Alt-rockers Death Cab for Cutie [ ] have begun to work their late-year schedule into shape, with the band chromosome mapping a abbreviated fall trek in support of May's "Narrow Stairs" LP.
The Seattle natives kick off their fall run with their first hometown concert in almost iI years, a Sept. 1 appearance at Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival. The band's eight-city headlining trek gets underway a month later, starting Oct. 3 in Boston.
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Highlights of the jaunt include an Oct. 8 appearance at New York City's Radio City Music Hall, as well as stops in Atlantic City, NJ (10/5) and St. Louis, MO (10/13). Dates are included below.
The group scored its first No. 1 album this spring with "Narrow Stairs," which sold gross,000 copies in its first week in stores. The set--the band's first-class honours degree studio exertion since 2005's Grammy-nominated "Plans"--was produced by Death Cab's guitarist, Chris Walla; a streaming reading of the lead single, "I Will Possess Your Heart," canful be constitute at the band's MySpace page.
"For 'Narrow Stairs,' the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs--songs we could sit in a room and just play," frontman Ben Gibbard said of the album's more straightforward approach in a recent interview with Rolling Stone. "I canful honestly say I had more playfulness and felt more divine on this record than anything that we had done in a long time."
Videos for "Heart" and the album's forthcoming arcsecond single, "Cath...," can be found streaming on the band's website.
[Note: The following tour dates have been provided by artist and/or tour sources, who swear its accuracy as of the publication time of this story. Changes may occur in front go on sale. Check with official artist websites, ticketing sources and venues for tardy updates.]
September 20081�- Seattle, WA - Bumbershoot FestivalOctober 20083 - Boston, MA - Agganis Arena4�- Wallingford, CT�- Chevrolet Theatre5�- Atlantic City, NJ - House of Blues6�- New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall8�- Columbus, OH�- Lifestyle Communities Pavilion11 - Green Bay, WI�- OKOBOS Festival12�- Champaign, IL - University of Illinois13 - St. Louis, MO�- Fox Theatre
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