On 7 February 2025, The Postal Service released a live recording of their cover of “Enjoy the Silence” from the 2023-2024 reunion tour, on the benefit charity compilation Good Music to Lift Los Angeles. The compilation was available for 24 hours only, and benefited various Los Angeles area charities in…
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On a 2025 episode of the Bandsplain podcast, Ben Gibbard stated (perhaps in jest) that he would make a second Postal Service album if English rock band The La’s themselves ever released a second album.
In August 2024, ahead of the band’s UK and European leg of the tour, Gibbard reflected on whether there could be a second The Postal Service album, noting: “I think the main reason that a second Postal Service record has never come to fruition – and will never come to…
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In late summer 2023, The Postal Service reunited again for a co-headlining anniversary tour with Death Cab for Cutie . The Postal Service performed Give Up in its entirety, while Death Cab for Cutie performed Transatlanticism in its entirety, in celebration of the 20th anniversaries of both albums. The tour…
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On December 4, 2020, The Postal Service released the live album Everything Will Change via Sub Pop Records, featuring the complete live recordings from the documentary/concert film of the same name that was released in 2014, remastered and available in audio format for the first time. Live tracks “Natural Anthem”…
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On October 6, 2020, The Postal Service created new social media accounts for the band and teased an announcement for the following day, sparking speculation about new music. The announcement was a mock video conference featuring Gibbard, Tamborello, and Lewis along with several musicians and celebrities urging people in the…
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Jenny Lewis toured with Death Cab for Cutie in the summer of 2019, in support of their On the Line and Thank You for Today albums, respectively. On select dates, Gibbard invited Lewis to join DCFC for their set’s encore, and DCFC played “Nothing Better”, with Gibbard and Lewis recreating…
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Jimmy Tamborello produced a remix of Death Cab for Cutie’s 2018 song “Summer Years”.
As an end punctuation mark to their career, The Postal Service released the feature-length documentary concert film Everything Will Change on October 7, 2014, filmed during their two performances at the Greek Theater in Berkeley, CA, July 26–27, 2013. Directed by Justin Mitchell, the film intersperses backstage tapes and interviews…
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On August 3, 2013, Ben Gibbard announced on Twitter that the Lollapalooza after-show would be the last Postal Service performance ever, and that the band would formally disband permanently after the show, finally quashing rumors of a highly anticipated second album. The band played their last live show at the…
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