Posts Tagged ‘Ben Gibbard’

Videos for the Veekend

Saturday, December 12th, 2009

After navigating through the depths of the internet during the week (and the quagmire that is youtube), you are bound to find a handful of interesting material. Here are a couple of gems that you might like:

As covered before, Amsterdam Acoustics is one of my favorite newly discovered video sites on the web. It’s like Black Cab Sessions only with beautiful Dutch scenery added to the mix. American act Rue Royale, who is widely more popular across the pond than stateside, performed a great stripped down version of “Blame” for them a while back:



Chicago hip-hop artist Lupe Fiasco put out another mixtape this past November. One of the tracks features him masterfully rapping over Radioheads “National Anthem”.


Ben Gibbard has been known to cover a couple of artists in his time. This time, the Death Cab frontman decides to put his spin on Bjork’s “Joga”.


Finally, SanFran based Yours Truly put out a great video capturing a recent Fuck Buttons performance.


Ben Gibbard // Covers

Monday, February 23rd, 2009


Ben Gibbard loves the cover songs – and by loves and I mean he has an uncontrollable need to cover everything under the sun. No artist, no song is off limit when Gibbard picks up his acoustic guitar and declares “OK, this one is a cover song”. Here are just a few examples of the, literally, countless Youtube videos of Gibbard playing non-Death Cab & non-Postal Service songs: