Tag Archives: The New Pornographers

Vancouver-based guitarist and singer/songwriter Allan Carl Newman broke in to the Canadian music scene in the first ’90s as an associate of choice rock/grunge outfit Superconductor. An extended stint with power pop group Zumpano implemented in the mid-’90s, leading to two well-received albums, Appear What the First year Do and …

The Vancouver indie rock supergroup the brand new Pornographers feature the talents of Zumpano’s Carl Newman, the Evaporators’ John Collins, Destroyer’s Dan Bejar, cartoonist/filmmaker Blaine Thurier, drummer Fisher Rose, and guest vocalist Neko Case. Newman began the music group in 1996 like a lark after liberating Zumpano’s Goin’ Through Adjustments; …

Canadian singer/songwriter Kathryn Calder already had two EPs and 4 albums in her belt with Victoria-based indie rockers Immaculate Machine before expanding her open public persona as a fresh Pornographer. When she was an adolescent, Calder found that New Pornographers frontman Carl Newman was her long-lost uncle. (Her mom, who …

Alternative nation singer/songwriter Neko Case earned a big and devoted audience on her behalf smoky, advanced vocals as well as the downcast beauty of her music. Blessed in Alexandria, Virginia, Case transferred around frequently as a kid, spending the biggest section of her youngsters in Tacoma, Washington. She still left …