Oh how we love Death Cab for Cutie. Let us count the ways. The guys taped a video playlist for MTV.com with some of their favorite music videos. See them talk about bands like De La Soul, Queensryche and, of course, Superchunk.
No we are not kidding.

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Sigur Ros and Feist and a-ha, oh my! The boys put together a lovely video pick list for our friends at mtvU and we recommend you run and go take a look. You will genuinely be surprised by a few of their choices.
But not this one.

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We hope you got the memo already but the new season of Human Giant launches tonight on MTV, so DVR it. Or watch it live if that’s how you roll.
We’ve teamed up with the Human Giants to bring you a free download each week chosen by them. This week is Hot Chip “Made In the [...]

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Just kidding, that’s not even remotely what she says. The two sat down with MTV News to talk about “The Other Boleyn Sister” but we couldn’t resist asking about ScarJo’s upcoming Tom Waits cover album. Not much in the way of news nuggets get revealed, but Portman does say Johansson sounds a bit like Nina [...]

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Valentine’s Day: populated by those who are not in love. We don’t want to offer our declarations of adoration to any unrecripocating parties, we don’t want to see any heart shaped chocolates, we don’t want any of the pre-processed fluff that the Hallmark industry wants to foist on our heads.
What we want to do it [...]

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