Death Cab For Cutie joins host Stephen Kallao

Death Cab For Cutie’s new album Asphalt Meadows is the result of a songwriting experiment that went…very well! Each band member was allowed to spend 24 hours on a song, before passing the track along to the next person who had free reign to do with it as they wished, no strings attached. On the World Cafe, lead singer Ben Gibbard and Dave Depper share about why this was a success, but probably wouldn’t have been if they were all in their ‘20s. Plus, Death Cab performs some of the new music live.  

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*The Rolling Stones “Miss You” Some Girls
Death Cab For Cutie “Crooked Teeth” Recorded live for World Cafe
Death Cab For Cutie “Here To Forever” Recorded Live for World Cafe
Death Cab for Cutie “Roman Candles” Asphalt Meadows
Death Cab for Cutie “Roman Candles” Recorded Live for World Cafe
Death Cab for Cutie “Title And Registration” Recorded Live for World Cafe
Talking Heads “Slippery People” Speaking In Tongues
Khruangbin “Time (You and I)” Mordechai
The Lumineers“Submarines” The Lumineers

Hour Two
*Chris Stapleton “Tennessee Whiskey” Traveller
Caroline Polachek “Welcome to My Island” Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
The Cure “Friday I’m In Love” Wish
Say She She “Pink Roses” Prism
Moby “Run On” Play
ZG Smith “Nighttime Animal” Nighttime Animal EP
The National “Bloodbuzz Ohio” High Violet
Paramore “This Is Why” This Is Why
Leon Bridges “Bad Bad News” Good Thing
Buddy Guy “Damn Right I’ve Got The Blues” Damn Right, I’ve Got The Blues
Jamie Cullum “Lover, You Should’ve Come Over” Twentysomething
Sylvan Esso “Didn’t Care” No Rules Sandy
The Waterboys “The Whole Of The Moon” This Is The Sea

*Optional Song