Death Cab for Cutie builds lengthier 'Stairs' trek
Indie rockers End Cab for Cutie [ tickets ] continue to pile on dates for their run behind the forthcoming "Narrow Steps," including an extensive freshly summertime leg.The Seattle band kicks off its outflow picnic April 18 in Bremerton, WA, a trek that now looks to take a two-week break in mid-May ahead sexual climax back strong with a elongate that gets started May 24 in Portland, OR, and runs through latterly June. The freshly dates bookend the group's June 15 slot at Manchester, TN's Bonnaroo [ tickets ] festival. Inside information are listed below."Constrict Stairs," the group's number one studio effort since 2005's Grammy-nominated "Plans," volition hit stores Crataegus laevigata 13. The album--the band's second base major-label release--was produced by Death Cab's guitarist, Chris Walla; a streaming version of the just-released tether bingle, "I Testament Possess Your Heart," can be establish at the band's MySpace page."I hope this album is a bit of a surprise for those come out there that believe they take us whole figured out," bassist Nick Harmer said in a fight affirmation. "We can't hold off to part these songs with the world."The band was the quarry of an Apr Fool's joke earlier this month, when a cut-up "leaked" a copy of "Narrow down Stairs" onto the Net, according to MTV News. Subsequently the leak became widespread, sharp-eared listeners discovered that aside from an authentic version of the aforementioned low ace, the purported newly Expiry Cabriolet songs were in reality taken from German band Velveteen's newly album "Family Waters.""Yeah, I heard about this--someone sent me a MySpace message expression we had been contribution of an Apr [Fool's] gag," Velveteen frontman Carsten Schrauff told the music TV electronic network last calendar week. "Then we started getting more people asking us about it. We had no idea what was occurrent, but we heard it and started telling people it wasn't Dying Cab, it was us they were hearing. It's pretty unbelievable."
