There was a quite a hubbub (God, I hate that word) recently about the likes of Death For Cutie, Bon Iver, and Thom Yorke possibly setting out on a tour of the U.S. of A.’s Hot Topic stores in support of the New Moon soundtrack. Well, part of that scandal is kinda true. Kinda.
ShockHound (a Hot Topic-owned site) reports that the Twilight Saga: New Moon Talent Tour is totes launching next week in Hollywood, but the big stars (Death Cab, Band of Skulls) are only performing at the first show. Anya Marina or Hurricane Bells, however, will be at the remaining shows. There will also be a Q&A with cast members, including that guy from the movie and that girl, as well as those other guys and girls from the movie as well.
Here’s the full schedule, so mark your calendars… in blood! Muahahaha. And I’m spent:
Sorry to bombard everyone with tour date news today, but this one’s too cool to pass up. Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard and Son Volt’s Jay Farrar are taking their upcoming batch of Jack Kerouac-inspired songs, One Fast Move or I’m Gone, on a brief road (plane) trip for four gigs in LA, New York City, San Francisco, and Chicago later this month, PlugInMusic reports.
What’s more, their backup band will include Death Cab bassist Nick Harmer, Son Volt’s Mark Spencer, and Jon Wurster of Mountain Goats and Superchunk. Tickets for these concerts supposedly already went on sale, but I can only find a link for the LA concert here. Based on our first listen from the album, I’d say these gigs will be epic.
Check out the Gibbard/Farrar pseudo supergroup’s 4-city trek below:
10/23 - El Rey Theatre - Los Angeles, CA 10/24 - Bimbo’s 365 Club - San Francisco, CA 10/26 - Lincoln Hall - Chicago, IL 10/28 - Webster Hall - New York, NY
Still no audio from Thom Yorke’s or Bon Iver’s contributions to the New Moon soundtrack, but we finally have more than a snippet of Death Cab For Cutie’s lead off single, “Meet Me On The Equinox.” Check out the full song here or embedded below.
Meanwhile, watch Death Cab’s resident Twilight fanboy Chris Walla discuss the “Edward vs. Jacob” debate while Ben Gibbard looks on with a bit of a smirk on his face thataway. Oh, we can’t all be cool like you, Mr. Deschanel.
The future of the Postal Service may be uncertain, as Ben Gibbard said recently that it isn’t really a priority and could end up being the indie Chinese Democracy, but it looks like we’ll be getting a different Death Cab for Cutie side project this fall. Son Volt’s Jay Farrar has revealed that a short session with Gibbard turned into a larger project that will possibly be announced later this year.
“I did work with Ben on this recording project, which started out as each of us contributing songs to a documentary about Jack Kerouac,” Farrar told Riverfront Times’ Annie Zaleski. “We both wound up in the studio together, just sort of decided to take a step further and record a whole batch of songs. It’s kind of evolved into a real project. I guess there aren’t a whole lot of details about it yet, but it’s in the works, and it could possibly come out in the fall, like around October — which I think is a Jack Kerouac anniversary of sorts.”
Photos from the recording sessions for the documentary One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur can be seen on the film’s official site here, including the publicist’s claim that “Farrar and Gibbard’s partnership seems to have been ordained.” Tom Waits and Sage Francis also contributed to the documentary, which makes me kind of wish they had joined the Gibbard/Farrar collaboration as well, giving all these supergroups of late a run for their money.
Ben Gibbard’s engagement to Zooey Deschanel was the real-life indie nerd equivalent of Brian Krakow dating Angela Chase on My So-Called Life. So it’s no wonder Gibbard and fellow Death Cab for Cutie member Nick Harmer are seizing the moment to talk some trash about Angela’s ex Jordan Catalano. I mean, Jared Leto.
“Jared Leto and his band 30 Seconds to Mars — he’s acting the part,” Harmer told The Big Takeover (via Spinner). Then Ben Gibbard chimed in with more specifics: “He’s a professional actor in music; so there’s no way to feel any sincerity about his position as a musician.”
Gibbard went on to say that Leto’s schtick as the guyliner-donning frontman of 30 Second to Mars could be boiled down to simply “acting what you think a rock star should act like.” Harmer adds that Leto’s fans then believe the stunt, saying to themselves, “Oh, that’s what rock stars do: they wear eyeliner.”
Don’t they realize that real rock stars ride their bicycles in circles and take pictures for the yearbook? Nick Harmer does end the rant with some praise for their pasty indie brethren: “I think Jack White — he’s savvy as all get out with the media. But he also just has this magic around him. Conor Oberst is another one for me. They’re able to kind of be one inside of the other.”
There was a quite a hubbub (God, I hate that word) recently about the likes of Death For Cutie, Bon Iver, and Thom Yorke possibly setting out on a tour of the U.S. of A.’s Hot Topic stores in support of the New Moon soundtrack. Well, part of that scandal is kinda true. Kinda.
Sorry to bombard everyone with tour date news today, but this one’s too cool to pass up. Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard and Son Volt’s Jay Farrar are taking their 
The future of the Postal Service may be uncertain, as Ben Gibbard 
Ben Gibbard’s engagement to Zooey Deschanel was the real-life indie nerd equivalent of Brian Krakow dating Angela Chase on 
