Whales Bring On Make-Out Time at the Rickshaw Stop

    Freelance Whales at the Rickshaw Stop Friday night​Freelance Whales Miniature TigersPepper Rabbit November 19, 2010 @ Rickshaw Stop Better than: Going to the zoo to see whales, tigers, and rabbits. For those of you who weren't quite satisfied by the output of one-album-and-done bedroom electro p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2010

    Now there's a Giant's Hip-Hop Anthem: DJ Amen and Prince Aries' 'Black & Orange'

    The competition for the banner song of this so-far-so-good Giants season is getting fierce, folks. Ashkon Davaran's "Don't Stop Believing" take-off may have won the official title, and Death Cab's Ben Gibbard given yesterday's national anthem honors (see above), but we've got another grand-slammin' ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 28, 2009

    D Tour

    The competition for the banner song of this so-far-so-good Giants season is getting fierce, folks. Ashkon Davaran's "Don't Stop Believing" take-off may have won the official title, and Death Cab's Ben Gibbard given yesterday's national anthem honors (see above), but we've got another grand-slammin' ... More >>

  • Music

    October 21, 2009

    Jay Farrar, Ben Gibbard, and a bad actress pay tribute to Kerouac’s Big Sur

    The competition for the banner song of this so-far-so-good Giants season is getting fierce, folks. Ashkon Davaran's "Don't Stop Believing" take-off may have won the official title, and Death Cab's Ben Gibbard given yesterday's national anthem honors (see above), but we've got another grand-slammin' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2009

    Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar Plan Kerouac Tribute Show in S.F.

    Autumn de WildeJay Farrar (left) and Ben Gibbard​We reported earlier that Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard and Son Volt's Jay Farrar teamed up on the soundtrack to a new Jack Kerouac documentary, One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur. (The movie and the soundtrack come out Oct. 20). Now th ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 2, 2009

    Rogue Wave Gains Strength

    Autumn de WildeJay Farrar (left) and Ben Gibbard​We reported earlier that Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard and Son Volt's Jay Farrar teamed up on the soundtrack to a new Jack Kerouac documentary, One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur. (The movie and the soundtrack come out Oct. 20). Now th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2009

    Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard Pay Tribute to Jack Kerouac

    ​When I interviewed Ben Gibbard back in 2007, he'd been holed up in the same cabin where Jack Kerouac wrote his famed book Big Sur. Gibbard was in Big Sur writing material for what would become the next Death Cab For Cutie record, but he was also part of the documentary One Fast Move or I'm Gone: ... More >>

  • Music

    October 22, 2008

    Death Cab will possess your vote

    ​When I interviewed Ben Gibbard back in 2007, he'd been holed up in the same cabin where Jack Kerouac wrote his famed book Big Sur. Gibbard was in Big Sur writing material for what would become the next Death Cab For Cutie record, but he was also part of the documentary One Fast Move or I'm Gone: ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2008

    Q&A: Death Cab for Cutie

    ​When I interviewed Ben Gibbard back in 2007, he'd been holed up in the same cabin where Jack Kerouac wrote his famed book Big Sur. Gibbard was in Big Sur writing material for what would become the next Death Cab For Cutie record, but he was also part of the documentary One Fast Move or I'm Gone: ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2008

    LastNight: Death Cab for Cutie at the Fillmore

    ​When I interviewed Ben Gibbard back in 2007, he'd been holed up in the same cabin where Jack Kerouac wrote his famed book Big Sur. Gibbard was in Big Sur writing material for what would become the next Death Cab For Cutie record, but he was also part of the documentary One Fast Move or I'm Gone: ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2008

    Album Review: Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs

    ​When I interviewed Ben Gibbard back in 2007, he'd been holed up in the same cabin where Jack Kerouac wrote his famed book Big Sur. Gibbard was in Big Sur writing material for what would become the next Death Cab For Cutie record, but he was also part of the documentary One Fast Move or I'm Gone: ... More >>

  • Music

    April 23, 2008

    Death Cab for Cojones

    ​When I interviewed Ben Gibbard back in 2007, he'd been holed up in the same cabin where Jack Kerouac wrote his famed book Big Sur. Gibbard was in Big Sur writing material for what would become the next Death Cab For Cutie record, but he was also part of the documentary One Fast Move or I'm Gone: ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2008

    Death Cab for Cutie Announces Spring Dates Including the Fillmore 4/23

    ​When I interviewed Ben Gibbard back in 2007, he'd been holed up in the same cabin where Jack Kerouac wrote his famed book Big Sur. Gibbard was in Big Sur writing material for what would become the next Death Cab For Cutie record, but he was also part of the documentary One Fast Move or I'm Gone: ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2008

    Top 10 Cockblocking Songs of V-Day

    ​When I interviewed Ben Gibbard back in 2007, he'd been holed up in the same cabin where Jack Kerouac wrote his famed book Big Sur. Gibbard was in Big Sur writing material for what would become the next Death Cab For Cutie record, but he was also part of the documentary One Fast Move or I'm Gone: ... More >>

  • News

    September 12, 2007

    Gimme Indie Rock!

    Local promoters take a big risk to give S.F. a music fest that will restore the city's cool cred

  • News

    September 12, 2007

    Kudos on the Newsom Comic

    Letters for Week of September 12-18, 2007

  • Music

    August 29, 2007

    Jack Kerouac's writing still influential for rock icons 50 years after On the Road

    Letters for Week of September 12-18, 2007

  • Music

    December 20, 2006

    It Was a Year Of ...

    Well, lots of things, actually

  • Music

    September 27, 2006

    Rogue Wave asks for a little help from its friends

    Well, lots of things, actually

  • Music

    August 2, 2006

    Ice ice baby!

    Well, lots of things, actually

  • Music

    February 1, 2006

    Rabbit Season

    Jenny Lewis emerges as a solo force to be reckoned with, and brings her hardscrabble past with her

  • Music

    December 7, 2005

    Department of What the Fuck?

    Jingle bells, the White Stripes smell, Ben Gibbard laid an egg

  • Music

    November 30, 2005

    Kinky pop from the Subways, protest jazz from the Liberation Music Orchestra, and godhead rock from Echo & the Bunnymen

    Jingle bells, the White Stripes smell, Ben Gibbard laid an egg

  • Music

    October 19, 2005

    Various Artists

    Stubbs the Zombie: The Soundtrack

  • Music

    September 7, 2005

    Death Cab for Cutie

    Plans

  • Music

    April 13, 2005

    13 & God

    13 & God

  • Listen Up

    March 16, 2005

    No Sympathy for the Demo

    Presenting SF Weekly's definitive guide to making it in indie rock, without actually having to make it

  • Music

    April 14, 2004

    John Vanderslice

    Cellar Door

  • Music

    March 24, 2004

    Dark Horse

    The Unicorns strike it rich with their unique brand of sullied indie-pop

  • Music

    February 11, 2004

    The Noticon

    Germany's the Notwist and Oakland's Anticon are the hottest new coupling since Bennifer

  • Music

    November 5, 2003

    True Grit

    With its latest album, Death Cab for Cutie reclaims the word "indie"

  • Music

    April 30, 2003

    Special Delivery

    The Postal Service offers up the first rocktronic masterpiece

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