KEXP Seattle — A very cool piece of Northwest history has emerged today. Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie has shared a recording of their very first show in Bellingham at a house venue called the Pacer House from November 22, 1997. Gibbard’s friend Trevor Adams... more info

Stereogum — Frankie Rose is the latest artist to cover an album in full for Turntable Kitchen's Sounds Delicious vinyl subscription series. Previous artists to participate include Quilt, Ben Gibbard, Mutual Benefit, Foxygen's Jonathan Rado, and Yumi Zouma. Fresh... more info

Stereogum — Rhode Island's annual Newport Folk Festival went down over the weekend, and the lineup included Wilco, Fleet Foxes, Regina Spektor, Ben Gibbard, Angel Olsen, Margaret Glaspy, Big Thief, and many more. John Prine headlined the final day of the fest, a... more info

Stereogum — For Turntable Kitchen's monthly vinyl subscription serious Sounds Delicious, in which one artist covers an entire album by another artist, Death Cab For Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard took on Teenage Fanclub's 1991 classic Bandwagonesque, the sighing jan... more info

Chorus.fm — Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie sat down with Stereogum: We’ve been demoing some songs here and there with Dave [Depper] and Zack [Rae], who are gonna be a part of this next record, people who are members of the band now. I feel like they know o... more info

Stereogum — It shouldn't surprise anyone that Ben Gibbard's favorite band is Teenage Fanclub, another ostensibly alt-rock-identified bunch of formalist squares whose records are as crafty and delicately layered as Death Cab For Cutie's. But his new solo take on ... more info

KEXP Seattle — Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard announced in December that he was covering Teenage Fanclub‘s 1991 album Bandwagonesque in its entirety. Today, he released his version of “The Concept.” Gibbard explained why he was covering that particular a... more info

Chorus.fm — Ben Gibbard covered “The Concept” by Teenage Fanclub for NPR. more info

Stereogum — Ben Gibbard is the latest artist to take a crack at Turntable Kitchen's full-length album cover series Sounds Delicious. (Previous participants include Mutual Benefit, Foxygen's Jonathan Rado, and Yumi Zouma.) The Death Cab For Cutie frontman is cove... more info

KEXP Seattle — Last night Death Cab For Cutie played a benefit show for the ACLU and Planned Parenthood at the Paramount. During their performance they paid tribute to Chris Cornell by covering Soundgarden’s “Fell On Black Days.” Before launching into the son... more info