Check out this track by Arman Bohn of Portland:
Combat, from Bits
The former bandmate of members of Death Cab for Cutie (they shared a third band back in the day) has no label, and is assembling a band. We’ll have the latest if/when he’s going to play live, and maybe another track. I love this single.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
6:00pm | All Ages
Marymoor Park Amphitheatre
Death Cab For Cutie with Special Guests: Saturday, July 18, 2009, and by overwhelming demand a 2nd show has been added: Sunday, July 19, 2009 at 6:00pm at the Marymoor Park Amphitheatre.
Tickets: $35.00, not including applicable fees. Tickets are on sale NOW at all Ticketbastard outlets, online at www.livenation.com and www.concertsatmarymoor.com.
Three-piece power pop band Sorry hails from trendy, suburban Auburn, Washington.
The press kit says “harmonies and tasteful distortion”, to which I’d add “an affinity for the early Death Cab sound, which isn’t a bad thing.” Here’s some singles off the RSVP ep. Good stuff, boys.
Autobiography
Bicycle
Autopilot
Straight from a particularly Kafka-esque chapter in the Long, Sad Saga of Music Copyright comes news that Death Cab for Cutie’s own videos are unavailable on their site. Reason? Warner Music’s takedown notice caused YouTube to remove the videos.
The result is that DCfC’s site now has no DCfC videos because it depended on YouTube to host and stream them. Now that they’re gone from YouTube, no vids.
Warner Music has been keeping itself very busy as of late by sending YouTube takedown notices for videos it believes are unauthorized, and its zeal has now caused a bit of embarrassment for one of its own artists. The band Death Cab for Cutie had posted several of its videos–found via YouTube–to its official website, but fans found over the weekend that they couldn’t watch them… due to a copyright claim from Death Cab for Cutie’s own record label, Warner Music. The blooper left the band red-faced (it has since removed the embeds from the site)–and it highlights how crazy the DMCA takedown game has become.
Thanks to Ars for notice of this story.
I just heard about this on KEXP, and it sent me scurrying for Google to find out, well, WTF?!
From Chris Walla’s blog:
I know it’s been a long time since I’ve updated this blog. Mostly it’s because I keep forgetting how to log in. My solo record is coming along nicely, despite the fact that the master drive was confiscated by US Homeland Security at the border (much of the record was recorded between Vancouver and Victoria, BC). I’m told it’s at ‘computer forensics in Quantico’ but I wouldn’t be able to tell you what that means in any real way; you see, there’s exactly no customer service element to our federal government.
My bolds. Note to US government: please drop the fucking paranoia. Please.
It’s not a Kafka novel, and I’m not a prisoner at Guantanamo. My life isn’t so bad. But still, this situation is a concrete and real reminder of what fuels the world we live in: It’s fear and mistrust and suspicion. And oil.
As this country is slowly drained of talent, both technical and artistic, we’re left with nothing save the lonely blue glow of television at night.