Posts Tagged: Death Cab For Cutie

Listen / Music — 13 Comments
23
Sep 09

Death Cab For Cutie – Meet Me On The Equinox

Death Cab For Cutie Meet Me On The Equinox listen

If you’re not already a participant in the Twilight craze, do want a reason to express some interest in the upcoming sequel, New Moon?

How about the fact that Death Cab For Cutie wrote a new song for New Moon soundtrack? “Meet Me on the Equinox,” is not their best song to date but I can already picture Kristin Stewart running toward Rob Patterson in dire despair. The song reflects desperation and passion, in signature Death Cab For Cutie melodrama… which is exactly what Twilight is all about. The real reason this song is somewhat appealing is because it captures the struggles that come with new beginnings and sorrowful endings.

And to anyone that’s upset about Death Cab involvement in the up coming film, I just want you to know… selling out is the new black.

Just look at the New Moon Soundtrack’s track listing: new tracks by the Killers, Lykke Li, Thom Yorke, and Grizzly Bear? A duet with Bon Iver and St. Vincent?! Can we start the campaign for album of the year for New Moon? … I’m only semi-joking.

Read on to listen to “Meet Me On The Equinox” and for the full track-listing for New Moon. Continue reading →

Feature / Music — 23 Comments
15
Sep 09

Best Album of 2003 Poll

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Moving onto the fourth year of the decade, we continue to rely on your votes to find the best albums of each year. We’re taking an objective and fresh look at finding our favorite albums of the last 10 years.

As always, I’ve listed the 10 best albums, in accordance to top critics like the undeniable Village Voice Pazz & Jop Poll, The Onion (A.V. Club), Pitchfork, PopMatters, and Q Magazine.

Please vote for the album you think was the best in 2003. If your choice isn’t on here, we’d love to see it in the comments section (though, we’d appreciate if you’d vote for your favorite on the list anyway). Here are 2003’s finalists:

A. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever To Tell, “Y Control”
B. OutKast: Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, “The Way You Move”
C. The White Stripes: Elephant, “Seven Nation Army”
D. Radiohead: Hail To The Thief ,”2+2=5”
E. The Shins: Chutes Too Narrow, “So Says I”
F. Dizzee Rascal: Boy In Da Corner, “I Luv U”
G. Death Cab For Cutie: Transatlanticism, “The Sound of Settling”
H. Sufjan Stevens: Michigan, “Holland”
I. Blur: Think Tank, “Out Of Time”
J. Four Tet: Rounds “She Moves She”

Trust me, 2003 was one of the hardest lists to make.

Listen / Mixtapes / Music / Podcasts — 37 Comments
9
Jul 09

pmaCAST #16: For Summer Only

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There are many reasons why I feel that summertime is the best time of the year, and most of them are here on this playlist. Spanning thirty-six songs (!!), this 16th pmaCAST — and our longest podcast ever, clocking in at over 2 hours and 10 minutes — is all about the tunes that make a perfect summertime listen. Download this here or on iTunes (via the links above), put it on your iPod, put it on a mixtape-shaped flash-drive (seriously, buy one) and give it to your friends, play it at a beach party — do something with it!

pmaCAST #16 The “For Summer Only” Episode Tracklist
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Music / News — 1 Comment
22
Apr 09

Hannah Montana Hits #1, Silversuns Debut High. KOL, YYYs, DCFC Sell, Too!

After missing the No. 1 spot on it’s debut week, The Hannah Montana Movie’s Soundtrack has finally topped the American Album charts, thanks to strong Box Office numbers. In just 12 days of release, the movie has grossed nearly $60 million in the US. This week’s big debuts are Diddy’s Day26 and their newest, Forever In A Day, which bowed at No. 2 with 115,209 copies sold. Silversun Pickups also debut high with their newest, Swoon, selling almost 49,000 copies in the first 7 days of release (No. 5).

The rest of the top 10 is typical — though I am impressed with the Twilight Soundtrack (No. 4 and features Muse, Iron & Wine,  Black Ghosts, et al) and Taylor Swift’s Fearless (No. 10). After months of being on the shelves, they are still moving Top 10 numbers, selling 56,618 and 31,209 respectively. Sidenote: Wonder why Radiohead’s “15 Step” wasn’t included in the Twilight soundtrack, the song was playing throughout the entire closing credits. What? Radiohead licensed the song for worldwide play in the movie, but doesn’t want to bank on all of these Soundtrack sales? That’s just stupid… As of January 2009, the Twilight soundtrack has sold 2 million copies world wide.

In other sales news,  Kings of Leon is outselling Beyonce with their Only By The Night. The set sold nearly 19,000 this week, landing at No. 18. Also, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are up nearly 20 spots this week, thanks to TV appearances on just about every late night show in existance. This week, It’s Blitz sold 12,478 and reentered the Top 50 at No. 32. Further down the chart, Death Cab For Cutie’s new Open Door EP debuts at No. 34 with just over 12,000 copies sold.

via Hits Daily Double

Album Reviews / MP3 / Music / Reviews — 4 Comments
31
Mar 09

Death Cab For Cutie- Open Door EP Review

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The great thing about Death Cab For Cutie is that even though their sound keeps expanding, and their fan base keeps growing, they are still the same band, true to their roots and making just as excellent music as ever. Over the past week, Stereogum has released all five songs from Death Cab’s brand new B-Sides album, Open Door. They are tunes that the band recorded but didn’t quite fit in with Narrow Stairs’ flow. Thankfully, they fit their own flow, as Gibbard and company have released one of the most satisfying B-Side albums in recent memory.

