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Indie darlings Death Cab for Cutie will hit the road this spring, starting with an April 7 performance at the Tower Theatre in Upper Darby, PA. Ra Ra Riot will open for the entire tour, which Cold War Kids will support Death Cab in April followed by Matt Costa in May. Death Cab will weave its way through the nation with stops in Miami (at the Langerado Festival), Washington, D.C., Louisville, Memphis, Omaha, Chicago, Sacramento, Austin, New Orleans, Nashville, Atlanta and more. Check out http://www.stubhub.com/death-cab-for-cutie-tickets for Death Cab for Cutie tickets.

Giving hope to indie rock bands everywhere, Death Cab for Cutie went from underground indie gem to Grammy-nominated rock band at the blink of an eye. Death Cab for Cutie originated as a side project for singer/guitarist Ben Gibbard, who was an engineering student at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. Gibbard, who was a part-time student and part-time musician, took a break from his power pop band Pinwheel, which was enjoying local success, to record solo material in the summer of 1997 with producer Chris Walla. The resulting eight-song cassette titled You Can Play These Songs with Chords was a local sensation and Gibbard subsequently assembled a band within his group of friends.

With drummer Nathan Good, bassist Nick Harmer (Gibbard's roommate) and Walla on guitar (he would later produce the majority of Death Cab's releases,) Gibbard christened his new group Death Cab for Cutie, taking the name from a song by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. The quartet signed a record deal with the Seattle-based label Barsuk Records and released their studio debut, Something About Airplanes, in 1998. The album featured a handful of re-recorded tracks from the You Can Play These Songs with Chords cassette and revealed Death Cab for Cutie to be a dreamy pop confection with a sound akin to Built to Spill. Gibbard continued to enjoy side success with his other group the Postal Service as Death Cab for Cutie began to gain popularity.

In 2000 We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes was released (Good exited the lineup before its completion and Michael Schorr came on board,) followed by The Forbidden Love EP and The Photo Album LP (Death Cab's third full-length), both in 2001. Barsuk re-released You Can Play These Songs with Chords with 10 additional tracks before the group's most polished effort yet, Transatlanticism, revealed a new drummer, Jason McGerr, the following year. TV producer Josh Schwartz liked what he heard and played songs from Death Cab's Transatlanticism on his hit show The O.C., which signaled the apex of the indie band's popularity as kids everywhere began listening to Seth Cohen's (a main character on the popular teen drama) favorite band.

After releasing the live disc The John Byrd E.P., Death Cab for Cutie inked a major label recording deal with Atlantic Records in 2004 and issued Plans soon afterward, watching it skyrocket to number four. The album eventually achieved platinum status, earned a Grammy nod and made Death Cab for Cutie the indie band of the day, with a cover on Spin Magazine and an appearance on Saturday Night Live to boot. In May 2008 Death Cab released their major-label follow-up, the darker album Narrow Stairs. Narrow Stairs debuted at number one (its release coincided with Walla's solo album Field Manual) and spawned popular single “Cath.” The band's upcoming tour is in support of Narrow Stairs so hurry up and get your Death Cab for Cutie tickets soon or risk missing the band when they stop in a town near you!

Death Cab For Cutie

For an indie band with a serious poppy sound, Death Cab for Cutie is doing pretty well raking in the dough via mainstream tours and albums. The group recently announced their plans to support their 2008 album Narrow Stairs with a spring concert, hitting up Japan (Nagoya, Tokyo and Osaka) and Australia (Freemantle, Adelaide, Melbourne, Newtown and Brisbane) before making a few US appearances in March. As the group's first number one album, Narrow Stairs promotion is well worth the effort and move from their current cult status to mainstream rockers. Selling over 144,000 copies in its first week, Narrow Stairs follow up other mellow indie rockers like Dashboard Confessional as Death Cab for Cutie slowly make their way to superstardom.

For those who have been longtime fans of this quartet from Bellingham, WA it shouldn't be a massive shock that the guys are finally seeing radio play on your favorite alternative stations. The guys, who have been together since 1997, exude an effortlessness that eradicates any sense that they aren't hardworking. “The landscape of the thing [aka the album] is way, way more lunar than the urban meadow sort of thing that has been happening for the last couple of records,” Chris Walla, Death Cab's guitarist, said to Billboard. “[It's also] louder and more dissonant and…I think abrasive would be a good word to use.” Whether or not an abrasive touch led to such mainstream mania for the men who ‘posses' our hearts', it's clear that here is much more to come.

Along with the newly toned Ben Gibbard (who is engaged to actress and She & Him woman Zooey Deschanel), the guys are adding up Huntington Beach singer and songwriter Matt Costa to their lineup, fulfilling every southern California's mellow ideals that sweet soulful music mixed with acoustic guitars and a rustic voice is an ideal concert, thus making Death Cab for Cutie tickets a hot commodity as the days pass and more sunshine reveals that http://www.stubhub.com/death-cab-for-cutie-tickets is selling their concert event.

If headlining their own jaunt in Japan (followed by North America) isn't enough, then the Death Cab guys must really be reeling in the success as their single “Grapevine Fires” from Narrow Stairs finds itself on the Barack Obama inauguration album. The album, tentatively titled Change is Now: Renewing America's Promise, also includes tracks from Will.I.Am, Wilco, Lenny Kravitz and more. The guys are also involved in productions for the Dark was the Night album in support of the Red Hot Organization (front man Gibbard worked with Feist for “The Train Song”). Continuing their rise from small time act to Grammy nominated kings, their single “Love Song” also appears on the Sweetheart compilation sold exclusively at North American Starbucks venues, a future rarity as albums have all but been banned from the coffee conglomerate.

The men plan on starting their stint at the Langerado Music Festival March 7th before hitting up a few legendary venues in Philadelphia, Washington DC, Louisville, Memphis and more as they continue to make mainstream dreams a reality.

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