Death Cab For Cutie Announces Special ‘Plans’ Anniversary Shows In Seattle, Chicago, NYC

Death Cab For Cutie’s major-label debut, Plans, turns 20 this year and the band is announcing with shows in three cities to commemorate the occasion, including a headlining gig at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle.

Aug. 2 is the homecoming date for the band from Bellingham, Washington, which will see support from Brooklyn-based band Nation of Language. 

They’ll follow that up with an Aug. 5 show at the Chicago Theatre, also with support from Nation of Language, wrapping with two shows at the Brooklyn Paramount in New York, Aug. 8 and Aug. 10. The Brooklyn shows see support from  The American Analog Set.

Tickets will be available for presale on Thursday, Feb. 13 at 10 a.m. local time and will go on sale on Friday, Feb. 14t 10 a.m. local time for Seattle and New York and 9 a.m. for Chicago. 

Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard will also take part at Noise Pop Festival in San Francisco, playing Grace Cathedral Feb. 25.

Gibbard says in the announcement, “Plans is an album that changed the trajectory of Death Cab for Cutie forever — it was our major label debut, it went platinum, and earned us our first GRAMMY nominations. We are only playing a few shows in its honor as we’re currently working on our next studio album, but we would be remiss to not take the opportunity to celebrate the 20th anniversary in some fashion.”

The shows build on the band’s 2024 world tour with Death Cab frontman Ben Gibbard’s other acclaimed project, The Postal Service, which played arenas in multiple continents in celebration of Death Cab’s Transatlanticism.