EP opener “Little Bribes” recalls  The Decemberists’ “Rake Song” with less grotesque lyrics, a hard-rocking Gibbard doing his thing over an aggressive acoustic guitar riff. You can already tell that this song wouldn’t have fit as well on Narrow Stairs; it has a vibe and a groove all its own, but it’s a great one. It’s a genuine blues track, with some clever, fun lyrics and a continuation of the expansion in sound that Death Cab showed on Stairs. The emo, reflective band of yesteryear is gone. The new Death Cab, well, rocks. Continue reading →

Headline Shorties / Listen / Music / New Releases / News — 2 Comments
10
Mar 09

Death Cab Readying New EP

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As a big fan of Narrow Stairs, I can’t wait to hear four more songs that Gibbard and friends cooked up in the recording process. From Nick Harmer, a description:

“When we finished Narrow Stairs, there were four extra songs that, because we were trying to put together an album, we ended up not including them — it’s not like they’re castoffs or anything; they’re part of the Narrow Stairs experience … They needed to have a proper home, and the EP is it. There’s going to be four songs on it, plus the original version of ‘Talking Bird’ that features Ben singing and playing the ukulele. It’ll be out this year, I think. And then, you know, back to the grind again.”

While the “Talking Bird” altered version doesn’t interest me too much, the rest does. I’m pretty pumped, and glad that a band like Death cab has found a way to keep their songs fresh for so long. (Thanks to Stereogum)

MP3 / Music / Podcasts — 14 Comments
14
Feb 09

pmaCAST #7: The “Valentine’s Day 2009″ Episode

pmaCAST #7: The Valentines Day 2009 Episode mp3

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! You know I had to join in on the cheese and pull this week’s pmaCAST early with a Valentine’s Day-themed episode!  Hopefully some of you enjoy it enough to listen to it with someone special tonight. Just maybe.

Because I assume that 99.9% of the movie-going population will be watching some sort of chick flick (I’m not ashamed to admit that I liked He’s Just No That Into You, and will probably watch Confessions of a Shopoholic tonight), I wanted to structure this playlist like 99.9% of the chick flicks out there. So I’ve come up with a story that I hope would play out well in songs. Or maybe you want to see this as a hopeful soundtrack to some V-Day movie coming out in 2010. Either way, here it is…

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5
Feb 09

Feist – Train Song (w/Ben Gibbard), Service Bell (w/Grizzly Bear)

Feist Train Song (w/Ben Gibbard), Service Bell (w/Grizzly Bear) listen

Feist recently lent her voice for Dark Was The Night, a great cause raising awareness and money for HIV/Aids. She appeared on two of the 31 songs that span the 2 discs that make up the compilation.

The first song Feist appears in, “Train Song” features vocals from Death Cab For Cutie/Postal Service vocalist Ben Gibbard. You know how I love boy-girl songs, and I can’t picture a more perfect vocal coupling than Feist and Ben Gibbard. Well maybe Gibbard’s real-life fiance Zooey Deschanel — but I’ll leave my dreams for the dreamers.

Someone must have told Feist  how much I love boy-girl songs, because later in the compilation, she the mic with Grizzly Bear, in the haunting and beautiful “Service Bell.” A lot of the wettest of my indie music dreams were fulfilled just now. Seriously.

I suggest you preview the songs below, then make sure to preorder the album, it’s out 2/17.  Continue reading →

MP3 / Music / Remixes — 8 Comments
27
Jan 09

Ra Ra Riot – Ghost Under Rocks (Passion Pit remix)

Ra Ra Riot Ghost Under Rocks (Passion Pit remix) mp3

Even though I’ve given them some love, I don’t feel like I’ve given Ra Ra Riot the love they deserve on PMA. “Ghost Under Rocks” is made up of  everything I loved about Ra Ra Riot’s debut. The life affirming air of it all, the dirge-esque feel of the lyrics; almost like a memorial to a lost friend, or brooding ovation to the people who have always been there through thick and thin.

All this is taken to the next level on this captivating remix. When I told you guys to watch out for Passion Pit in 2009 (just in case you missed their single in late 2008), I wasn’t kidding. This is just a taste of the monsterous and magical things you can expect from them on their debut LP. And really, if you don’t like this, you need to get new ears, pronto.

Come and grab the remix, you know you want to… Continue reading →

Best of 2008 / Feature / MP3 / Music — 45 Comments
1
Jan 09

Pretty Much Amazing’s Best Albums of 2008

Pretty Much Amazings Best Albums of 2008 best of 2008
2008 was quite a year for music. Maybe it wasn’t as great as 2007, but we made due with what we had. I didn’t connect with an album in 2008 the way I connected with In Rainbows, or Neon Bible, or Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. Those were albums that had me falling in love with every track listen after listen. However, the following twenty albums are my favorite albums of 2008 and ranking them was somewhat painful/futile — which is why we came to the conclusion that numbering year-end lists was completely sacrilegious and spat in the face of music lists everywhere.

After deciding to trash the option of numbering this list, I went with dividing my Top 20 albums into 3 categories: Big Albums by Big Names, Newcomers, and Eye Openers. Are you ready? Here are Pretty Much Amazing’s 20 Favorite Albums of 2008.

Leave your top albums in the comments, if you’d like! We’d love to hear them! Oh and if you have a blog and have posted a year end list, drop the link in the comments as well!
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