'Apocalypses Will Come And Go, You Will Always Be In My Heart' - A New Song
A new song, a demo, a rough mix, everyone that plays and sings on it is in The New Pornographers, so I guess it's The New Pornographers. A new one by them, so to speak.
Ballad of a New Pornographer
A place where I – A.C. Newman bandleader of The New Pornographers – put new music not available anywhere else, try out new ideas, talk about process and how ideas transform over time.
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I Found This Rough Mix Of The NPs Song 'Marching Orders'. It's A Little Different.
Says it's from September 12th, 2013. Gonna have to trust that. Article free, song for paid subscribers.
Let's Start Making A New Album!
It's my job after all. The key word here is 'start'.
'Bonus Mai Tais' Origin Story, Featuring The Unreleased Song Of Mine That It Sampled
The song ‘Bonus Mai Tais’ is one of the most personal songs I’ve ever written. If you judge the songs you write by what they mean to you as opposed to how much money and attention they generate, it is one of my most important songs. It is a very true story, with a few details changed or re-arranged. Like a lot of documentaries. I’m not sure that the rain hitting the skylight sounded like sidereal…
The Former Site Of. The Story. The Song.
Cool new mix of the song 'The Former Site Of' for paid subscribers. This post even has a plot twist!
Spooky Action. It's the next song from our next album 'The Former Site Of'!
The life of a song, examined.
Pure Sticker Shock. It's a new New Pornographers song!
and more... if you're a paid subscriber, there is a bonus song at the end.
Sending love to Minneapolis, and a cover of 'Skyway' by The Replacements at the end
We go way back, me and Minneapolis
New Pornographers' new album! Out March 27th! It's called 'The Former Site Of'! New song out now! It's called 'Votive'! There is a video!
Yes, it is an announcement day. Here is a link to various ways to hear our new song ‘Votive’, from our new album ‘The Former Site Of’, out March 27th: https://lnk.to/TheFormerSiteOf Here is the video: Directed by Michael Arthur, who also did the wonderful artwork for our album cover. This one, right here: What else? Tour dates! Come to our shows! What else? There will be an exclusive version of…
In Praise Of Old Music I'd Forgotten, Old Music I Just Discovered, Some New Music. A Cover Of The Song 'Hermits On Holiday' By Drinks, A Side Project Of Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley
Happy New Year! Time just gets away from you, just like the last pages of True Grit. As part of the new year, I decided to do some pre-spring cleaning, and my lazy ass version of cleaning is getting rid of records so we have more space. I started asking myself if an album ‘sparked joy’, Marie Kondo-style. I held albums by bands I really liked, held them in my trembling hands, but had to ask myself…
Music I Loved This Year, A Lot Of Geese Talk, A Fireside Cover of Geese's 'Cobra'
I like that Geese album. You heard of them?
Well, I Guess We Can Talk About The Elephant In The Room Now... Yes, A Tour Is Coming Soon!
and a Rolling Stone feature about my so-called life!
Dang! Free Ride. It's a loose cover of a loose Nick Drake cover I did with Dan Bejar and Mark Szabo back in the late 90s
Dang, I say.
It's been 1 year on Substack (more or less)! I made this EP of covers to celebrate. It is called 'The Shape Of Things'! It's for you!
Yes, attached is an 8 track EP of sorts, of covers. A SoundCloud link. A couple of them I wrote myself but still covers. They are very different from the originals, some of them are even different from the previous covers I’ve done of the same song, previously posted here! I know, it is confusing, but it is for you. I cannot stop you from sharing it with people who aren’t paid subscribers to this…
Twin Cinema: the song, the album, the triumph, the sorrow, etc...
A new version of the song that I think is better but I have very sophisticated tastes and I always have to take that into account when I voice my opinions.
I cover 'Use It', a song by The New Pornographers. Happy Belated 20th Anniversary to the album Twin Cinema!
Part 1 of an oral one-sided history of the song, the album, the band, the age, all of it...
'You Make Me', A Nick Lowe Cover
Caution: explicit language! Now accepting (but not deserving) pity!
Changes by Sabbath. It's a cover.
Ozzy, my band Zumpano, my friend Mike Ledwidge, Eno...
A song called Lofoten Vortex. A new version of a new song.
The song I posted on my 1st Substack, but quite different! Better! It's grown up. My God, it was so long ago...
Romantic Traffic
It is a song from 1984 by Toronto band The Spoons. It fills me with joy.