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  Watch the Postal Service Kick Off Reunion Tour With Jenny Lewis in Reno

  April 10, 2013 – The Postal Service delivered the first performance on their long-awaited reunion tour at Reno's Grand Sierra Theatre last night (April 9), and footage from the gig has arrived online.  Ben Gibbard lead laptop virtuoso Jimmy Tamborello through Give Up highlight "We Will Become Silhouettes," as he turns in a nimble vocal performance before running over to a drumkit to supply punchy percussion. …
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  Stream the Postal Service's Second Never-Before-Heard Track, 'Turn Around'

  March 21, 2013 – It's a bittersweet moment for fans of the Postal Service. When the electro-pop duo of Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard and Dntel's Jimmy Tamborello announced the 10th-anniversary reissue of their lone, beloved 2003 album Give Up (due out on April 9 via Sub Pop), the track list included two previously unheard songs. …
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  Indie Rock Royalty Save the Postal Service's Unfunny, Overlong 'Funny or Die' Sketch

  March 5, 2013 – The Postal Service are poking gentle fun at their past even as they're extending their future.The Best Show on WFMU radio host Tom Scharpling has directed a Funny or Die video that imagines what auditions would have been like for Ben Gibbard's job in the laptop-pop duo with Jimmy Tamborello. …
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  The Postal Service Deliver Full Summer Tour Schedule

  February 19, 2013 – The Postal Service's reunion tour is reaching such great heights. The digi-pop duo, made up of Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard and Dntel's Jimmy Tamborello, have announced a bunch of new dates on their 10th anniversary trek around the world.Among the new destinations: Maryland's Merriweather Post Pavilion, California's the Greek Theater, and Colorado's Red Rocks Amphitheater. …
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  Hear the Postal Service's Never-Before-Heard 'A Tattered Line of String'

  February 11, 2013 – Because it's the band's one and only album, the Postal Service's 2003 poptronica gem Give Up, feels like a perfect specimen. The LP, which Sub Pop is re-releasing as a Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition on April 9, has no skippable tracks; it was never weighed down by a flabby follow-up. But perfect albums are delicate things. …
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  Sasquatch! 2013 Lineup: Postal Service, Vampire Weekend, Death Grips, the xx, and More

  February 5, 2013 – The Postal Service, Vampire Weekend, the xx, Mumford & Sons, and more have been booked to play this year's Sasquatch! Music Festival. …
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  The Postal Service Reunion Expands Into Full-On Headlining Tour

  February 4, 2013 – The Postal Service aren't giving up on their nascent reunion after their previously reported festival dates. …
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  The Postal Service, Blur, My Bloody Valentine, Wu-Tang to Play Primavera Sound 2013

  January 23, 2013 – With a booking policy neatly balanced between indie heavyweights, alt-rock elders, and experimental outsiders, Barcelona's Primavera Festival has developed into one of Europe's most respected festivals, something like a cross between Coachella (without, hurrah, the superfluous EDM) and ATP (without, alas, the chalets). …
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  The Postal Service Reunion Is Really a Real Thing Now

  January 22, 2013 – It's official: the Postal Service are reuniting this spring. …
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  The Postal Service Tease Some Kind of 2013 Reunion

  January 21, 2013 – Earlier this month on The Colbert Report, the usually plugged-in host Stephen Colbert, as part of a unusually awkward interview even by Colbert standards, informed guest Ben Gibbard that "probably most people know you from Death Cab for Cutie." That's news to SPIN: As our own Dan Weiss wrote in a review of Gibbard's new solo album Former Lives, "his best-known work is a side project, the Postal Service." Death Cab, after all, never got  …
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