KEXP Seattle — Just in time for their Sasquatch! headlining spot, longtime Seattle favorites Death Cab for Cutie have announced their follow-up to 2009′s acclaimed Narrow Stairs on their website. The new one is called Codes and Keys, slated for release May 31st v... more info

melophobe — Sasquatch 2011’s line-up was announced earlier and I am 100 percent super excitably stoked that I am going to be living in Washington when it happens. As you can see from the poster above, on Memorial Day weekend bands such as Death Cab for Cutie, ... more info

The Culture Of Me — If you wish that Hayley Williams and her Paramore cohorts would listen to more of the Something About Airplanes-era Death Cab for Cutie rather than too much of the any-era Good Charlotte, Midwestern indie pop outfit Now, Now are your ticket to ride. ... more info

Music News Net — MUSIC NEWS - Death Cab For Cutie have a title for their Spring 2011 (date tbd) album release. The new set, their seventh studio album, will be called Codes And Keys and will be out via Atlantic Records. Bassist Nick... more info

Guardian Music — After years of honing their tight harmonies, southern Californians Local Natives are breaking out. But they've suffered a few comparisons too manyImagine a band that sings harmonies like Fleet Foxes. Whose arrangements twist and turn like Grizzly Bea... more info

Stereogum — The next Death Cab album is “not a guitar-based record … we’ve been into vintage keyboards and playing with that palette.” So says Ben Gibbard of DCFC’s Narrow Stairs follow-up, expected next Spring, set to feature 12-13 songs. He claims Br... more info

Silent Uproar — Chris Walla recently told Spin that Death Cab for Cutie are "working in fits and starts" on the follow-up to 2008's Narrow Stairs. He reported the band is "trying on all the outfits with the songs," including stripping songs down to two acoustic guit... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — I was already impressed with The Lonely Forest without even hearing a single note from them. I found out they were the first band signed on Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie’s new label, Trans. I checked out “Live There”, a song from their sel... more info

Guardian Music — The indie-rap raconteur tries his hand at rock with a track co-written with the late Mark Linkous of SparklehorseHeralded by some as the godfather of "indie rap" (no wait, come back), Sage Francis recently made the leap into rock with his recent albu... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — The vastly under-appreciated Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin just are going to release their new album Let It Sway this year. Chris Walla from Death Cab for Cutie produced it. I’m really excited, and you should be too. The band just tweeted a... more info