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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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News in english
about The Postal Service
(August / 2009)
Owl City: Ocean Eyes Date: 05 Aug 2009
Creative Loafing Atlanta -
By Ben Westhoff Ocean Eyes is the second studio album from the Postal Service — except no one in that group had anything to do with it. Actually, the work comes from Owl City, a project helmed by Owatonna, Minnesota's 23-year-old Adam Young. By aping the Postal Service's Ben Gibbard's trademark "Who, me, glum?" vocals, and producer Jimmy Tamborello's jingle-jangle synth sound, Young became a ...
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Death Cab New Moon Single to Debut at VMAs Date: 13 Aug 2009
Pitchfork -
Eight years ago, I watched Death Cab for Cutie sleepily rock an upstate New York college cafeteria. And in two weeks, that very same band's song from a massively anticipated teenage vampire romance movie will debut at the MTV Video Music Awards . That, my friends, is what we call a wide career arc.
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Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar Team Up to Record Jack Kerouac Album Date: 13 Aug 2009
Pitchfork -
The last time Ben Gibbard split off from the rest of Death Cab for Cutie to record an album's worth of songs, that album was the Postal Service 's Give Up , and half a million sensitive indie types swooned. (Of note: That Postal Service album still absolutely rules, eff a backlash.)
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Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar Team Up to Record Jack Kerouac Album Date: 13 Aug 2009
Pitchfork -
The last time Ben Gibbard split off from the rest of Death Cab for Cutie to record an album's worth of songs, that album was the Postal Service 's Give Up , and half a million sensitive indie types swooned. (Of note: That Postal Service album still absolutely rules, eff a backlash.)
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Hear a Song From Aaron and Bryce Dessner's The Long Count Date: 13 Aug 2009
Pitchfork -
The National's Aaron and Bryce Dessner recruited a pretty sick crew of guest vocalists to help them out on The Long Count , their multimedia project with visual artist Matthew Ritchie.
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The Anti-Hit List for Aug. 15 Date: 15 Aug 2009
Toronto Star -
John Sakamoto's weekly top 10 songs from outside the mainstream - with a 'Weird Al' Yankovic video.
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PoliTex: Kathleen Turner to portray Molly Ivins in play Date: 16 Aug 2009
Fort Worth Star-Telegram -
Texas journalism giant Molly Ivins, who skewered politicians of all stripes as a columnist for the Star-Telegram and other newspapers until her death in 2007, will be portrayed in a new play by one-time screen siren Kathleen Turner.
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Sounds From the Underground Date: 18 Aug 2009
IGN Music -
Owl City, We Were Promised Jetpacks and more.
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