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The Postal Service is an indie electro-pop band based in Seattle, Washington, United States, which started life as a side project for singer Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and producer Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel, Headset and Figurine. Several songs on their first LP, Give Up, feature guest vocals from Jenny Lewis, the lead singer of Rilo Kiley, a band which was once on the same label as Death Cab (Barsuk Records) and vocals from Jen Wood, an indie rock solo artist. Chris Walla recorded some of the songs and played the piano on Nothing Better. |
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about The Postal Service
Is Owl City A Postal Service Ripoff? Date: 05 Nov 2009
BeatCrave -
Owl City has extremely blown up within the last few months and we say – good for him. Although, a lot of music fiends can’t seem to help but notice that his style sounds VERY similar to The Postal Service’s signature sound. Right down to the electronic beats, the dreamy lyrics, and most of all – [...]
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Owl City: 'Shy boy' with No. 1 hit Date: 03 Nov 2009
Entertainment Weekly -
By Simon Vozick-Levinson Simon Vozick-Levinson chats with Adam Young, a smalltown guy whose laptop-pop single ''Fireflies'' sits atop the Billboard Hot 100
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TV Schedules Date: 29 Oct 2009
MTV Asia -
Adam Young has stocked freezers at Hy-Vee , loaded packages for UPS, and built shipping containers for Coca-Cola. Somewhere along the way, he also became a rather unassuming musical sensation.
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Owl City: The Biggest 'Total Nobody' With A Top 10 Single And Album Date: 28 Oct 2009
MTV Music Television -
Owl City might be the biggest "total nobody" in music today. "The past six months have been nothing but a colorful, brilliant blur," Adam Young told MTV News of his "Fireflies"-driven success.
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Ben Gibbard, Jay Farrar Perform Kerouac Music Date: 26 Oct 2009
Spin -
How's this for a great concept: The words of legendary Beat poet Jack Kerouac set to song by a pining indie-pop prince and an alt-Americana forefather. And when Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie, The Postal Service) and Jay Farrar (Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo) came together at Los Angeles' El Rey Theatre on Friday night, their performance felt about as organic as the text that inspired it. tweetmeme ...
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Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard at Largo at the Coronet Date: 24 Oct 2009
Los Angeles Times -
Son Volt's Jay Farrar and Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard join forces at Largo. "We're a new band as of a few hours ago," Jay Farrar announced Thursday night from the stage of Largo at the Coronet, and he wasn't kidding: Thursday's show, the first of two in L.A., marked the premiere public performance by the Son Volt frontman with Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie. The songwriters, who were ...
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Live Review: Owl City in West Hollywood, CA Date: 21 Oct 2009
LiveDaily -
Imagine if Nine Inch Nails traded dark for light, if Trent Reznor went on Prozac, found God and swapped all his anger and angst for optimism and joy. If such a remarkable transformation ever took place, it would probably sound, look and feel a lot like Owl City [ tickets ] 's sold-out show Tuesday (10/20) at the Troubadour. Owl City, the brainchild of 23-year-old Minnesota-spawned Adam Young ...
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On 10/7/2009 8:45:31 AM, Anonymous said: Date: 07 Oct 2009
San Antonio Current -
Press materials for this SA quartet’s full-length debut compare Budian (Budge Anne? Boo Dianne? Booty Yawn?) to Death Cab for Cutie, Rilo Kiley, and Postal Service, a side project for Death Cab’s Ben Gibbard and RK’s Jenny Lewis.
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