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Coffee Break: Top tracks from 'Give Up' and 'Transatlanticism'

Jenny Lewis, Ben Gibbard and Dave Depper of The Postal Service perform during Riot Fest 2023 at Douglass Park on September 16, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois.
Jenny Lewis, Ben Gibbard and Dave Depper of The Postal Service perform during Riot Fest 2023 at Douglass Park on September 16, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois.Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images

by Jill Riley

September 22, 2023

To celebrate two decades of Give Up and Transatlanticism, Ben Gibbard is bringing out the Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie for an unprecedented 20th-anniversary co-headline tour, hitting Minneapolis on Sunday night at the Armory.

Each night of the tour, Gibbard, the co-founder of both bands, will pull double duty performing the Postal Service’s Give Up as well as Death Cab for Cutie’s Transatlanticism from start to finish.

Are you going? Which songs are you excited to hear? If not, which tours or shows have you seen that were truly in this one-of-a-kind category?

For today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, which songs from the Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie’s 2003 albums do you want to hear?


Respond with your song ideas in the comments below.

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Songs Played
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
The Postal Service - We Will Become Silhouettes
The Postal Service - Natural Anthem
Death Cab for Cutie - The New Year
Death Cab for Cutie - Title and Registration
Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
Bonus: Death Cab for Cutie - Company Calls Epilogue