dcfc take the bait

more cowbell!

Given the obsessive volume of posts about the appearance of local indie darlings Death Cab for Cutie on television’s the o.c. [fox], it only seemed appropriate to report the set list and post a couple of screen captures found on ye olde internets. The kids at the Bait Shop (where “tickets [are] always plentiful and the band [is] never too loud to talk over”) were treated to three on air tracks:

• “Title and Registration” [$]
• “A Movie Script Ending” [$]
• “The Sound of Settling” [$]

In addition to lots of swoopy camerawork showing the guys rocking out while adults pretended to be teens pretending to be indie, the show featured a second Northwest shout-out. In a related plotline, ridiculous suggestions to improve his self-referential comic book graphic novel kept Seth away from his beloved band (and girlfriend). The source of these harebrained ideas: none other than a “marketing genius” recruited from Fantagraphics.

And there you have it, the final entry on the intersection of a real band and a fake rock venue. [Ed: we can only hope. --at least Modest Mouse's appearance was largely ignored.]

related: In “Death Shows for Cuties” [salon] Hillary Frey argues for an end to indie bands as teen drama prop.