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Looking for something new? Here’s what to stream, listen to and play this week in US

This week brings a fresh slate of entertainment to screens and speakers

The Independent UK

Fans of '00s Death Cab for Cutie take note: Their new album is about grief — and it's for you

Death Cab for Cutie are gearing up to release a new album titled “I Built You a Tower.”

The Independent UK

What to Stream: 'Hoppers,' 'Love Island,' Lizzo and Death Cab for Cutie albums

New albums from Lizzo and Death Cab for Cutie, along with the streaming debut of the animated hit “Hoppers,” are among the entertainment highlights this week

The Independent UK

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“It’s going to piss off anyone drilling their sweep picking, but it’s brittle and human and alive in a way that I adore”: April 2026 Guitar World Editors’ Picks

Fresh new cuts from all corners of the guitar world courtesy of Muse, Arlo Parks, Jack White, Ed O'Brien, Weezer, Periphery, and more...

Guitar World

“I wrote the song in about 15 minutes, then I went home because I realized there was no point in working the rest of the day”: The quickly-written Death Cab for Cutie masterpiece that became a generational meditation on loss

I Will Follow You into the Dark would shatter millions of millennial hearts, eventually becoming Death Cab's biggest song

MusicRadar

All the celebrities running the 2025 New York City marathon, from Anthony Ramos to a Harry Potter star

Sunday’s race will see over 55,000 participants run the iconic course across all five boroughs

The Independent UK

“I didn't really understand how any of it worked. We were just young and up for anything”: The Postal Service on creating indie-electronic classic Give Up

Jimmy Tamborello, aka Dntel, on creating the seminal work of ‘indietronica’ with Death Cab’s Ben Gibbard

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Death Cab for Cutie/The Postal Service review, All Points East: Heaven for thirtysomething nostalgia-heads

The two favourite bands of every proto-softboi in 2003 preached to the converted at London’s Victoria Park

The Independent UK

‘Feel no shame for what you are’: the greatest songs about the new year

From Abba to U2, midcentury vocal groups to 00s emo, we highlight songs that clear up the previous year’s party and look to a fresh start

The Guardian - UK

Postal Service performs the best of Ben Gibbard’s Riot Fest sets

Lively performance improves upon the sleepy Death Cab for Cutie set just hours earlier.

Chicago Sun-Times

A beginner's guide to Sub Pop Records in five essential albums

Celebrated as the home of grunge, Sub Pop has evolved into one of America's most eclectic indie labels. Here is the Sub Pop story told via five key records

Louder

Every Death Cab for Cutie album ranked from worst to best

Since their formation in 1997, Death Cab for Cutie have released 10 studio albums. Here's how they rank in order of greatness

Louder

Karla Peterson: From sly sitcoms to music-nerd podcasts, a big pop-culture thanks for a cornucopia of entertainment treats

In this season of eating, drinking and socializing, it is easy to give abundance a bad name. But when it comes to our entertainment, I am on Team Always Room for More.

Tribune News Service

Death Cab for Cutie talks hometown shows, new album 'Asphalt Meadows' and Seattle Mariners

SEATTLE — A lot has changed over the course of the pandemic, and with live events suspended for a time, some musicians were forced to take up 9-to-5s. The members of Death Cab for Cutie weren't exactly pushing paper while touring was on ice, but the Seattle indie rock kings…

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What do you give Yoko Ono on her birthday? A tribute album

Yoko Ono turns 89 on Friday and some admirers have a birthday gift: “Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono,” a 14-track album of covers from such artists as David Byrne, Yo La Tengo, Sharon Van Etten, Japanese Breakfast and The Flaming Lips

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