Maybe It’s An Elaborate New Piracy Scheme

Chris Walla, guitarist for the indie rock band Death Cab For Cutie expected to be mixing the band’s latest album in Seattle this month, but the hard drive containing the raw tracks never made it from Vancouver, after border agents seized the drive. “Walla said he believed the confiscation was random, but [the record label] and some music publications hinted that the seizure of such a politically charged album may have been more than a coincidence.”