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Noise Pop Announces 2011 Lineup Additions

BEN GIBBARD (DEATH CAB), NO AGE, HOW TO DRESS WELL,
PEANUT BUTTER WOLF, AESOP ROCK,
DAM-FUNK, KID KOALA, ALEXI MURDOCH


Ben Gibbard

Seminal independent music festival Noise
Pop
is proud to announce new additions to their already amazing lineup, as well as the details of their
first-ever pop-up shop, the Noise Pop Up Shop a month long Pop Up Store and party. Bands who will be joining the
nineteenth annual Noise Pop lineup include:

*Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard, in a rare solo show, who will be playing both DCFC and Postal Service songs at
the Great American Music Hall on Feb 27. Zach Rogue of acclaimed band Rogue Wave will open this show.
*Critically lauded duo No Age playing at Rickshaw Stop on Feb 26

*Hotly tipped up-and-comers How to Dress Well playing at Cafe du Nord on Feb 26

*Hip hop’s very own Peanut Butter Wolf and Dam Funk playing at Public Works on Feb 26
*A night with Aesop Rock and Kimya Dawson at the Great American Music Hall on Feb 25

*Turntable master Kid Koala playing at Mighty on Feb 25

*Singer/songwriter Alexi Murdoch playing at Swedish American Hall on Feb 25

The complete list of confirmed headlining bands (thus far) is below.


ADMIRAL RADLEY

AESOP ROCK

ALEXI MURDOCH

BATTLEHOOCH

BEN GIBBARD

BEST COAST

GEOGRAPHER
DAM FUNK

DAN DEACON (SOLO)
FILM SCHOOL

HOW TO DRESS WELL

KID KOALA

KIMYA DAWSON
MAX BEMIS (SAY ANYTHING)
NO AGE

NOBUNNY

PEANUT BUTTER WOLF
TAMARYN
TED LEO (SOLO)

THE CONCRETES
THE GROWLERS
THE STONE FOXES
WAVVES

YO LA TENGO

VERSUS

ZACH ROGUE (ROGUE WAVE)

Noise Pop Festival badges, which provide entry to all Noise Pop Festival events, will be available to purchase for $160
at www.noisepop.com.

In addition to these new shows, Noise Pop has partnered with the Upper Playground gallery to open a month-long
Pop Up Shop from February 2 to February 27. Noise Pop will take over the art space FIFTY24SF
(http://www.fifty24sf.com/), located in the heart of San Francisco’s vibrant and eclectic Lower Haight neighborhood,
and will transform the space into a multipurpose center. By day, it will serve as a merchandise store, art gallery, and
information center; by night, it will become a theatre and performance space. Each night will see a different partner
co-presenting each event, from SF Weekly to YoursTru.ly bringing new audiences and new experiences to Noise Pop
attendees and the SF masses. Open Wednesday through Sunday from 6-10 pm, check out the full schedule here.


Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel show up in person at Central Park tribute

Singer songwriter duo Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel showed up in person at a Central Park, New York tribute concert where they performed with celebrity fans.
The tribute concert on June 8 saw more than 30 artists showing up and performing.
Brendan Benson, Ben Gibbard, St. Vincent, Joan Osborne, Marc Cohn and Shawn Colvin played Simon & [...]

Zooey Deschanel Married Ben Gibbard

Zooey Deschanel’s “(500) Days” of single living are over.
The Katy Perry-deadringer wed Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard in a ceremony over the weekend, according to PEOPLE Magazine. The couple reportedly tied the knot near Seattle, Washington on Saturday.

Earliet that day, Ben’s bandmate Chris Walla Tweeted, “Wedding day!! So excited,” but didn’t identify Ben [...]

Zooey Deschanel ties the knot with Ben Gibbard

American actress Zooey Deschanel has reportedly tied the knot with Death Cab for Cutie singer Ben Gibbard.
According to a source, Deschanel, 29, and Gibbard, who is also in the indie band the Postal Service, got married in Washington, reports People magazine.
The couple got engaged last year when Gibbard, 33, presented Deschanel with a three-carat diamond [...]

Jay Farrar & Ben Gibbard:
To Release Kerouac Tribute

Jay Farrar And Benjamin Gibbard Join Forces For New Album Inspired By Jack Kerouac’s Big Sur
One Fast Move Or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur Out October 20

One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur, a new album featuring 12 original songs composed and performed by Jay Farrar of Son Volt and Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie – with lyrics based on the prose of Jack Kerouac’s 1962 novel Big Sur – is set for an October 20 release along with a feature-length documentary of the same title in which both Gibbard and Farrar appear.

Gibbard and Farrar, having never previously met, discovered a mutual kinship in their passion for Kerouac’s work while recording several songs for the documentary.

After the initial San Francisco recording session in July 2007, they decided to develop the project further to create an album using Kerouac’s own words from the book as the lyrics.

Big Sur is an evocative account of a time in Kerouac’s life when he’d “come undone,” both emotionally and spiritually. He escapes to a cabin in Big Sur to confront his inner demons and find a modicum of peace by the sea.

Gibbard stayed in the original cabin Kerouac wrote about, to compose songs for his band’s 2008 Grammy-nominated album, Narrow Stairs. For many years, Jay Farrar’s songwriting has been inspired and influenced by Kerouac’s compositional style.

The album and film will be released on October 20, the day before the 40th anniversary of Kerouac’s death, as a stand alone CD, a CD/DVD package, a limited edition boxed set packaged with the novel, a 40-page book on the documentary and the CD/DVD. The album will additionally be released on vinyl.

One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur track listing:

1. California Zephyr
2. Low Life Kingdom
3. Willamine
4. All In One
5. Breathe Our Iodine
6. These Roads Don’t Move
7. Big Sur
8. One Fast Move Or I¹m Gone
9. Final Horrors
10. Sea Engines
11. The Void
12. San Francisco

More on the Kerouac film can be found here.