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Sundance 2012 Blog: Keaton Simons

I've always had a special connection to Sundance because my late grandpa David Rayfiel and festival founder Robert Redford were extremely close friends and associates. My grandpa David wrote The Way We Were, Three Days of the Condor, Out Of Africa, and many other films starring Redford. Admittedly this is where I switch from associating Sundance with film and start thinking of music and friends. The last time I attended…
Death Cab for Cutie: The Importance of Being Earnest

Indie rock can be the paradise of the jaded and the irony-driven, so for that world’s songwriters, focusing on the art of earnestness can be tricky. A well-cultivated sense of detachment sometimes scrapes up against naked baring of emotion in the most unpleasant ways. However, for nearly 15 years, West Coasters Death Cab for Cutie have plotted a steady career climb by going light on irony, light…
Death Cab for Cutie Cranks It Up

“It’s creepy and heavy. We’ve got a ten-minute long Can jam, and had you suggested that possibility to me in 1998, I’d have eaten your puppy’s brain with a spoon.” No, that’s not some shock-rocker pumping up his latest sonic gorefest, but Chris Walla, singer/songwriter, guitarist, and producer for the normally melodic pop group Death Cab for Cutie. That he’s invoking Hannibal Lecter-ish images and referencing an…
Death Cab for Cutie

On album number five, Plans, rising modern rock band Death Cab for Cutie has definitely arrived. It’s their first release on a major, Atlantic Records, after selling nearly half-a-million copies of their 2003 album, Transatlanticism, on the Seattle-based independent Barsuk label. And it comes on the heels of their high-profile participation in 2004’s Vote For Change tour, where they shared the stage with superstars like R.E.M., Pearl…
Death Cab for Cutie

On album number five, Plans, rising modern rock band Death Cab For Cutie has definitely arrived. It’s their first release on a major, Atlantic Records, after selling nearly half-a-million copies of their 2003 album, Transatlanticism, on the Seattle-based independent Barsuk label. And it comes on the heels of their high-profile participation in 2004’s Vote For Change tour, where they shared the stage with superstars like R.E.M., Pearl…
BMI Spotlights Music at 2005 Sundance Film Festival
BMI will be hosting its annual Songwriters Snowball and Composer/Director roundtable at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, being held this year in Park City, UT from January 20-30. BMI has been an ongoing sponsor of the Festival, as well as the Sundance Composers Lab held annually at Sundance in July and August.
