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L.A. Times - Entertainment — KROQ's annual Weenie Roast festival has always balanced brains and brawn in its selections of rock and roll acts. For 2015, they've dialed back on muscly skate punk in favor of some more grandiose indie rock. 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

Time — The band tells TIME about the inspirations for their new album, out March 31 more info

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

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Brooklyn Vegan — Death Cab for Cutie are a week away from releasing Kintsugi, their eighth album overall, last with guitarist Chris Walla, and first not produced by Walla (Rich Costey handled production instead). It's due 3/31 via Atlantic, and after revealing... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets for the Noel Gallagher show at Webster Hall go on sale today at 10AM. Tickets for the Spoon show at Kings Theatre go on sale today at 10AM. Tickets for the Life of Agony show at The Wick... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Death Cab at Beacon Theatre in 2012 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) We already knew that Death Cab for Cutie's next NYC show would be Madison Square Garden, and today they announced that it would happen at MSG on September... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — words and photo by Melissa Presti Death Cab for Cutie have an upcoming tour with The Antlers in support of their forthcoming album Kintsugi, but ahead of all that they squeezed in a last-minute, intimate one-off at NYC's Music Hall... more info