While we spent our Independence weekend in very lo-fi environs, Death Cab For Cutie hosted a ritzier affair, inviting fellow indie rock darlings Tegan & Sara and the New Pornos to open their show with the LA Philharmonic, conducted by... CONTINUE READING DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE/TEGAN & SARA/THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS @ THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL, LOS ANGELES 7/5/09»
Posted on July 6, 2009 in , , (25 comments)
Tags: Death Cab For Cutie | Tegan And Sara | The New Pornographers
"Unleash" might seem like the wrong word for Neko Case's classy, countrified sounds, but even though a couple of these performances are muted and she's only joined by one other vocalist and an acoustic guitarist, when she tilts her head... CONTINUE READING NEKO CASE UNLEASHES HER MIDDLE CYCLONE ON INTERFACE»
Posted on March 30, 2009 in (8 comments)
Tags: Depeche Mode | Neko Case | The New Pornographers | The xx
Yesterday we gave you the Rock Band 2 version of Neko Case's "People Got A Lotta Nerve." Today we have Middle Cyclone's spare, sad title track and its fragile-sounding music box and Case's lyrics about spilled water and internal storm... CONTINUE READING NEW NEKO CASE - "MIDDLE CYCLONE" & FULL ALBUM STREAM»
Posted on February 26, 2009 in (14 comments)
Tags: Happy Mondays | HEALTH | Neko Case | The New Pornographers
Neko Case's been a cartoon and now she's a videogame, or at least part of one. The New Pornographer's Middle Cyclone single "People Got A Lotta Nerve" shows up as part of the "Alt Country Pack 01" for Rock Band... CONTINUE READING NEKO CASE SINGLE HITS ROCK BAND, QTV»
Posted on February 25, 2009 in , (15 comments)
Tags: Neko Case | Rock Band | The New Pornographers
Fair enough, at this point you wouldn't be mistaken to think Dark Was The Night's become an institutionalized month-long holiday (like end-of-the-year lists, natch), but the notable tracks keep coming, so it seems OK to continue rolling out the red... CONTINUE READING NEW NEW PORNOGRAPHERS - "HEY, SNOW WHITE"»
Posted on February 6, 2009 (13 comments)
Tags: Cass McCombs | Dark Was The Night | Destroyer | The New Pornographers | Wavves
DUMBO is a pretty (and now pretty expensive) area of Brooklyn shadowed by bridges. It's where the DUMBO Sessions are recorded. You might recall Department Of Eagles' "1997." In a few months, you might also recall Carl Newman's take on... CONTINUE READING NEW A.C. NEWMAN LIVE VIDEO - "THE CHANGELING (GET GUILTY)" (DUMBO SESSION)»
Posted on January 20, 2009 in , (3 comments)
Tags: A.C. Newman | No Age | The Dead Weather | The New Pornographers
We showed you Neko Case surfing a muscle car, sword in tote, for her new solo album Middle Cyclone. This "making of" teaser appears to be a tad gentler, until she describes locating themes for the the followup to 2006's... CONTINUE READING THE MAKING OF NEKO CASE'S MIDDLE CYCLONE»
Posted on December 16, 2008 in (9 comments)
Tags: Neko Case | The New Pornographers | Vetiver
So far A.C. Newman's offered a listen to "There Are Maybe Ten Or Twelve" from his forthcoming second solo album Get Guilty. Like much of his work, one song doesn't exactly give you a sense of where he'll take things... CONTINUE READING NEW A.C. NEWMAN - "SUBMARINES OF STOCKHOLM"»
Posted on December 9, 2008 in , (4 comments)
Tags: A.C. Newman | The New Pornographers
New Pornographer A.C. (Carl) Newman's pop-drenched Get Guilty, the followup to 2004's Slow Wonder, is out at the beginning of '09. You've already heard the opener "There Are Maybe Ten Or Twelve" and now there's maybe one or one Go-Betweens... CONTINUE READING A.C. NEWMAN COVERS THE GO-BETWEENS »
Posted on November 19, 2008 in (1 comments)
Tags: A.C. Newman | The Go-Betweens | The New Pornographers | The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Now that the New Pornos have rocked Australia and New Zealand on the final leg of their Challengers tour, Carl Newman is prepping the release of his second solo album Get Guilty. Today, via Matador Records' Intended Play sampler for... CONTINUE READING NEW A.C. NEWMAN - "THERE ARE MAYBE TEN OR TWELVE"»
Posted on October 30, 2008 in (4 comments)
Tags: A.C. Newman | The New Pornographers | Throw Me The Statue
A.C. Newman's second solo effort Get Guilty (1/20, Matador) has a pretty ugly cover, but will likely have some pretty, poppy songs. Before you slip too comfortably into that realm, though, the New Pornographers are offering up a video from... CONTINUE READING NEW NEW PORNOGRAPHERS VIDEO - "MUTINY, I PROMISE YOU"»
Posted on September 29, 2008 in , , (14 comments)
Tags: Kristen Schaal | Kurt Braunohler | The New Pornographers
This morning Matablog set forth some details on the second solo effort from Porn maestro A.C. Newman. The follow-up to 2004's revisit-worthy, pop-lovely The Slow Wonder is slated for an early '09 release and will feature Superchunk's Jon Wurster along... CONTINUE READING A.C. NEWMAN'S GET GUILTY ALBUM ART»
Posted on September 24, 2008 in (7 comments)
Tags: A.C. Newman | The New Pornographers
