It's finally here! Jimmy's new Dntel album, Dumb Luck, is out today and available for purchase on the mySpace Dntel store, iTunes, and your local record store.

Friends Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley), Edward Droste (Grizzly Bear), Valerie Trebeljahr and Markus Acher (Lali Puna), Mia Doi Todd, Grant Olsen and Sonya Westcott (Arthur & Yu), Andrew Broder (Fog), Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes), Christopher and Jennifer Gunst (Mystic Chords of Memory), Chris Hathwell (drummer, Moving Units) and Paul Larson (guitarist, The Minor Canon) collaborate with Dntel and contribute to this album.

Buy your copy today!

If you haven't heard already, Jimmy from Postal Service is coming out with a new album next week on April 24th, under the moniker "Dntel." The album is called Dumb Luck and will be released by Sub Pop.


Luckily for everyone, Jimmy's giving us an exclusive preview of the album on his Dntel myspace page, so visit it now here!


Dumb Luck features vocal contributions from friends Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley), Edward Droste (Grizzly Bear), Valerie Trebeljahr and Markus Acher (Lali Puna), Mia Doi Todd, Grant Olsen and Sonya Westcott (Arthur & Yu), Andrew Broder (Fog), Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes) and Christopher and Jennifer Gunst (Mystic Chords of Memory), along with the organic instrumentation by Chris Hathwell (drums, Moving Units) and Paul Larson (guitar, The Minor Canon).


To pre-order Dumb Luck, click here.


For more details on Dntel and Jimmy's other projects, including the Postal Service, visit his website at www.jimmytamborello.com.

Jimmy Tamborello makes music under the names of James Figurine, with Ben Gibbard & Jenny Lewis as The Postal Service, and also as Dntel. Jimmy has made a Dntel album for Sub Pop and it comes out on April 24th, 2007. (It may be of some interest to you that Kelly Clarkson, Captain Sensible, and Eric Bogosian were all born on this day. Or maybe not.)


Thick with Tamborello's signature electronic washes and genius beat placement, Dumb Luck is an album lyrically as much about human distance as connection. With vocal contributions from friends Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley), Edward Droste (Grizzly Bear), Valerie Trebeljahr and Markus Acher (Lali Puna), Mia Doi Todd, Grant Olsen and Sonya Westcott (Arthur & Yu), Andrew Broder (Fog), Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes) and Christopher and Jennifer Gunst (Mystic Chords of Memory), the organic instrumentation by Chris Hathwell (drummer, Moving Units) and Paul Larson (guitarist, The Minor Canon), Dumb Luck is manipulated, chopped and pasted amidst Tamborello's skittish beats, house clicks, organ washes and dreamily pixelated symphonies. The result is at once understatedly epic, ethereal and concrete.


Jimmy is a curious and interesting dude and he's created what he calls "a 40 minute drone piece," which is really him alone in the studio doing what he does in long-format. Sub Pop is giving away copies of this on CD if you pre-order the record at subpop.com and they are super limited so hurry up.


BUY HERE: http://www.subpop.com/releases/dntel/full_lengths/dumb_luck


LISTEN HERE: http://www.subpop.com/assets/audio/3131.mp3


ALL DNTEL ITEMS HERE: http://www.subpop.com/catalog/artists/dntel


All of Sub Pop's LPs come with a free download code included in the sleeve of the record! See here for more details: http://www.subpop.com/channel/megamart_features/free_mp3s_with_vinyl_purchase

Jimmy, under the moniker Dntel, is coming out with a new album called Dumb Luck, featuring friends Ed Droste of Grizzly Bear, Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley, Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes, Mia Doi Todd, and many more!


The first track "Dumb Luck" is available NOW as an mp3 download here. Anyone subscribed to Sub Pop's podcast will have access to the song as well.

Tickets for Ben's solo tour with David Bazan (of Pedro the Lion) and Johnathan Rice are now available to the public! Visit the SHOWS page on Death Cab for Cutie's website to purchase tickets.

Exciting news! Ben is embarking on a short solo tour this May. Joining him as openers are friends, David Bazan (of Pedro the Lion) and Johnathan Rice.


Fan club members of DCFC Union #1138, Death Cab for Cutie's official fan club, will be able to purchase pre-sale tickets first. Tickets to all shows (except NYC and LA) will be available on Monday, 2/26 at 3pm local time for fan club members only. NYC and LA show tickets will be available the next day, Tuesday, 2/27 at 3pm local time to fan club members only. Public sale starts first weekend of March through various ticketing outlets.


If you're not already a fan club member, visit the DCFC Union #1138 website and join now! Perks include priority ticketing, exclusive fan merch and recordings, and oh-so-much more.

For those of you unfamiliar with MOG, it is a community of music lovers and fanatics sharing their music tastes. On Ben's page here, you can see what he is listening to as well as read blogs about
random subjects.

Jimmy has released a new album under the James Figurine moniker. It is called Mistake, Mistake, Mistake, Mistake and is available through iTunes, Amazon, and a store near you. The album features contributions from Sonya Westcott (Arthur and Yu), Morgan Nagler, (Whispertown 2000), Erlend Øye (Kings of Convenience) and Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley, The Postal Service). More info can be found at www.jamesfigurine.com and
www.myspace.com/jamesfigurine.

The Postal Service have recorded a version of John Lennon's classic, "Grow Old With Me." The song will be available for download December 10 and all sales benefit Amnesty International's Human Rights efforts. It can be downloaded at Amnesty International. The song is part of a series of singles called "Make Some Noise." Each single is a cover of a John Lennon song and other artists included in the first phase of the series are The Cure who cover "Love," the Black Eyed Peas ("Power To the People"), and the Snow Patrol ("Isolation''). All songs will originally be offered only as downloads but expect the series to be released on CD at some point in 2006.

BOO! This fall's sweetest - and scariest - benefit song is DO THEY KNOW IT'S HALLOWE'EN. This single features a star-studded ensemble (Beck, Sonic Youth,The Arcade Fire, David Cross, Smoosh, Postal Service's Jimmy Tamborello,Elvira, and more) known as the NORTH AMERICAN HALLOWEEN PREVENTION INITIATIVE. Both a trick and a treat, this song is a satire - as well as a charity-benefit song with all proceeds being donated to UNICEF. Check it out on vice-recordings