How To Stream Death Cab for Cutie's iHeartRadio Album Release Party

Death Cab for Cutie is releasing their ninth studio album, Thank You For Today, on August 17th via Atlantic Records, but the band is celebrating a day early during their exclusive iHeartRadio Album Release Party. During the intimate show in Los Angeles, the band, who is also recently headlined ALT 98.7's Summer Camp, will be performing new music live, in addition to some fan favorites. 

Thank You For Today follows Death Cab's 2015 album Kintsugi, and features 10 new songs, including their single "Gold Rush," which the band shared back in June. The guys began work on the LP in late 2017 and early 2018 in Santa Monica, California, in producer Rich Costey's studio. Ben Gibbard says of the upcoming album, "I realized early on in the process that I wanted to write a record that is very much who we are. I wanted to go more inward, and create something more personal."

The new album's title comes from a phrase that Costey said to another band he was working with at the time, at the end of each session; he would say "Thank you for today." As a result, the guys of Death Cab started saying the phrase too. Bassist Nick Harmer explained, "We started saying it to each other every day, no matter what kind of day it had been. Whether it had been frustrating or a really great day, we'd all shake each other's hands and say 'Thank you for today.' As time went on, it really started to mean something to us. It's almost like a Rorschach test, in that it's an oddly adaptable statement. And when we were thinking about what to call the album, it just seemed to fit so perfectly."

How To Stream The Concert

Fans can tune in free for a video stream of the iHeartRadio Album Release Party with Death Cab for Cutie on Thursday, August 16th, at 8pm ET/5pm PT via the official iHeartRadio YouTube Channel.

Get pumped for iHeartRadio Album Release Party by checking out some of their Thank You For Today songs below.

"Gold Rush"

"I Dreamt We Spoke Again"