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	Ben Gibbard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Benjamin Gibbard, born August 11, 1976 in Bremerton, Washington and currently residing in Seattle, Washington, is an American musician who has formed several indie bands, and who is known for his poetic songwriting.
		Gibbard also appeared as a guest on Jimmy Tamborello's (his Postal Service collaborator) Dntel album entitled Life is Full of Possibilities.
		Specifically, he contributed vocals to the song "(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan." He also played bass for the band Pedro the Lion on their 2001 tour.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ben_Gibbard (525 words)

	Morphizm.com -- On Politics: An Interview with Ben Gibbard
		Ben Gibbard: I think art and politics are directly related to each other, and people that deny the cross-influence are kidding themselves.
		Ben Gibbard: It's really scary how much effect it's had.
		Ben Gibbard: I can counter that with a question about whether or not the media has ever been clean of bias.
	www.morphizm.com /recommends/interviews/gibbard_2004.html (781 words)

	filter magazine - features
		Gibbard, who was writing songs under the name All Time Quarterback, made a record about a break-up, and with the help of fellow Washington buddies Chris Walla (guitar/producer) and Nick Harmer (drums), he got it out into the world.
		When he speaks, Gibbard flounders about at high speed, stepping on his words, stumbling and reiterating, apologizing for going off on a loop, and ultimately sounding exactly like a person who is trying with all his might to believe the things he is saying but just isn't quite there yet.
		Gibbard depicts the anguish and frustration of a hospital waiting room, and after the song melodically lulls to a gentle, hushed hum, he attests both mournfully and assuredly that "Love is watching someone die." Gibbard isn't even sure that he fully understands the gravity and force of such a statement.
	www.filter-mag.com /features/interior.66.html (1769 words)

	Under the Radar - Ben Gibbard Bonus Quotes
		Ben Gibbard: [Laughs] I’ve been joking recently that when we were in the studio we were watching a bunch of DVD’s, and Chris brought The Making of Steely Dan’s Asia.
		Ben: There’s no way to say this without sounding like I’m patting myself on the back, but when I was a kid, there was only one all ages place in Seattle to see shows.
		Ben: Well, we haven’t played a show since November, and it was weird when I was watching part of the movie last night and I started getting nervous because we’re going to playing a show in less than a month, and we haven’t played these old songs in a long time.
	undertheradarmag.com /bengibbard.html (5043 words)

	knot.magazine
		And, by extension, he speaks for all of us who once looked to indie rock for intelligent, multifaceted portrayals of real lives, only to learn that these loser songwriters were mostly still harboring resentment because they didn't go to the prom.
		Receiving the music in the mail, Gibbard would craft a narrative, and what he came up with was, to that point, his most provocative work.
		Whether it's the feminine-centered "Death of an Interior Decorator" or the objects of love in "Lightness" and "Expo '86," Gibbard has evolved to a point where women are neither virgins nor whores, neither victims nor bitches.
	www.knotmag.com /?article=1027 (1318 words)

	Death Cab For Cutie \| The A.V. Club
		It's been eight years since Ben Gibbard recorded Death Cab For Cutie's debut cassette, You Can Play These Songs With Chords, during which time the solo project has turned into a full-fledged band, recorded several slabs of beautiful, earnest indie rock, and steadily built up a devoted fan base (which includes The OC's Seth Cohen).
		Ben Gibbard: I think the short answer is that we found ourselves at a crossroads.
		Jason and I are super prog-rock geeks, and Nick has this big theatrical metal sort of side to him, and Ben, he's pretty traditionally been the only sort of musical moderate or even semi-conservative in the band.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/41269/print (4489 words)

	The Seattle Times: Music & nightlife: Death Cab's Ben Gibbard aims for heart with new song
		A week after performing with his Death Cab mates on TV's "The O.C.," Gibbard insisted he was nervous, waiting his turn (the performers' chairs were in a straight line on stage) to perform.
		Gibbard later sang another new song, which he said "didn't make the new record." Indeed, this one sounded like it would be more at home on "Transatlanticism," the last Barsuk release.
		Gibbard said the band has finished the recording work, though bass player/producer Chris Walla has another grueling month of post-production work.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/musicnightlife/2002260529_gibb03.html (832 words)

	Review : Benjamin Gibbard and Andrew Kenny - Home Volume V
		I hoard anything Ben Gibbard creates or is a part of or is even in the same room with when others are creating music.
		Ben Gibbard begins Home: Volume V with “You Remind Me of Home,” a track that you will soon know the lyrics to and want to hear all the time.
		The lyrics are sung with Ben’s usual vocals, the added higher vocals and together.
	www1.agouti.com /bands/benjamingibbardandandrewkenny/homevolumev/benjamingibbardandandrewkenny.asp (689 words)

	stereogum: Ben Gibbard Plays Bowery Ballroom 1/10/05
		As expected, Ben performed cuts from his 2003 split EP with opener Andrew Kenny, and a bunch of covers.
		As much as I dislike Deathcab, I do appreciate how schlubby Ben Gibbard is. I mean it's an exception to the rule, but it's refreshing nonetheless.
		Plus, Ben Gibbard and Colin Meloy have to be long lost twins.
	www.stereogum.com /archives/002213.html (960 words)

