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Don't mess with Neko

New Pornographers | House of Blues Boston | June 18, 2010
For some reason, an audience member hurled a CD — no case, just the shiny, sharp-edged disc — at the stage early in the band's set. This prompted New Pornographer Case to say, half-jokingly, "Whoever threw that, come up here, and I will fucking fight you. . . . I will go to jail, I don't give a shit."
By DAVID BRUSIE | June 22, 2010

Photos: New Pornographers at the House of Blues

New Pornographers | House of Blues | June 18, 2010
New Pornographers perform live at the House of Blues on June 18, 2010.
By SCOTT M. LACEY | June 22, 2010

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The New Pornographers | Together

Matador (2010)
Once a group of Canadian unknowns masquerading as a supergroup, the New Pornographers are no longer entirely Canadian or unknown, and neither are they the same cavalier bunch who redefined left-field power pop for the Naughts.
By ZETH LUNDY | May 04, 2010

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Spring clearance

Discriminatin' picks for the frugal music snob
I've seen the best music snobs of my generation destroyed by downloading — instead of savoring full albums the way one might enjoy a vintage claret, they're slamming down random shots of bands with stupid names, passing out, and blanking on what they heard the night before.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | March 09, 2010

Off the record?

Ten albums to get . . . while we still have albums
Pity the album. After a half-century of embarrassingly public body issues, our essential rock unit has not entered the new millennium looking very healthy. EPs are way more in vogue, MP3s have intangibility on their side, and 12-inches just sound impressive.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | September 14, 2009

Solo contender

A.C. Newman adjusts to the limelight on Get Guilty
When Carl Newman walks down a New York City sidewalk and seizes some sudden flicker of inspiration by humming bits of melody into his Blackberry.
By ZETH LUNDY | March 10, 2009

Guilty pleasure

A.C. [Carl] Newman talks pop and the making of his new album
A.C. Newman is on fire. One of indie rock's most prolific songwriters and performers, Newman has six albums to his credit this decade...
By MICHAEL ATCHISON | March 10, 2009

Review: A. C. Newman, Get Guilty

Matador
As leader of the New Pornographers, Carl Newman has lorded it over an indie-pop dynamo through four well-received albums.
By MICHAEL PATRICK BRADY | January 12, 2009

On with the shows . . .

Winter 2009's got plenty in store
If freezing your ass off builds character, music fans should prepare to develop way too much character over the next few months.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR AND CHRIS FARAONE | December 30, 2008

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Lovers' rock

Think just being in a relationship is tough? Meet five bands who've combined work and play — and against all odds ended up making sweet harmonies
Ever want to throttle your co-worker, that well-meaning but slack-jawed doofus always peering over your cubicle? How about your partner at home, always leaving the seat up or making a Hansel-and-Gretel popcorn trail from the kitchen to the couch?
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | December 12, 2008

Variety pack

A compendium of Wolf Parade side projects
A compendium of Wolf Parade side projects
By BEN WESTHOFF | July 28, 2008

Death Cab’s Chris Walla aims for the heart and the mind

Solo shots
Chris Walla knows he’s never going to make a Steely Dan album.
By MIKAEL WOOD | February 05, 2008

The top 20 local albums of 2007

Here’s to the cream of a very impressive crop
Whatever you may think of Portland’s live-music scene nowadays — I’d argue it’s improving.
By SAM PFEIFLE | December 19, 2007

Pop secrets

The New Pornographers explore the quiet zone
This confounding of rock orthodoxy simply happened.
By SCOTT FRAMPTON | August 21, 2007

Sister act

The unconventional rise of Tegan and Sara
There’s nothing conventional about Tegan and Sara.
By MIKAEL WOOD | July 30, 2007

Size matters

The Shins tend to a growing fan base
The Shins’ third album, Wincing the Night Away (Sub Pop), is as good as any rational mortal should expect an indie-pop album to be in the winter of 2007. The Shins, "Phantom Limb" (mp3)
By FRANKLIN SOULTS | February 06, 2007

Oh brother, where alt thou?

A popular cult genre searches for its lost highway
In the summer of 1995, Grant Alden was documenting “the tail end of the grunge years” as managing editor of a Seattle music weekly, the Rocket . Alejandro Escovedo, "Broken Bottle" (mp3 via MySpace) Drive-By Truckers, "Feb. 14" (mp3 via MySpace)
By FRANKLIN SOULTS | August 02, 2006

Get it while you can

Will sites like YouTube and The Hype Machine go the route of Napster?
A couple of months ago, a man with the screen name x-amount logged on to Recidivism.org , the blog he maintains with a few of his friends, and made a pronouncement.
By MIKE MILIARD | June 12, 2006

Roots canals

The country excursion of Jenny Lewis, the Elected, and Neko Case
Punk’s courtship of Americana has always been a natural one.
By MATT ASHARE | March 14, 2006

Belle & Sebastian

Quiet triumph
The last thing anyone would have expected from Belle and Sebastian after the languid poetics, soft-focus instrumentation, and tasteful trumpet refrains of If You’re Feeling Sinister was producer Trevor Horn.
By MATT ASHARE | March 07, 2006