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...

The Funny Or Die video also features Ben Gibbard, Aimee Mann and Al Yankovic

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 [...]

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...

After being hounded for nearly a decade about a Postal Service reunion, Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello will finally satisfying fans with a full blown U.S. tour