The Ben Gibbard / Jimmy Tamborello project, The Postal Service, are re-issuing their epic Give Up for its 10th birthday. When my cat turned 10, I just gave it a milk bath that it seemed to hate. We’ve already heard...
Although they only released one album, The Postal Service got a lot of love for their fantastic debut effort. That’s why people were pretty excited when it was announced that Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello were getting together for some...
The Postal Service – Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello – are re-issuing Give Up on April 9 as a celebration of it being 10 years old like my ex-girlfriend. On the Deluxe Re-issue is a brand spanking new track called...
We touched on the volatile world of internet rumours earlier this morning. The Rolling Stones are playing Coachella. An insider source says they’re definitely not. Someone is right and someone is wrong, and a lot of media people are going...
Indie Music Accounted for Almost One Third of All 2012 Sales in the USA The American Association of Independent Music has pointed out that 2012’s Soundscan stats show that indie labels accounted for 32.6% of music sales in the USA...
Bye Bye Death Grips – Label Drops Them I guess releasing music for free online and pissing off your record company is not the way to establish a career-long partnership. Epic Record have dropped Death Grips, noting “Epic Records is...
Ben Gibbard Tells People Not to Hold Their Breath….for Another Postal Service Album Death Cab for Cutie frontman, Ben Gibbard, just came out with a solo album. But what about his other other project, the lovely Postal Service, with producer...
Full Flex Express Tour to Return in 2013 Skrillex launched his Full Flex Express train tour this year – PeteHatesMusic caught the Ottawa stop for the tour, and it was g-o-o-d. Great news for Skrillex fans and train enthusiasts –...
Score one for awkward song titles. Death Cab for Cutie frontman, Benjamin Gibbard is about to release a solo record, Former Lives. Apparently he goes by Benjamin and not Ben now. He also likes interesting song titles, such as this...
When he’s not writing tributes to baseball players, Death Cab For Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard is prepping his latest solo record. The album is called Former Lives, is out October 15/16, and is not entire about ex-wife, Zooey Deschanel, right?...
Amy Winehouse Album Sales, One Year After Her Death Yesterday marked one year since Amy Winehouse suddenly passed away. A look at the charts shows she had a great year for record sales but not a great year for living...
Ben Gibbard is the lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie. He was married to everyone’s favourite girl next door, She & Him singer / actress / objection of my affection Zooey Deschanel. Unfortunately, they have since recently separated. Ben...
Zoe Deschanel and Ben Gibbard Separate, Indie Fans Cry Do you remember that time when PeteHatesMusic commented that Zooey Deschanel wasn’t wearing her wedding ring, and that I would start a rumour of them breaking up? Well, it appears that...
