Postal Service Auditions Reimagined in New Clip

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Ben Gibbard has been the voice of the Postal Service for 10 years, but what if he hadn't gotten the gig? Funny or Die goes inside the audition room with Jimmy Tamborello and an overbearing Sub Pop executive for a look at some of the other musicians who tried out for the group: Guns N' Roses' Duff McKagan, Blink-182's Tom DeLonge, Aimee Mann, "Weird Al" Yankovic (with accordion) and Moby, who lets loose with a full-on freakout. 

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Finally, Gibbard gets his chance, singing over one of Tamborello's tracks. The exec leans over and asks Tamborello, "That was crap, right? You sure you don't want to go with the accordion guy?"

The Postal Service will mark a decade together with a re-release in April of their sole album, Give Up, and an expanding reunion tour that now begins April 9th in Reno, Nevada, and stretches across North America before wrapping up August 2nd in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Postal Service Auditions Reimagined in New Clip

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Ben Gibbard has been the voice of the Postal Service for 10 years, but what if he hadn't gotten the gig? Funny or Die goes inside the audition room with Jimmy Tamborello and an overbearing Sub Pop executive for a look at some of the other musicians who tried out for the group: Guns N' Roses' Duff McKagan, Blink-182's Tom DeLonge, Aimee Mann, "Weird Al" Yankovic (with accordion) and Moby, who lets loose with a full-on freakout. 

100 Best Albums of the 2000s: The Postal Service, 'Give Up'

Finally, Gibbard gets his chance, singing over one of Tamborello's tracks. The exec leans over and asks Tamborello, "That was crap, right? You sure you don't want to go with the accordion guy?"

The Postal Service will mark a decade together with a re-release in April of their sole album, Give Up, and an expanding reunion tour that now begins April 9th in Reno, Nevada, and stretches across North America before wrapping up August 2nd in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Postal Service to Issue Miles Davis Stamp

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More than 20 years after his death, jazz legend Miles Davis is being honored by the U.S. Postal Service with his very own stamp.

This year, the Kind of Blue trumpeter will be immortalized in a collection of musically-themed stamps that will also honor the singer Edith Piaf, according to The Telegraph. They will be released in partnership with the French postal service, La Poste.

"This is a fitting honor," said Lee Barham, chairman of the steering committee for the Miles Davis Jazz Celebration. "Before Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley, there was Miles Davis."

Davis, one of the most innovative figures in bebop and jazz fusion, died in 1991 at age 65. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006.

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Postal Service to Issue Miles Davis Stamp

Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

More than 20 years after his death, jazz legend Miles Davis is being honored by the U.S. Postal Service with his very own stamp.

This year, the Kind of Blue trumpeter will be immortalized in a collection of musically-themed stamps that will also honor the singer Edith Piaf, according to The Telegraph. They will be released in partnership with the French postal service, La Poste.

"This is a fitting honor," said Lee Barham, chairman of the steering committee for the Miles Davis Jazz Celebration. "Before Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley, there was Miles Davis."

Davis, one of the most innovative figures in bebop and jazz fusion, died in 1991 at age 65. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006.

To read the new issue of Rolling Stone online, plus the entire RS archive: Click Here

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