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In October, Death Cab for Cutie and the Postal Service wrapped their co-headlining tour with a three-night stand in Los Angeles at the Hollywood Bowl. During the run, both of the Ben Gibbard ...
On August 3, 2013, Ben Gibbard announced on Twitter that the Lollapalooza after-show would be the last Postal Service performance ever, and that the band would formally disband permanently after the show, finally quashing rumors of a highly anticipated second album. The band played their last live show at the Metro Chicago on August 5, 2013.
The Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie have toured extensively as co-headliners in recent years, and both Ben Gibbard-led groups are now confirmed to anchor the lineup for the Just Like Heaven ...
Gibbard is the subject of the song "Ben's My Friend" by indie folk act Sun Kil Moon. The track appears on the project's sixth studio album, Benji (2014). [ 43 ] On Sun Kil Moon's follow-up album, Universal Themes (2015), primary recording artist Mark Kozelek again refers to his friendship with Gibbard on its closing track, "This Is My First Day ...
The show as a whole serves as a reminder of Gibbard’s endurance, too. His moment of cultural ubiquity launched a thousand pale imitators, every dork with a synthesiser briefly thinking they ...
Ben Gibbard and Nick Harmer have both been quoted as saying that the album was "a much less guitar-centric album than we've ever made before". [29] The 1983 album Dazzle Ships, by English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), was a major influence on the record. [30]
The series theme song "Frightening Fishes" was written by Ben Gibbard and Tom Howe. [13] During a 2023 interview with Harrison Ford for The Hollywood Reporter, author James Hibberd reminded Ford that he had said in 2002 that he was content to work only once per year and asked him why he had accepted the offer to play Dr. Paul Rhoades.
Ahead of dual performances at Saturday's Just Like Heaven festival, Ben Gibbard talks about his overlapping careers with the Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie.