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Death Cab for Cutie's First Ave set list

More than half the new album was mixed in with old favorites.

By Chris Riemenschneider

May 23, 2011 at 2:11AM

(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Death Cab for Cutie mixed old and new over two hours at First Avenue. / Photo by Leslie Plesser (Leslie_Plesser/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

The full Death Cab for Cutie review is online now. See the Vita.mn photo gallery here. Tickets go on sale Monday at 10 a.m. for the band's Aug. 26 return engagement at Roy Wilkins Auditorium. Here's last night's set list:

I Will Possess Your Heart / The New Year / Why You'd Want to Live Here / A Movie Script Ending / Some Boys / Doors Unlocked and Open / Photobooth / Long Division / Grapevine Fires / Codes and Keys / What Sarah Said / I Will Follow You into the Dark / You Are a Tourist / Underneath The Sycamore / Meet Me on the Equinox / Company Calls / Soul Meets Body / Cath... / Crooked Teeth / The Sound of Settling ENCORE: Home Is a Fire / Title and Registration / Transatlanticism

about the writer

Chris Riemenschneider

Critic / Reporter

Chris Riemenschneider has been covering the Twin Cities music scene since 2001, long enough for Prince to shout him out during "Play That Funky Music (White Boy)." The St. Paul native authored the book "First Avenue: Minnesota's Mainroom" and previously worked as a music critic at the Austin American-Statesman in Texas.