The scene was electric outside of Los Angeles' Hollywood & Highland open-air mall on Friday evening. A huge line snaked out into the streets, and much of the crowd looked strikingly similar: gaggles of teenage girls (plus guys, moms, dads, and little ones) in black T-shirts emblazoned with five key words: The Twilight Saga: New Moon.

How's this for a great concept: The words of legendary Beat poet Jack Kerouac set to song by a pining indie-pop prince and an alt-Americana forefather. And when Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie, The Postal Service) and Jay Farrar (Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo) came together at Los Angeles' El Rey Theatre on Friday night, their performance felt about as organic as the text that inspired it.

Newlywed Death Cab for Cutie leader Ben Gibbard and Son Volt singer Jay Farrar have interpreted Jack Kerouac's 1962 novel Big Sur for their new album, One Fast Move or I'm Gone.

It was like the indie rock prom, and they were the king and queen.

Maybe this is what Ben Gibbard had in mind when his band Death Cab for Cutie named its 2005 album Plans?

The holiday season is here and what better way to celebrate than with performances from your favorite bands? Seattle radio station 107.7 FM The End couldn't agree more and invited a few friends to join the festivities at the city's WaMu Theater Tuesday night: hometown heroes Death Cab for Cutie, plus the Killers, Cold War Kids, Shiny Toy Guns, and Aqueduct.