Death Cab for Cutie builds lengthier 'Stairs' trek
Indie bikers Death Taxi for Cutie [ tickets ] go on to big bucks on dates for their run behind the forthcoming "Narrow down Steps," including an extensive fresh summer leg.The Seattle band kicks off its leap excursion Apr 18 in Bremerton, WA, a trek that forthwith looks to take a two-week break in mid-May before coming back strong with a load that gets started May 24 in Portland, OR, and runs through late June. The newly dates bookend the group's June 15 slot at Manchester, TN's Bonnaroo [ tickets ] festival. Inside information ar listed below."Narrow down Steps," the group's first studio feat since 2005's Grammy-nominated "Plans," will hit stores May 13. The album--the band's sec major-label release--was produced by Death Cab's guitarist, Chris Walla; a cyclosis interpretation of the just-released lead i, "I Will Possess Your Spirit," can buoy be establish at the band's MySpace page."I hope this record album is a chip of a surprise for those out there that intend they have us wholly figured out," bassist Nick Harmer said in a weigh financial statement. "We can't hold off to percentage these songs with the world."The band was the butt of an Apr Fool's laugh before this month, when a prankster "leaked" a copy of "Peg down Steps" onto the Internet, according to MTV News. Afterwards the news leak became widespread, sharp-eared listeners discovered that apart from an authentic variation of the aforementioned number one single, the purported fresh Expiry Cabriolet songs were actually taken from German band Velveteen's new album "Home Waters.""Yeah, I heard more or less this--someone sent me a MySpace message locution we had been function of an Apr [Fool's] joke," Velveteen frontman Carsten Schrauff told the music TV meshwork last week. "Then we started getting more multitude request us around it. We had no estimate what was natural event, just we heard it and started recounting people it wasn't Death Cab, it was us they were auditory modality. It's jolly unbelievable."