	Amazon.com: HOME: Volume 5: Music: Benjamin Gibbard,Andrew Kenny (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The four songs shared by Gibbard on this EP showcase a more direct, warm, comfortable, yet tranquil artist that resonates in the classics "You Remind Me of Home" and "Carolina", two tracks that stand right up there with his work with Death Cab and the Postal Service.
		I wouldn't say this EP is the best of either of Ben Gibbard or Andrew Kenny's work, but its not far from it.
		Gibbard and Kenny are both in some of the best bands currently together, and it is somewhat refreshing hearing both of them doing their own thing.
	www.amazon.com /HOME-5-Benjamin-Gibbard/dp/B000172IC0 (1474 words)

	ben gibbard / andrew kenny, home ep vol. v
		Both artists prove that reduced singer-/songwriting (both only require their voice and an acoustic guitar) does not necessarily have to deal with whining self-indulgence or with the tyranny of songs about the absent (ex-)girlfriend.
		Instead, Gibbard and Kenny both succeed in approaching the subject of this ep's title with subtlety: Home.
		BEN GIBBARD / ANDREW KENNY : Hometown Fantasy
	www.boomkat.com /item.cfm?id=16091 (469 words)

	Plans: Death Cab for Cutie: Ben Gibbard Wimps Out
		Ben Gibbard's band is on a major label now, but they're still as sensitive as always.
		It's not that I mind half of it — "Soul Meets Body" never ceases to kill me when Ben Gibbard tells his girl "you're the only song I want to hear." But his sensitivity comes on so strong that the grumps will always assume he's playing passive-aggressive to get into the girl's pants.
		Still, he's no dummy — his warning of "You can't find nothin' at all/If there was nothin' there all along" is a sharp rebuke to the wimps in his fan base who won't take responsibility for their nonexistent love lives.
	www.thesimon.com /magazine/articles/consumables/0966_death_cab_cutie_ben_gibbard_wimps_out.html (1292 words)

	Muzzle of Bees » Ben Gibbard acoustic on KEXP MP3’s
		Getting ready for the sold out Death Cab For Cutie concert taking place at the Orpheum Theatre on April 21st, I thought I would share an interview and acoustic session that Ben Gibbard performed on KEXP in 2003.
		Ben Gibbard - KEXP - June 6, 2003
		5 Responses to “Ben Gibbard acoustic on KEXP MP3’s”
	www.muzzleofbees.com /2006/03/31/ben-gibbard-acoustic-on-kexp-mp3s (186 words)

	... welcome to the three imaginary girls ...
		I am nice, educated, smart, fun, good looking — your mother would love me! But get me into a room with Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie (DCFC) and I turn into this weird (but attractive) schizophrenic who shouts words aloud at inappropriate times and when he addresses the audience, I laugh maniacally.
		Ben made the off-comment that the Saturday night show had better-looking people than the Friday night gig.
		Meanwhile, I am so excited that I have made yet another connection with Ben and I am laughing (maniacally, drunkenly, again!) and Ben seems to be experiencing fear.
	www.threeimaginarygirls.com /bengibbardhatesme.asp (1152 words)

	Ben Gibbard/Andrew Kenny - Home Vol. 5 (Post-Parlo)
		Not only is this subscription series available in stores, but they're repressing the popular installments, like this split release with Ben Gibbard and Andrew Kenny, but just giving it different packaging.
		Both put forth an earnest effort of translating the full band song to the acoustic guitar (esp. Gibbard), but, really, that's not all that interesting.
		Gibbard's "You Remind Me of Home" is obviously a rush job but it has its charms, using an upbeat tempo and Gibbard's standard slightly-veiled antipathy.
	www.fakejazz.com /reviews/2003/gibbardkenny.shtml (326 words)

	Midheaven Mailorder \| Browse by Artist: GIBBARD, BENJAMIN / KENNY, ANDREW
		Over the course of this 8-song release, Gibbard and Kenny explore the concept of "home" from the inside out.
		Both songwriters spend way too much of their lives on tour, playing to hundreds and thousands of new faces every night, so when the opportunity to include the two in the HOME series came up, it was impossible to resist.
		Three of Gibbard's four offerings are new songs recorded in late 2002 and early 2003, with the fourth being a cover of AmAnSet's "Choir Vandals" (Know By Heart, 2002).
	www.midheaven.com /artists/gibbard.benjamin.kenny.andrew.html (304 words)

