The Final Cover is Revealed, As is the Rest of the Issue's Content
Dec 11, 2009By Mark Redfern
Under the Radar's Best of the Decade Issue will be hitting stores on December 18th. The cover features five notable indie musicians from different bands all photographed together. Every day this week we have been revealing a different cover artist building up to today's reveal of the final cover. More
By now, New Moon has been out for a full four days —so you've seen if at least four times right? Well, in case you're not among the more ambitious, Death Cab for Cutie stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live to fan the flames of vampire mania with their new single "Meet Me On the Equinox," featured on the The Twilight Saga: New Moon Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
Death Cab for Cutie's Twilight Song Now Streaming Online
Sep 14, 2009By Laura Studarus
As previously reported, Death Cab for Cuite member Ben Gibbard and Son Volter Jay Farrar have collaborated on an album inspired by beat poet Jack Kerouac titled One Fast Move Or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur—due out October 20th. Now the two are heading out on tour. We have the dates in full. Death Cab for Cutie's Twilight song is also now streaming online. More
File this one under “news you can sink your teeth fangs into.” Today, Seattle darlings Death Cab for Cutie were confirmed as part of the New Moon soundtrack. The band has written an exclusive song for the soundtrack to the Twilight sequel. More
Death Cab for Cutie is currently on the road alongside Ra Ra Riot and Matt Costa (with Cold War Kids as the opener during the first half of the tour). While on tour Death Cab's vocalist Ben Gibbard doesn't do much with his available free time. The things he does do, however, he commits to with consuming sincerity. Aside from raiding the inventory of numerous cities' record shops, with the new season of Major League Baseball starting up, Gibbard has been living in a state of nine-inning increments: watching games, checking the latest stats, and listening to all kinds of sports commentary. He's even managed to get out to an actual ballpark, recently catching the Twins face off against the Blue Jays in Minneapolis. More
There’s the “next big thing” buzz band, riding a wave of hype that becomes more important than the music they make. And then there’s the band with a hard-earned indie rock pedigree that is making the integrity-risking move of jumping to a major label, a move that is greeted with suspicion by anyone from the keeping-it-real old guard that equates corporate involvement as a contaminant that endangers any honest expression. In 2006, Death Cab for Cutie learned that having a story that’s too good to ignore can drown out all other subplots. More
Director of Drive Well, Sleep Carefully: On the Road With Death Cab for Cutie
Aug 01, 2005By Matt Fink
Justin Mitchell is the producer and director of the Death Cab for Cutie tour documentary Drive Well, Sleep Carefully: On the Road With Death Cab for Cutie, which was recently released on DVD by Plexifilm. More
Before they hit the big time and had money coming out of their ears, Death Cab For Cutie toured in a van, slept on floors and played small, smoky clubs rather than thousand-seater theaters and arenas. And, in between records (which were generally superior to their more recent work) they put out stop gap EPs to keep the bills paid and fans satiated between full-lengths. So now on the heels of last year's Narrow Stairs LP comes The Open Door EP, with four songs culled from the Stairs sessions and a ukulele-backed demo-version of Stairs' "Talking Bird." More
