Death Cab for Cutie Tickets

Death Cab For Cutie
While still in the capacity of guitar player for the band Pinwheel and recording under the name All-Time Quarterback, Death Cab for Cutie began as a solo project of Ben Gibbard. It was the success of a cassette titled You Can Play These Songs with Chords, which decided for Gibbard, the expanding of the band into a complete project.

He recruited Chris Walla (who had also worked on the cassette) as a guitarist, Nick Harmer as bass guitarist, and Nathan Good to play drums. Death Cab for Cutie was officially formed at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington, and lyrics from early songs include local references that were important to the band's development.

Musical Style
Death Cab for Cutie's music is typically described as indie. The band's music has been described as "a literate, whispery style, the kind of stuff that normally sounds better in headphones than in large venues". Gibbard's voice has also been described as "plaintive boy-next-door" and that his high tenor voice is "remarkable, vulnerable, and Zen-like".

Rolling Stone reviewed Transatlanticism and commented that it was "melodic, melancholy songs about feeling both smart and confused, hopelessly romantic but wary of love." The album has also been described as "perfectly paced song cycles about love wracked by distance and time's march." Entertainment Weekly commented on the music on the album, Plans, saying, "The lush arrangements are long on hothouse organs and pianos, but short on the squirmy guitars and squirrelly beats that, on Gibbard's best work, offset his sweet voice and borderline-maudlin poetics with a sense of emotional danger."

Short History
In August 1998, the album, LP Something About Airplanes was released and was favorably reviewed in the independent music scene and in 2000 they released We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes. Changes in band membership occurred with Nathan Good leaving during the production of this album, and replaced by Schorr. In 2003, there was another change of drummer, with Jason McGerr of Eureka Farm replacing Schorr. The October 2003 album, Transatlanticism was quite a hit and Tracks from the album appeared in the soundtracks of the television shows The O.C., Six Feet Under, CSI: Miami and Californication. The 2005 movies Wedding Crashers and Mean Creek also included album tracks.

In November 2004, Death Cab for Cutie parted ways with its long time label Barsuk Records, and signed a "long-term worldwide deal" with Atlantic Records. due to insecurity and nervousness, the band encouraged its fans to downowd songs from the internet.

The band released a touring DVD titled Drive Well, Sleep Carefully, in 2005. Known for their contributions to animal rights, the band is supporting the activist group PETA in giving away copies of the DVD to promote animal rights.

Their new album, titled Narrow Stairs, was released on May 12, 2008. In a recent Billboard piece, the band promised the album to be a "curve ball", and, though it will have slower songs, they are promising some surprises. In an album review, MTV writer James Montgomery said that although "Death Cab for Cutie had gone insane," he also believes that it could make "an early contender for the best album of 2008." This album was their first album to reach #1 on the Billboard 200 chart.