Tagged: october13

In this vid, those lucky bastards over at Maestro Knows get to kick it with Warren G at his Orange County crib and listen in as he showcases some gems from his October 13 release, G-Files . Aside from your typical smooth, laid-back G-funk, the regulator also plays a few beats he's looking to shop to Hova. "I know for a fact that I could do 10x more great music than a lot of the producers - no disrespect to them - that done music music for Jay-Z." Funny [...]

Ben Gibbard paused apologetically just before his band played a mellow newer cut, "Grapevine Fires": "I just realized we didn't introduce ourselves. How rude – we just barge into your house and don't introduce ourselves. We're Death Cab for Cutie from Seattle, Washington." To those at the Fabulous Fox Theatre on Monday night, though, the vocalist/guitarist's quartet needed no introduction. Its latest album, Narrow Stairs , debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard chart, and it's set to open some dates for Neil Young in the coming weeks. As Monday's fantastic, well-paced set proved, [...]

I'm a bit behind today because I traveled to Champaign for the Death Cab for Cutie concert there last night (more on that later this week), but I'm still stoked for tonight's show at the Fabulous Fox . That I'm excited because it's a Death Cab show is a given; that Fleet Foxes is opening positively makes me giddy. The Seattle band's harmonies seem beamed in directly from heaven -- and hearing them performed at the gorgeous Fox should be a cathartic experience. MP3: Fleet [...]

• Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal

In this week's paper, I talked to Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie about politics. You can read that article here , but below are some outtakes of us discussing political bands and the protest song and its function in the age of mass media and the Internet. Don't forget, Death Cab is at the Fabulous Fox Theatre on Monday night with Fleet Foxes opening! Tickets are still available. Annie Zaleski: [...]

Indifference - Ben Harper & Eddie Vedder 10.13.00 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY This one from my YouTube favorites seemed appropriate on the eve of the '08 DNC. I tend to avoid party politics, but at the same time conservatives tend not to make good music. From the archives : "Ben played solo acoustic along with a host of special guests to support Presidential candidate Ralph Nader. The program included speeches from actors/activists Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, actor/comedian Bill Murray, filmmaker Michael Moore [...]

Fleet Foxes -- who are opening for Death Cab for Cutie here at the Fabulous Fox Theatre on October 13 -- are really excited to be opening for Wilco. See below, from the band's MySpace:

Oh. Man. Death Cab for Cutie is all grown up and playing the Fabulous Fox Theatre on Monday, October 13. Fleet Foxes open, which I know will excite many of you. Tickets go on sale this Friday, August 15, at noon, and are $33 and $38. "I Will Possess Your Heart":