This site’s top two favorite topics for the month of September? Death Cab for Cutie and Hurricane Katrina. How fitting that the two issues have now merged by way of a fundraiser at the Showbox:

Wednesday September 21st
A benefit for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts featuring DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE with HARVEY DANGER and special guests.
$30.00 advance and day of show at TicketsWest.
Doors at 8pm. 21+ [showboxonline]

Tickets go onsale on Friday morning. Try not to feel like a total jerk for being excited that it took a natural disaster and government incompetence to give you a chance to see Death Cab for Cutie in a mid-sized venue just before they set off to conquer the universe on their Plans tour. Just try not to think about that, it’s still for a good cause.

Looking for other benefit situations — I’m still keeping the Katrina Benefit Roundup [mb_seattle] up-to-date. Go ahead and add it to your bookmarks and refresh for the latest results.