Death Cab For Cutie Tickets – Death Cab For Cutie Prepares For Spring Tour

Indie darlings Death Cab for Cutie will hit the road this spring, starting with an April 7 performance at the Tower Theatre in Upper Darby, PA. Ra Ra Riot will open for the entire tour, which Cold War Kids will support Death Cab in April followed by Matt Costa in May. Death Cab will weave its way through the nation with stops in Miami (at the Langerado Festival), Washington, D.C., Louisville, Memphis, Omaha, Chicago, Sacramento, Austin, New Orleans, Nashville, Atlanta and more. Check out http://www.stubhub.com/death-cab-for-cutie-tickets for Death Cab for Cutie tickets.

Giving hope to indie rock bands everywhere, Death Cab for Cutie went from underground indie gem to Grammy-nominated rock band at the blink of an eye. Death Cab for Cutie originated as a side project for singer/guitarist Ben Gibbard, who was an engineering student at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. Gibbard, who was a part-time student and part-time musician, took a break from his power pop band Pinwheel, which was enjoying local success, to record solo material in the summer of 1997 with producer Chris Walla. The resulting eight-song cassette titled You Can Play These Songs with Chords was a local sensation and Gibbard subsequently assembled a band within his group of friends.

With drummer Nathan Good, bassist Nick Harmer (Gibbard’s roommate) and Walla on guitar (he would later produce the majority of Death Cab’s releases,) Gibbard christened his new group Death Cab for Cutie, taking the name from a song by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. The quartet signed a record deal with the Seattle-based label Barsuk Records and released their studio debut, Something About Airplanes, in 1998. The album featured a handful of re-recorded tracks from the You Can Play These Songs with Chords cassette and revealed Death Cab for Cutie to be a dreamy pop confection with a sound akin to Built to Spill. Gibbard continued to enjoy side success with his other group the Postal Service as Death Cab for Cutie began to gain popularity.

In 2000 We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes was released (Good exited the lineup before its completion and Michael Schorr came on board,) followed by The Forbidden Love EP and The Photo Album LP (Death Cab’s third full-length), both in 2001. Barsuk re-released You Can Play These Songs with Chords with 10 additional tracks before the group’s most polished effort yet, Transatlanticism, revealed a new drummer, Jason McGerr, the following year. TV producer Josh Schwartz liked what he heard and played songs from Death Cab’s Transatlanticism on his hit show The O.C., which signaled the apex of the indie band’s popularity as kids everywhere began listening to Seth Cohen’s (a main character on the popular teen drama) favorite band.

After releasing the live disc The John Byrd E.P., Death Cab for Cutie inked a major label recording deal with Atlantic Records in 2004 and issued Plans soon afterward, watching it skyrocket to number four. The album eventually achieved platinum status, earned a Grammy nod and made Death Cab for Cutie the indie band of the day, with a cover on Spin Magazine and an appearance on Saturday Night Live to boot. In May 2008 Death Cab released their major-label follow-up, the darker album Narrow Stairs. Narrow Stairs debuted at number one (its release coincided with Walla’s solo album Field Manual) and spawned popular single “Cath.” The band’s upcoming tour is in support of Narrow Stairs so hurry up and get your Death Cab for Cutie tickets soon or risk missing the band when they stop in a town near you!