Ben Gibbard

Stream Foo Fighters’ new album, Sonic Highways

Foo Fighters are releasing their new album, Sonic Highways, on November 10th. The album can be streamed in full on iTunes Radio in anticipation for the release.

Sonic Highways is the follow-up to Wasting Light, and the band recorded each song on the album in studios in different cities across the country, which was documented by the HBO series with the same name. Each song is lyrically inspired by each location and has collaborations with a local musician. These collaborations include Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen (Chicago), Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard (Seattle), Joan Jett (New York City), Gary Clark Jr. (Austin), The Eagles’ Joe Walsh (Los Angeles), and New Orleans Preservation Hall Jazz Band (New Orleans).

Pre-order the album via Amazon.

Sonic Highways Tracklist:
01. Something From Nothing (feat. Rick Nielsen)
02. The Feast and The Famine (feat. RDGLDGRN)
03. Congregation (feat. Zac Brown Band)
04. What Did I Do?/God As My Witness (feat. Gary Clark Jr.)
05. Outside (feat. Joe Walsh)
06. In The Clear (feat. New Orleans Preservation Hall Jazz Band)
07. Subterranean (feat. Ben Gibbard)
08. I Am A River (feat. Joan Jett)

 

Ben Gibbards scores soundtrack for “Laggies”

As the movie gears up to be released this month, producers of the romantic comedy Laggies announced the release date for the score, which has been composed by Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard.

As the most recent work of Lynn Shelton, Laggies features Keira Knightley, the movie is a “coming of age story about a 28-year-old woman stuck in permanent adolescence that lies to her fiancé about going on a retreat and spends the time hanging out with friends instead.” The cast also by Sam Rockwell, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ellie Kemper, Jeff Garlin, and Mark Webber.

With 22 tracks on the soundtrack, it will digitally be available on November 4th and November 10th on CD. This is Gibbard’s theatrical score debut, and I is described as “Seattle-centric,” with a mix of moody and upbeat indie rock that is parallel with the film’s comedic, and gut-wrenching view of friendship, love, maturity and development.