.

Listen: Death Cab for Cutie's Atmospheric Ballad 'You Are A Tourist'

Stream the first single from the band's new album 'Codes and Keys'

Comment
By 
March 29, 2011 2:50 PM ET
Listen: Death Cab for Cutie's Atmospheric Ballad 'You Are A Tourist'

Death Cab For Cutie have promised that their forthcoming seventh album Codes and Keys – in stores May 31st – will emphasize vintage keyboards and electronic textures, but "You Are A Tourist," the record's first single, signals that longtime fans shouldn't worry about the group abandoning the tuneful rock that made them famous. "You Are A Tourist" isn't much of a departure at all – if anything, it's less a step toward the electronica of frontman Ben Gibbard's side project the Postal Service and more a jump in the direction of U2's more recent material.

 

To read the new issue of Rolling Stone online, plus the entire RS archive: Click Here

prev
Artist to Watch: The Weeknd
Music Main Next
The Tragedy of Britney Spears: Rolling Stone's 2008 Cover Story

Picks From Around the Web


blog comments powered by Disqus
Daily Newsletter

Get the latest RS news in your inbox.

Sign up to receive the Rolling Stone newsletter and special offers from RS and its
marketing partners.

X

We may use your e-mail address to send you the newsletter and offers that may interest you, on behalf of Rolling Stone and its partners. For more information please read our Privacy Policy.

Most Popular

Photos & Videos

Go To Content

Random Notes: Hottest Rock Pictures

Go To Content Play Video

Video: Kanye and Ben Affleck's 'SNL' Teaser Clip

Go To Content

Gallery: 2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction

Best Ever Lists
100 Greatest Singers

Other Lists

Song Stories

“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

More Song Stories entries »