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Article: Indie rockers to cover 'Little Boxes' for show Death Cab for Cutie wants its version of the folk song to sound like rock.
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- Dayton Daily News
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- August 13, 2006
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When producers of the Showtime series Weeds asked Death Cab for
Cutie to cover Little Boxes, the band knew it wanted its version of
the song to sound different from the original.
The quirky, fast-tempo waltz by folk singer Malvina Reynolds opens
the series each week. But come next season, premiering Monday, the
comedy that stars Mary Louise Parker as a pot-peddling widow will
feature a revolving door of artists from Elvis Costello to Jenny
Lewis of Rilo Kiley performing the theme song. Up Aug. 21 -- Death
Cab.
"Everybody's probably going to do folk versions or cover it just
the way it is," says Ben Gibbard of Death Cab. "We wanted to be the
complete opposite. So, ours sounds like Death Cab ...