Middle Cyclone, Neko Case's solo follow up to 2006's Fox Confessor Brings The Flood, is due on Anti- in March 2009. Clearly in prep mode, she performed three Middle album tracks along with a Harry Nilsson cover at Bumbershoot in... CONTINUE READING NEKO CASE COVERS HARRY NILSSON, PERFORMS NEW SONGS AT BUMBERSHOOT»
Posted on September 2, 2008 in , (9 comments)
Tags: David Byrne | Harry Nilsson | Hockey | Neko Case | SXSW | The New Pornographers
Okkervil River's kicking off a new series of performances, to be added over time to their YouTube channel, featuring songs from the prematurely approved The Stand Ins as performed by various guests you've probably heard of. The first album track... CONTINUE READING WILL SHEFF AND CARL NEWMAN TRY OUT "LOST COASTLINES" »
Posted on August 19, 2008 in (8 comments)
Tags: Carl Newman | Coachella | Liars | M83 | Okkervil River | The New Pornographers
When's the last time you want to an actual record store? Like where you have to walk through a door and can't just click "download"? Yes, we live inside a blog, but record stores are pretty great. Brandon worked at... CONTINUE READING TOMORROW IS RECORD STORE DAY»
Posted on April 18, 2008 (34 comments)
Tags: Björk | Built To Spill | Dead Meadow | Death Cab For Cutie | Deerhunter | Grizzly Bear | Interpol | Prurient | R.E.M. | Regina Spektor | Stephen Malkmus | SXSW | Tapes 'N Tapes | The Black Keys | The New Pornographers | Vampire Weekend | Young Widows
Heroes doesn't normally give us a lot of reasons to mention it, as pop music is rarely incorporated into their scenes about staving off the apocalypse. There was that one time where some girls were double-dutching to M.I.A.'s "Boyz" (before... CONTINUE READING HEROES TAPS WILCO, DEATH CAB, MY MORNING JACKET, THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN FOR SOUNDTRACK»
Posted on February 28, 2008 (12 comments)
Tags: David Bowie | Death Cab For Cutie | Heroes | My Morning Jacket | Spank Rock | The Chemical Brothers | The Jesus And Mary Chain | The New Pornographers | Wilco
It's Valentine's Day, lovers, and it only seems right to get it started with some Porn. We recently took a closer look at Dan Bejar's excellent Trouble In Dreams and now thanks to director Mark Lomond, we can take a... CONTINUE READING NEW NEW PORNOGRAPHERS VIDEO - "MYRIAD HARBOUR"»
Posted on February 14, 2008 in (6 comments)
Tags: Destroyer | The New Pornographers
Remember the sleepover party video for "All For Swinging You Around"? Imagine how much more fun it would've been if John Kruk was there. Or not. In case you didn't grow up in the Tri-State area, or even if you... CONTINUE READING NEKO CASE TAKES AN ADULT SWIM»
Posted on January 28, 2008 in , (10 comments)
Tags: Aqua Teen Hunger Force | Kelly Hogan | Neko Case | The New Pornographers
When the Porn stars announced their challenge to YouTube Nation (their words), we offered a set of DVDs (on top of the NPs iPhone promise) if one of you guys won. Well one of you guys didn't. But from the... CONTINUE READING THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS PICK A WINNER»
Posted on October 30, 2007 in (10 comments)
Tags: Michael McDonald | The New Pornographers
How did you spend your Sunday? We already mentioned that poor Bret Michaels talks dirty on Guitar Hero IIl: Legends Of Rock. That's one thing, but who expected that rival riffer game Rock Band would get pornographic? While it might... CONTINUE READING GUITAR HERO III RELEASED, ROCK BAND GETS PORNOGRAPHIC»
Posted on October 29, 2007 in , (16 comments)
Tags: Guitar Hero | Poison | Rock Band | Slash | The New Pornographers
The New Pornogaphers recently had their induction into the Patsavas playlist when "Challengers" played during a romantic, show-closing scene on the show soundtracked by your iTunes most-played list. Now it's time for more official video treatment. The Darren Pasemko-directed clip... CONTINUE READING NEW NEW PORNOGRAPHERS VIDEO - "CHALLENGERS"»
Posted on October 15, 2007 in (6 comments)
Tags: Carl Newman | Michael McDonald | Neko Case | The New Pornographers
Not watching Chuck? That's for the best, although the suits at NBC would be shocked and saddened to hear it, especially since they've decided their 40 Year Old Virgin-meets-The Bourne Ultimatum (but not as good as that sounds) comedy appears... CONTINUE READING NBC'S CHUCK IS TRYING REALLY HARD TO WOO YOU AND ACCORDING TO THE RATINGS, IT'S NOT WORKING»
Posted on October 9, 2007 (55 comments)
Tags: Band Of Horses | Beck | Chuck | Gomez | Spoon | Teddybears | The National | The New Pornographers | The Shins
Who's been working on their Michael McDonald'd New Pornos covers? Just in case's those trademark vocals are a bit outside your range, the Pornographers have one again thrown the gauntlet, but this time the only limitation is your acuity of... CONTINUE READING THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS' CHALLENGE YOU TO GET "WEIRD AL" WITH THEIR TUNES»
Posted on October 1, 2007 in (2 comments)
Tags: Michael McDonald | The New Pornographers | Weird Al Yankovic
