20 Years Later, I Saw The Postal Service In Concert, And Damn It Feels Good To Be Emo

At Madison Square Garden, as the summer turned into the fall of 2023, Ben Gibbard took to the stadium arena, at exactly 9:00 PM in an all-black outfit — button-up, jeans, microphone with a red cord — and quickly dove into the opening track of Death Cab For Cutie’s 2003 groundbreaking album, Transatlanticism.