The DCFC guys we'll adoringly refer to by their first names have gathered a fine lot of news as of late. Hold on to your bonnet, Ben, Chris, Nick, and Jason have been busy! Here's the skinny in boardroom agenda format:

• New Death Cab for Cutie album has a name!
• We are happy to announce that the new Death Cab album slated for release in May has a name: NARROW STAIRS.
• Please stay tuned for more info about the new album which is coming soon.

• Death Cab for Cutie will be at Coachella 2008!
• The band are confirmed to perform at the Coachella Music and Arts festival on Saturday, April 26th.
• Single day tickets are sold out but 3-day passes are still available at www.coachella.com.
• It's a great line-up this year including The Racontuers, Portishead, Kraftwerk, My Morning Jacket and many others.

• Chris Walla's album released yesterday and there's a video!
• Chris Walla'’s solo debut album Field Manual is out in stores.
• The stellar imaginary review should be posted very soon!
• I'm really loving the album.
• If you buy the album from www.barsuk.com before February 4th or at select indie records stores across the country, you will receive three bonus tracks.
• Chris has just finished the first video from the album for "Sing Again" which can be found via the ecard here: www.chriswalla.barsuk.com as well as streaming tracks, photos and more.

• Ben Gibbard scored the Kurt Cobain inspired movie About A Son!
• TIG will be hosting a giveaway in a couple weeks - stay tuned!
• If the beautiful film Kurt Cobain About A Son hasn't played at your local art-house cinema since it came out last year, you're about to get another chance to hear the film's score, which was composed and recorded by Ben Gibbard and Seattle musician/producer Steve Fisk.
• The movie finally be available on DVD on February 19th.
• Barsuk Records is releasing the original film score album digitally on February 19th as well.
• A limited-edition double-vinyl version of the score will be out in April.
• You can get more information about the soundtrack album and the original score album here.
• PLEASE NOTE: Neither the soundtrack album nor the original score album contains any music of Nirvana or Kurt Cobain.
• The soundtrack contains music that Kurt loved and that influenced him
• The soundtrack also contains a cover that Ben did of the great Beat Happening song 'Indian Summer'
• The film score album contains only original instrumental music that Ben and Steve did for the film.

• There's a new and improved Death Cab for Cutie website!

We're still working on the powerpoint preso summary. For the time being you'll have to refer to your hand outs.