	The Believer - Ben Gibbard talks with Wayne Coyne
		Ben Gibbard fronts Death Cab for Cutie, a band from the Pacific Northwest whose moody, rigorously introspective music rose up in the patch of scorched earth left by ’90s alt-rock behemoths Nirvana and Pavement, coming into play as a sort of post-millennial soundtrack for young people.
		Gibbard had just arrived in Austin as part of a tour of the Southwest.
		BEN GIBBARD: I feel bad for any group that has to go on after the Flaming Lips because I don’t think that there is any band that can compare with the experience that you give the people in the audience.
	www.believermag.com /issues/200606/?read=interview_coyne_gibbard (500 words)

	Small Talk: Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard
		Gibbard: For me, it’s a question of who’s going to watch you die.
		Gibbard: While Phil Collins has made some indefensibly bad music over the course of his career I think he has also made some really great music.
		Gibbard: I will stand by my belief that Phil Collins is one of the most underrated singers in pop music.
	harpmagazine.com /articles/detail.cfm?article_id=4131 (306 words)

	Ben Gibbard Finds a Rotten Apple
		Death Cab for Cutie and Postal Service singer Ben Gibbard is, by almost all published accounts, a really nice guy.
		Rather than starting with a clean slate, someone on the commercial team appears to have thought, "Hey, that thing with the spacemen floating around the laboratory to the sounds of electronic music was pretty cool." The result is an Apple commercial that will look awfully familiar to Postal Service fans.
		The filmmakers' "recreation" of their own work is not illegal, but Gibbard says that it is unethical.
	www.noiseman433.com /topstories_Ben.asp (310 words)

	Death Cab’s Ben Gibbard
		Ben Gibbard went to college in Bellingham, Wash., where he made heroes out of modest alternative-rock bands like Teenage Fanclub and Red House Painters while taking courses on chemical biology and environmental physics.
		Plans, Death Cab's sixth album and first for major label Atlantic, could very well be the larger commercial breakthrough, but beyond such expectations Gibbard remains the sort of musical purist who will gladly tell you why commercial radio still sucks and why Wayne Coyne and the Flaming Lips totally rule.
		I honestly think that when all the music is done and we all become real grown-ups and move onto other things, we will always be friends with the Dismemberment Plan.
	www.harpmagazine.com /articles/detail.cfm?article_id=3536 (777 words)

	Ben Gibbard on 43 People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		I urge all of you to realize that although Ben G hehe is an amazing artist he is a person as well.
		There are a great number of amazing people out there we have yet to encounter; I hope to have met them all before my life decides to fade away.
		Ben is a really talented musician, and it would be nice to get something signed by him so I can say I met him… but I heard he was a little arrogant/unfriendly so no conversation would be required.
	www.43people.com /profile/view/101800 (444 words)

	stereogum: Win A Date With Ben Gibbard
		Ben Gibbard flies solo next week, and we want one of you to go on a date with him.
		Being the dramatic ass that I am I got to the show, which was packed, stood at the bar, got way too drunk, felt sorry for myself because I was at the show alone, drunkenly talked to the merch guy about my friends band, bought a shirt, and then left before the show was over.
		I'd really love to get that ticket because having seen them live already, and despite how good the solo Ben show sounds (as that Home EP is a masterpiece), so far I've mostly made my own interpretations of their music.
	www.stereogum.com /archives/002192.html (4832 words)

	THE JENVILLE SHOW: Ben Gibbard: Death Cab for Cutie , Postal Service
		Seattle resident, Ben Gibbard is the singer/guitarist/songwriter for two of the most highly acclaimed bands around today: Death Cab for Cutie and the Postal Service.
		In 2002, Ben wrote and recorded with Jimmy Tamborello (of Dntel and Figurine) under the name The Postal Service.
		THIS INTERVIEW took place in October, 2003 in Ben's tour bus behind the Middle East club in Cambridge, MA.
	www.thejenvilleshow.com /bengibbard.html (141 words)

	Band Called Postal Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The lead vocals come from Ben Gibbard from death cab.
		The lead vocals come from Ben Gibbard from death...
		An interview with Ben Gibbard of The Postal Service, written in April 2003.
	www.csxlines.com /band-called-postal-service.html (285 words)

	Six Degrees of Ben Gibbard - Halflife2.net
		That made my day, Ben Gibbard is one of my all-time favorite musicians, and more recognition for him is only a good thing.
		Gibbard does the vocals for the song "Couches In Alleys".
		I've also heard good things about the band Junior Boys, for some more electro-pop goodness, but haven't gotten around to checking any of their stuff out yet.
	www.halflife2.net /forums/showthread.php?t=78576 (162 words)

	brooklynvegan: Ben Gibbard, Andrew Kenny & Matthew Caws played the Bowery
		Ben Gibbard, Andrew Kenny & Matthew Caws played the Bowery
		Reviews of the Gibbard show are up at Stereogum, Central Village, lolz at Zach, and thegoodlife_863's LiveJournal.
		Colin Meloy & Ben Gibbard @ Summerstage, NYC
	www.brooklynvegan.com /archives/2006/01/ben_gibbard_and_1.html (289 words)

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