Death Cab For Cutie / Postal Service frontman Ben Gibbard has not been touring a ton, but he'll be coming to San Francisco in June to do a special solo show at Davies Symphony Hall, along with opener Thao & The Get Down Stay Down. The show on June 8 was just announced this week, and tickets go on sale tomorrow (Friday) at 10 a.m. PT.
Last we heard, Gibbard announced he'd be putting out a covers album this year, specifically a full-album cover of Teenage Fanclub's 1991 album Bandwagonesque. As Pitchfork reported, it's part of the Sounds Delicious series from Turntable Kitchen in which contemporary artists produce limited edition cover albums sent to subscribers on vinyl (and then available to them for digital download, too). Already the series has featured the likes of Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado covering Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run, and Yumi Zouma covering Oasis’ (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?.
Gibbard may be doing some Teenage Fanclub tunes at the June show in SF, and he says of Bandwagonesque, "[It's] my favorite record by my favorite band of all time. It came along at a pivotal time in my musical life and I’ve loved it for over 25 years."
Gibbard did not do any Teenage Fanclub tunes at a pair of shows he did in January at Chicago's Thalia Hall. See one of those setlists here, which featured mostly Death Cab and Postal Service tunes.
Death Cab for Cutie last put out an album two years ago, 2015's Kintsugi, and Gibbard last went on tour with Postal Service bandmate Jimmy Tamborello in 2013.