Ben Gibbard

Master thespian Ben Gibbard brought his Jack Kerouac-celebrating collaboration with Jay Farrar to Los Angeles on a busy Friday which had the pair (along with Death Cab resident beard Nick Harmer) record a session for KCRW before headlining a show at the El Ray with Long Winter main mind John Roderick in the early slot. The kind folks at KCRW allowed our photographer Andrew Youssef to shoot the session, during which Gibbard mentioned he’d be playing a solo set in LA on 11/21 for a benefit organized by Tim Robbins, before AY took in the sold-out El Ray set. More bits: Roderick mentioned a ... Read Full Story

NPR has Ben Gibbard & Jay Farrar streaming live tonight : Jay Farrar (Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo) and Benjamin Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie) take the stage together to perform songs inspired by the writings of Jack Kerouac, in a full concert webcast live on NPR Music tonight (Oct. 27). Hear the performance, featuring music from the duo’s new album (One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Music From Kerouac’s Big Sur), beginning at approximately 9 p.m. ET from the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. Related posts: NPR Live Concert Series | Sonic Youth Drive-By Truckers on NPR Live Webcast Series Tonight My Morning Jacket ... Read Full Story

The Death Cab cutie has stopped at nothing in paving his way into Hollywood for this silver screen debut. He wrote a song for that vampire movie . He even married an actress ! Very method. Gibbard’s time has finally come, playing one of the hideous men briefly interviewed by Sarah Quinn (two “n”s) in John Krasinski’s big screen adaptation of David Foster Wallace’s short-story collection Brief Interviews With Hideous Men . We saw him making the rounds at Sundance , but now we get to watch him work it out in front of a camera with this excerpt of his performance in the ... Read Full Story

JAY FARRAR AND BENJAMIN GIBBARD JOIN FORCES FOR NEW ALBUM INSPIRED BY JACK KEROUAC’S “BIG SUR” & SET SIX SPECIAL KEROUAC CONCERTS COLLABORATIVE ALBUM ONE FAST MOVE OR I’M GONE: KEROUAC’S BIG SUR OUT OCTOBER 20 ON F-STOP/ATLANTIC One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur, a new album featuring 12 original songs composed and performed by Jay Farrar of Son Volt and Benjamin Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie–with lyrics based on the prose of Jack Kerouac’s landmark 1962 novel Big Sur–is set for an October 20 release on F-Stop/Atlantic Records along with a feature-length documentary of the same title in which ... Read Full Story

Okay, I’m not ashamed to admit how much I really love Death Cab for Cutie. I really love their music and own all of their albums. However, this did not stop me from giggling when I read via the DCFC blog that vocalist Ben Gibbard got stung by a scorpion not once, but twice. As the story goes, Gibbard had changed into his outfit before their show in San Diego yesterday and felt what he said like a wasp sting in his thigh. Much to the band’s surprise, a small scorpion came scurrying out when he pulled off his pants. Awful? Yes. Kind of ... Read Full Story