"There never really was a plan to do a second album." That's Ben Gibbard talking to Rolling Stone's Rock & Roll Daily a couple of months ago about the Postal Service. Sweden's Miike Snow-- a trio of "Toxic" producers/writers Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg, plus Fires of Rome front guy Andrew Wyatt-- do a credible job of going Pos...

-- Dntel-- aka Jimmy Tamborello aka Jimmy Figurine aka the other dude in the Postal Service-- is cleaning out his closet. His new/old three-disc set Early Works for Me If It Works For You II hits April 14 via Phthalo. It features the first two Dntel albums, 1998's Early Works for Me If It Works for You and 1999's Something Always Goes Wrong, alo...

Photo by Nilina Mason-CampbellIron and Wine released their debut album in 2002, which in a weird way makes Sam Beam the spiritual godfather of the all the wispy beardy-folk masses swarming the planet in 2009. In any case, Beam's now deep enough into his career that Iron and Wine have enough material for a double-CD rarities compilation. And his...

Some advice to all those going postal (sorry) while pining for a new Postal Service record: Give Up. Ben Gibbard laid out the cold hard truth in a recent interview with Rolling Stone's Rock & Roll Daily: "It's the record that never seems to want to come out. It's also just never been a priority...There never really was a plan to do a sec...