Feature: Death Cab for Cutie is now big business with No. 1 album
June 3rd, 2008, 4:04 pm by Jaime Galvan
By Erin Podolsky/Detroit Free Press
For long time followers of Death Cab for Cutie, the news was a pleasantly unexpected sock to the tender-hearted jaw, just as it was for singer Ben Gibbard. Two weeks ago, the Seattle quartet’s sixth full-length album, “Narrow Stairs,” entered the Billboard Top 200 at No. 1, putting the band in such company as Madonna, Mariah Carey and George Strait, just to name a few artists who held the top spot in the past few weeks. It’s a milestone that cements the fact that Death Cab isn’t a little indie band that could anymore - this is an indie band that can, did and does.
