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Every band on the rise eventually has to decide: Do you want to be successful, or do you want to be good? As if those two things live on opposite ends of a seesaw. As if wanting one automatically means betraying the other.
September 17, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Every band on the rise eventually has to decide: Do you want to be successful, or do you want to be good? As if those two things live on opposite ends of a seesaw. As if wanting one automatically means betraying the other.
Bethany Cosentino is the host of 2004: The Year Indie Rock Broke, and she's not coming to it as an outside observer. She was a teenager in Los Angeles in 2004, already finding most of the bands that would later show up on The O.C. before the show got to them.
September 16, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Bethany Cosentino is the host of 2004: The Year Indie Rock Broke, and she's not coming to it as an outside observer. She was a teenager in Los Angeles in 2004, already finding most of the bands that would later show up on The O.C. before the show got to them.
Josh Rosenfeld co-founded Barsuk Records, and Death Cab for Cutie was on the label for its first four albums — the whole run before the major label, before the O.C. name-drops, before any of it.
September 16, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Josh Rosenfeld co-founded Barsuk Records, and Death Cab for Cutie was on the label for its first four albums — the whole run before the major label, before the O.C. name-drops, before any of it.
Get ready to go back in time to the year 2004, when Seth Cohen is on The O.C., saying Death Cab for Cutie is his favorite band, while Natalie Portman is in Garden State, exclaiming that a Shins song will change your life.
September 16, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Get ready to go back in time to the year 2004, when Seth Cohen is on The O.C., saying Death Cab for Cutie is his favorite band, while Natalie Portman is in Garden State, exclaiming that a Shins song will change your life.