Death Cab, Snoop, Dashboard to Headline Festival

Click here to see which other bands have been slated to perform at this year's Langerado event in Miami.

The initial lineup for Florida's 7th annual Langerado Music Festival has been unveiled, and already the event is gearing up to be an absolute must. Death Cab For Cutie, Snoop Dogg, Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, and Gym Class Heroes will all perform, as well as Dashboard Confessional, Broken Social Scene, Cold War Kids, Girl Talk, and the Faint.

Ben Gibbard on Death Cab's 10th Anniversary

Exclusive: The brainy bard tells SPIN.com about the quartet's 1998 debut album and its cathartic track "Champagne in a Paper Cup."
Death Cab For Cutie (Gibbard, far right) / Photo by Autumn de Wilde

It's hard to believe, but it's been 10 years since the release of Death Cab for Cutie's debut record, Something About Airplanes. To honor the anniversary, Barsuk reissues the album this week with an additional disc of live performances, recorded at Seattle's now-defunct Crocodile Café in 1998 when frontman Ben Gibbard was just a blossoming moper.

From the Vault: Death Cab, Rivers Cuomo, MTV

We're feeling nostalgic this week. Click here to find out why!
(left to right): Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard (Ryan Russell) / Weezer's Rivers Cuomo

Maybe it's the fact that recently the names in the news are oldtimers like AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, and Metallica, but lately we've been feeling a bit nostalgic.

SPIN.com's Best of the Week, October 13-19

Read about Oasis, Feist, MGMT, Against Me! and more in our NEW EDITORS' BLOG. Plus: Check out the week's top stories and reviews!
Feist, Against Me!, MGMT and Oasis

This week we launched an all-new daily feature on SPIN.com -- an opinionated (and humorous) editors' blog. And SPIN editors certainly had a lot on their minds: Against Me!'s live performance, Feist's influence on childrens' musical tastes, Oasis' staying power, MGMT's seriousness (of lack thereof), and more -- but thankfully, Joe the Plumber isn't included.

Neil Young Kicks Off North American Tour

The master rocks the classics in St. Paul, with his disciples Death Cab for Cutie and Everest opening the show.

Last night at St. Paul, MN's Xcel Energy Center, Neil Young kicked off his North American tour with a solid opening lineup that demonstrated the contemporary influence of his storied catalogue -- and breathed new vitality into songs more than three decades old.

SPIN.com's Best of the Week, October 6-13

Read up on Green Day's next album and Metallica's tour, get spankin' new tunes from Minus the Bear and Manchester Orchestra, and check out the week's other top stories!
Green Day

As you get ready to celebrate Columbus Day, check out our scoop on Green Day's next full-length and Metallica's upcoming tour, and listen to exclusive new tunes from Manchester Orchestra, Minus the Bear, and others. Plus: Get more of the best from the past week:

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