Death Cab For Cutie promoting net neutrality

Death Cab For Cutie leads a list of artists supporting Rock The Net, a new initiative launched by the Future of Music Coalition (FMC) to promote the issue of net neutrality. The FMC is supporting efforts by Massachusetts Democratic Representative Edward Markey to get a bill passed on Capitol Hill making the concept into law. Net neutrality means that the Internet remains a level playing field, with everyone from the largest corporation to the smallest blogger having the same access. But the big telecommunications companies that provide most of the "pipeline" for the Web would like to enforce a sort of toll in exchange for bandwidth, making sites that can afford the toll load faster while slowing down others that can't.

Some 256 bands and 59 labels have backed the FMC campaign, with R.E.M., the Donnas, Boots Riley, Ted Leo and many others joining Death Cab For Cutie on the list.

More information and a petition can be found at futureofmusic.org.

Death Cab frontman Ben Gibbard will head out on a solo tour this spring, beginning on May 3rd in Minneapolis. Meanwhile, Death Cab guitarist Chris Walla will release his first solo album, titled It's Unsustainable, this fall.

Death Cab For Cutie is taking a break after touring for nearly all of 2006 behind its most recent album, Plans.
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