E-Mail This Article to a Friend Death Cab for Halloween Indie rockers Death Cab for Cutie at the Middle East, the Coolidge Corner Theater's Halloween Horror Movie Marathon, and more

Post Postal

Earlier this year, the indie-rock singer-songwriter Ben Gibbard had a left-field smash hit with "Such Great Heights," a swooning, chirpy love letter from Give Up (Sub Pop), the debut album by the Postal Service, Gibbard’s new-wave-ish collaboration with Dntel’s Jimmy Tamborello. And that wasn’t even the main course. Gibbard’s primary outlet, the band Death Cab for Cutie, have just released their fourth album, Transatlanticism (Barsuk), and it could be the one to establish them as the next great American underground band: a lavish, beautifully realized, wide-screen epic that eases from Sunny Day-like melancholy and sparkling, velvet-twilight piano-and-guitar reveries into gorgeous and glitchy indie-laptop pop (think an Americanized Notwist), and detonates with the kind of dramatic hooks that outfits like the Promise Ring, the Dismemberment Plan, and Joan of Arc used to merely hint at. Death Cab arrive at the Middle East, 480 Mass Ave, for a two-night stand October 24 and 25; tickets are $15. Call (617) 864-EAST.

On the slopes

Ski bunnies and snowboard fanatics flock to Warren Miller’s films like fine powder to mountaintops — his film annuals compile deluxe slo-mo money shots of the world’s most famous snowriders in some of the sport’s most exotic locations. His new Warren Miller’s Journey is no exception: the product of 19 film crews traversing four continents, it finds the U.S. Freestyle Team in Chile, ski mountaineers probing 45-degree slopes in Chamonix, France, and the 78-year-old filmmaker himself on the slopes in Wyoming. Miller’s films tour like old-fashioned road shows — as a series of one-nighters — and Journey will screen November 6 at the Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square, as well as November 7 and 8 at Boston University’s Tsai Performance Center, 685 Comm Ave. Call (617) 625-4088 or (617) 353-8724.

Horror at the Corner

The Coolidge Corner Theatre is gearing up for its fourth annual Halloween Horror Movie Marathon, a creature triple-double feature all-nighter with some rock-and-roll sin and burlesque skin to keep the night-fright goose-pimples at bay. Vincent Price repopulates his museum with uncannily lifelike sculptures — in 3D! — in his seminal House of Wax (1953), on a bill that also includes a Japanese zombie baby in Devil Fetus, prom-night hijinx in DePalma’s Carrie (1976), Johnny Depp’s nine-inch-nails in Edward Scissorhands, Herschell Gordon Lewis’s gory drive-in classic 2000 Maniacs (1964), and, uh, Ghostbusters (1984). Meanwhile, the ladies of Black Cat Burlesque do the undead-striptease thing, alongside live music by Beat Science, garage-rockers Thee Monkey Butlers, and "hell’s own troubadour," Dan Blakeslee. To catch all this, take a nap Saturday, October 25, and show up at midnight — technically, first thing in the "morning" of Sunday, October 26 — at the Coolidge, 290 Harvard Street in Brookline. Admission is $30. Call (617) 734-2501, or visit www.coolidge.org.

Homecoming

Mark your calendars for November 26, a date on which two generations of Boston rock monsters return home for Thanksgiving. At the FleetCenter, Aerosmith — having finished up the recording of their as-yet-untitled blues album with Toys in the Attic producer Jack Douglas — kick off another leg of their juggernaut tour in tandem with the re-commissioned, out-of-retirement KISS; tickets are $45 to $125. And at the Orpheum the same night, Godsmack take refuge from the arenas with a relatively intimate date — though not quite as intimate as the acoustic gig they did recently in New York opening for Iggy and the Stooges — with nu-metal dudes Adema, led by Korn frontman Jon Davis’s half-brother. Tickets are $35; call (617) 931-2000 for tickets to both shows.