Stereogum — Death Cab For Cutie are busy traveling the world in support of Kintsugi, their final album with founding member and production maestro Chris Walla and first with an outside producer, Rich Costey. The newfangled Death Cab live band has North American ... more info

Stereogum — Now that there’s a new streaming service entering the game, the usual suspects are coming out of the woodwork brandishing new opinions or rehashing old ones. Ben Gibbard threw his voice into the chorus a few months ago when everyone was shitting on... more info

Stereogum — California Sunday Magazine’s project The Thread has facilitated email conversations between Bethany Cosentino and Molly Ringwald, Al Yankovic and Scott Aukerman, and Ben Gibbard and Mark Kozelek, among many others so far. Their latest thread is bet... more info

Stereogum — If there was ever anyone that needed his wonderfully woeful voice and neat-box pop-rock fucked up by Dan Deacon’s mischievous touch, it’s Ben Gibbard. Death Cab For Cutie returned this year sans founding member Chris Walla with Kintsugi, their fi... more info

Stereogum — City of Angels choral pop group the Silver Lake Chorus (TSLC) has been blessed with some skillful song writing by the Flaming Lips, Ben Gibbard, Sia, and Bon Iver. We’ve heard “Heavy Star Movin’” penned by Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd of The ... more info

Stereogum — Musicians including Ben Gibbard, Mumford & Sons, and Lily Allen have joined our own Michael Nelson in shitting on Tidal, the expensive new “high-quality” streaming music service from Jay Z and his famous friends. Now it’s Steve Albini’s turn!... more info

Stereogum — Death Cab For Cutie put out a new record this year, Ben Gibbard’s post-divorce effort Kintsugi, so perhaps that’s why he’s newly concerned about the future of streaming in the music industry. Following the roll-out of Tidal — Jay-Z’s supers... more info

Stereogum — Death Cab For Cutie are back in full force with this year’s brand new album Kintsugi, and three of the group’s members stopped by NPR’s offices for the station’s signature Tiny Desk concert series. Frontman Ben Gibbard, bassist Nick Harmer an... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Coming soon: Waywards and Meansigns, "Finnegans Wake collaboratively set to music, unabridged." Ben Gibbard listed his favorite Death Cab for Cutie songs at Vulture. VICE profiled author Colin Barrett. Stream a new My Morning Jacket song. The Million... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Ben Gibbard never thought he'd find himself where he did at the end of 2012. more info