"Rand McNally," the fourth song on "Asphalt Meadows," Death Cab for Cutie s excellent album from last year, is a nostalgic reflection on a relationship that happened in a time before we all became connected online.
“Whenever we start playing that song, ‘Asphalt Meadows,’ usually all I can smell is weed,” Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard announced to a shoulder-to-shoulder packed Jannus Live Tuesday night. But in this case, all Ben was getting was cigar smoke. “It’s the weirdest fuckin’ thing. It just keeps going.”
There are few bigger indie success stories in the past 20 years than Death Cab for Cutie. The group, founded in Bellingham, Washington in the mid-’90s,
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