FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Ben gibbard - Caught on Camera

The Who's Pete Townshend believes that Keith Moon once bought dinner in Seattle for a nine-year-old Kurt Cobain

Amazing if true, but...

Louder · Jun 29

“What an amazing gift. Only years later did I realize he'd dropped my SG and put a crack in the neck”: Why Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard played an obscure Fender model early in his career – and the reason he's picked it up again after two decades

The alt-rock statesman's relationship with the Bullet, a beginner-friendly model, began with a gift that he thought at the time was an act of pure, unprompted generosity. He didn't quite know the whole story...

Guitar World · Jun 21

Death Cab’s Ben Gibbard: ‘Painting yourself as the aggrieved narrator... you’ve got to grow out of it’

INTERVIEW: Across a career built on lyrical introspection, Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard has rarely shied away from emotional candour. The indie rocker speaks to Annabel Nugent about growing up, resisting the safety of nostalgia – and why he doesn’t like the term ‘divorce album’

The Independent UK · Jun 12

“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 · Apr 30

“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 · Dec 13, 2025

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 · Oct 29, 2025

“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

MusicRadar · Sep 16, 2024

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 · Aug 26, 2024

‘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 · Jan 1, 2024

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 · Sep 17, 2023