News The Feds Think Death Cab’s Chris Walla is a Terrorist?
posted by on October 17 at 16:39 PM
Maybe.
Three Imaginary Girls have the scoop, but it appears that Homeland Security has seized Walla’s hard drive, which contains files for his yet-to-be-released solo album.
Says his record label Barsuk:
In addition to the expected difficulties he encountered attempting to approach his own work with the necessary detachment of a producer [difficulties which led Walla to enlist the help of Canada-based British ex-pat (and Midnight Oil / The The producer) Warne Livesey], the project hit an unexpected snag when a data hard drive containing critical album files was confiscated by U.S.Customs. The drive was held “to be analyzed” for several weeks on its way back into the U.S. prior to final mixing of the album. (Apparently the U.S. government is unfamiliar with FTP sites, and believes that physically transporting hard drives across the border is the technique of choice for foreign individuals trying to move sensitive information into our country. Brilliant.)
TIG didn't "have the scoop." They reference three articles in the post you link to. Pitchfork or dailykos or Seattle powepop had the scoop.
You know they are just huge DCFC fans and want to be able to say they heard it first!
You're right, scoop, they didn't have the technical scoop. Bad choice of words, I guess. But that's where I first heard about the story, so I wanted to give them the credit.
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