Icon: Death Cab for Cutie
By Chris Ryan, eMusic Contributor
You can imagine Ben Gibbard's late-'90s Bellingham, Washington, bedroom; a copy of Tape Op magazine, well thumbed-through, lying on the floor; a Low album on the record player; a Tascam 4-track recorder sitting on a nightstand, with an acoustic guitar leaning against it. Death Cab for Cutie, the solo project Gibbard would have been working on at the time, taking a break from his band All-Time Quarterback, sprung from these somewhat modest beginnings. And the rise… more »