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The United States Postal Service has been at the forefront of the political conversation for the last few weeks. And, incidentally, so has the Postal Service, Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello's enduring indie-pop project, mostly because it's hard not to make a joke about the duo whenever the postal service comes up. Well, Gibbard has…
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The Postal Service: – “Turn Around”
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Last month, we celebrated the 10 year anniversary of the release of the Postal Service’s sole album Give Up in conjunction with the release of “A Line Of Tattered String,” one of two brand new tracks from the upcoming reissue of the LP. Here’s “Turn Around,” the second and final bit of ...
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Vampire Weekend: Mumford & Sons, Phoenix, Vampire Weekend, Killers Headlining Lollapalooza 2013
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Chicago’s Lollapalooza festival, which comes to Grant Park 8/2-4, won’t announce its lineup until next month. But the Chicago Tribune‘s Greg Kot, who is never wrong about this stuff, is reporting that this year’s slate of headliners includes Mumford & Sons, Phoenix, Vampire Weekend, and the Killer...
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The Postal Service: Spoof audition tape for The features Foo Fighters, Blink-182, Guns N'Roses, Moby
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The Funny Or Die video also features Ben Gibbard, Aimee Mann and Al Yankovic
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The Postal Service: Watch Long-Lost Audition Footage
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The Postal Service has never exactly been a wellspring of comedy, but they did have the good sense to recruit Tom Scharpling, who is extremely good at this sort of thing, to make them a pretty amazing video. Scharpling’s video purports to be the lost 2002 footage that led Ben Gibbard to join Jimmy Tamborello’s [...]
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The Postal Service: Deconstructing: The Return Of The And Why 2013 Should Be The New 2003
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In 2003, indie rock was undergoing an identity crisis. The “garage rock” bands had already peaked. “Dance-punk” was barely getting started. 2003 was perhaps the only year since the dawn of the internet without a real buzzword genre (unless you count crunk), and that lack of a scene made it arguably the bes...
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