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Death Cab For Cutie is coming to home for a concert at Key Arena on December 9. I picked up one of their albums last year and think it is hunky dory (meaning I only skip past their songs when they randomly come up on my ipod about 2/3 of the time rather than all of the time.) Anyway, even though they are locals I am a little surprised to learn that their show in at the 16,000+ seat KeyArena at Seattle Center, but there it is. And the show is apparently popular enough to have attracted the interest of the ticket brokers — a few of whom are hawking excellent seats to this show. If you are having trouble finding the seat you hoped for to this show check out these resources:

We Have Seats is selling up close and personal seats at prices ranging from $75-127
StubHub has seats from $93-139

So if you love the tenor crooning of the Deathcab chaps now is you chance to get good seats to the show. Happy shopping.

Here is more info on the band from their wiki:

Origin - Bellingham, Washington, USA
Years active - 1997 - present
Genres - Indie rock, Indie pop, Alternative rock
Labels - Atlantic Records
Barsuk Records
Members:
Ben Gibbard
Chris Walla
Nicholas Harmer
Jason McGerr

Death Cab for Cutie is an American band formed in Bellingham, Washington in 1997. The band takes its name from a satirical song, of the same name, performed by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band on their 1967 album Gorilla.

Death Cab for Cutie began as a solo project of Ben Gibbard while he was the guitar player for the band Pinwheel (he has also recorded solo as All-Time Quarterback). As Death Cab for Cutie, Gibbard released a cassette, titled You Can Play These Songs with Chords; the release was surprisingly successful, and Gibbard decided to expand the band into a complete project. He recruited Christopher Walla, who also recorded “Songs with Chords”, as an electric guitarist, Nicholas Harmer on bass, and Nathan Good to play drums, a configuration that released the LP Something About Airplanes in the summer of 1998. The album got favorable reviews from the independent music scene, and in 2000, the follow-up was released: We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes. Nathan Good left the band at some point during the recording of We Have the Facts. His playing on “The Employment Pages” and “Company Calls Epilogue” were kept, but Gibbard played drums on all other songs. New drummer Michael Schorr would first appear on The Forbidden Love E.P., released in fall of 2000. The following year, another LP was released, entitled The Photo Album. Limited editions of this album contained three bonus tracks, which were later released separately as The Stability E.P.

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In November, 2004 Death Cab for Cutie signed a “long-term worldwide deal” with Atlantic Records, leaving their long-time label Barsuk Records and the rank of indie record labels. Gibbard stated on the official website that nothing would change except that “Next to the picture of Barsuk holding a 7″, there will be the letter “A” on both the spine and back of our upcoming albums.” This was a marked change from Gibbard’s earlier views on major-label relations, which he said “are set up to **** you and take all your money.”. After signing to Atlantic, the band was still nervous about corporate economics, and encouraged fans to download its songs from the Internet.”.

The first and second singles off the band’s Atlantic Record release Plans were “Soul Meets Body” and “Crooked Teeth”, respectively. The full album was released in August of 2005. Plans was somewhat well-acclaimed by critics and fans, and received a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Album of 2005.

The band released a touring DVD called Drive Well, Sleep Carefully in 2005.

A live version of the band’s song “Photobooth,” is featured in the soundtrack of the Xbox 360 racing game Project Gotham Racing 3.

In early 2006, the band announced the upcoming release of Directions, eleven short films inspired by songs from the Plans album, each directed by a different person. The videos were posted one at a time at the band’s website and the DVD went on sale April 11, 2006. The iTunes Store began selling the videos (formatted for iPod) early on March 28, 2006. Lance Bangs, P.R. Brown, Ace Norton, Jeffrey Brown, Lightborne, Autumn de Wilde, Rob Schrab, Laurent Briet and Monkmus, as well as Aaron Stewart-Ahn are among directors that have contributed to the project. An episode of MTV2’s Subterranean played these videos for the whole hour plus discussion with members of the band.

Ben Gibbard formed the side project The Postal Service, with Dntel’s Jimmy Tamborello. They released the album Give Up in 2003, with the help of Chris Walla and guest vocals from Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley and Jen Wood. The Postal Service enjoyed immense “underground” popularity and Death Cab for Cutie’s mainstream rise is often credited, to some extent, to Ben’s involvement with Tamborello. Gibbard and Tamborello have confirmed that they are working on a new Postal Service album, albeit slowly, having recorded two songs as of June 2006. They have said they will begin more serious work once Death Cab returns from their summer 2006 tour.