{"id":805502,"date":"2020-03-20T12:40:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T18:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=970428"},"modified":"2020-03-20T12:40:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T18:40:51","slug":"death-cab-for-cuties-ben-gibbard-addresses-covid-19-on-new-song-life-in-quarantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/death-cab-for-cuties-ben-gibbard-addresses-covid-19-on-new-song-life-in-quarantine\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Cab for Cutie\u2019s Ben Gibbard Addresses COVID-19 on New Song \u2018Life in Quarantine\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With Washington State reeling from the effects of the coronavirus<\/a> pandemic, Death Cab for Cutie<\/a> frontman Ben Gibbard<\/a> has written a folk song, \u201cLife in Quarantine,\u201d for his home state. Over gentle acoustic guitar, he sings about empty streets, bars, and cafes, and streetlights that change for no reason. He describes airports and train stations \u201cfull of desperate people\u201d and the supermarket Safeway looking like something from the Eastern Bloc. \u201cNational Guard is on their way to protect us from our neighbors,\u201d he sings, \u201cand everyone who has tried to swim for it has drowned out past the breakers.\u201d It all revolves around the chorus, \u201cNo one is going anywhere soon.\u201d He premiered the song via Seattle newspaper The Stranger<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although the song itself is not particularly hopeful, Gibbard closed his video with a plea for Seattleites to look out for those less fortunate. \u201cI know this is a really fucked-up and scary time for everybody, including myself,\u201d he said in the video. \u201cAnd I know that we\u2019re all trying to figure out what we can do to make it better and what we can do to alleviate the suffering of someone else.\u201d He urged those with the means to donate any extra tents or sleeping bags to the organization Aurora Commons<\/a>, which would distribute them to the homeless population. He closed his message saying, \u201d Let\u2019s all get through this together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Washington State has suffered the most deaths related to COVID-19<\/a> since authorities started tracing the pandemic\u2019s impact in the U.S. Like the leaders of many other states, Governor Jay Inslee has asked his citizens to practice social distancing<\/a> and to close bars and restaurants temporarily.<\/p>\n

Gibbard this week started livestreaming daily performances<\/a> for a series he\u2019s dubbed Ben Gibbard: Live From Home <\/em>at 4 p.m. PST. \u201cI know you are all freaked out right now,\u201d he wrote in a letter to his fans. \u201cI am, too. And while I\u2019m proud that we\u2019re all doing the necessary things at the moment to help flatten the curve, I know it has left us incredibly isolated. \u2026 Some of you have traveled great distances and\/or shelled out large sums of money to see us play and that has never been lost on me. So in this crazy unprecedented time, I\u2019d like to return my favor by coming to you.\u201d<\/p>\n

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With Washington State reeling from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard has written a folk song, \u201cLife in Quarantine,\u201d for his home state. Over gentle acoustic guitar, he sings about empty streets, bars, and cafes, and streetlights that change for no reason. He describes airports and train stations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 19:47:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}