Death Cab for Cutie

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Recent Role:
Themselves on Last Call with Carson Daly
Gender:
Male
Birthplace:
Bellingham, WA
AKA:
Benjamin Gibbard, Christopher Walla, Nicholas Harmer, Jason McGerr
While Ben Gibbard was the guitar player for a band named Pinwheel he started Death Cab for Cutie as a solo project.

Gibbard's first release as Death Cab for Cutie was a cassette titled "You Can Play These Songs With Chords". With the unexpected success of the release Gibbard decided to expand the band into a complete group.



Christopher Walla was recruited as an electric guitarist along with Nicholas Harmer on Bass and Nathan Good as the drummer. With the new formation of Death Cab for Cutie they released the LP "Something About Airplanes" in 1988. With





… More this LP getting good reviews the band started recording the next "We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes". But while recording Nathan Good left the band and Gibbard played drums for the rest of the songs recorded after Good left. Micheal Schorr was the next drummer brought in to replace good and first appeared the E.P. "Forbidden Love" in 2000. Schorr stayed with the band for the LP "Photo Album" released in 2001 and the E.P. "Stability".



Jason McGerr of the band "Eureka Farm" was next in line to take on the role as drummer in 2003. This was the same year Death Cab for Cutie released their best selling album "Transatlanticism" which sold 225,000 copies in its first year.



In spring of 2004, the band recorded a live album titled The John Byrd E.P., named for their sound engineer. The E.P. was not released until 2005 as their last release under the contract of Barsuk Records as in 2004 Death Cab for Cutie signed a "long-term worldwide deal" with Atlantic Records.



The bands first album release under Atlantic Records came in August 2005 with "Plans". Plans was well recieved by critics and fans alike and recieved a nomination for Best Alternative Album of 2005 at the Grammy Awards.



In early 2006, the band announced the upcoming release of "Directions", eleven short films each directed by a different person and inspired by songs from the Plans album. The DVD for Directions was released in April 2006 after each film had been posted on the official website. In March iTunes began selling the videos in format for playing on the iPod. Each film was shown on MTV2's show "Subterranean" over a whole hour, including interviews with the band.

Chris Walla announced work had begun on the sixth album in October 2007. "Narrow Stairs" is due for release May 13, 2008. Influences for this album are said to include synth-punk band "Brainiac".

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    Death Cab for Cutie is one of my all time favourite bands hide show

    I haven't known about Death Cab for Cutie for very long, they have only come to my attention due to their regular mentions on one of my favourite shows "The O.C."
    I find the lyrics arevery cleverly written and well sung by Benjamin Gibbard, the main man that created Death Cab for Cutie. But his talents are extremely well backed up with Chris Walla on Electric Guitar, Nick Harmer on Bass and Jason McGerr on Drums.
    It's very hard for me to pick my favourite one of their songs, it's a close call between "Soul Meets Body", "I Will Follow You into the Dark", "Someday You Will be Loved", "Crooked Teeth", "The Sound of Settling", "Transatlanticism" and "A Lack of Colour" (Hey, I did say I liked them a lot) but to have to pick just one then I would say Transatlanticism because of the great lyrics and it's beautiful sound.
    I look forward to hearing more from them.

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