{"id":2964,"date":"2011-08-02T01:12:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T08:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2964"},"modified":"2011-08-02T01:17:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T08:17:08","slug":"the-new-pornographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/08\/the-new-pornographers\/","title":{"rendered":"THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/h1>\n

THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS<\/strong><\/h1>\n

For this pure pop collective, the more\u2019s the merrier\u2013marching band included<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n

The New Pornographers\u2019 A.C. Newman has a confession to make. \u201cSome people might think a song like \u2018Daydream Believer\u2019 by the Monkees is cheesy,\u201d he says. \u201cBut every time I hear the song, I think it\u2019s so beautiful it makes me want to cry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fans of the Newman-led collective, which just released its fifth studio album, Together<\/em>, know the feeling. As one of today\u2019s most innovative purveyors of pure pop music, the New Pornographers delivers the same transcendent feeling to its faithful listeners. \u201cThe music I loved when I was a kid was joyful,\u201d Newman explains. \u201cPart of me always wants to write a song that sounds like \u2018Crocodile Rock\u2019 or \u2018Beach Baby.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The New Pornographers\u2019 ace in the hole is its roster of lead vocalists: Newman, Dan Bejar, Kathryn Calder and Neko Case. On the new set, the core band is joined by The Dap-Kings\u2019 horn section and a slew of other musicians. Newman says that during recording he doesn\u2019t worry about how to replicate the full sound on stage. \u201cBut at the end of it, we listen back and go, \u2018Oh no, it\u2019s going to take 12 people to play this!\u2019\u201d he acknowledges with a chuckle. \u201c\u2018Why did we put a marching band on this song?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The group is on tour throughout the summer, augmented by several additional musicians. The nature of the Pornographers\u2019 constantly shifting lineup\u2014several of the members have thriving solo careers, including Newman\u2014should give fans an added incentive to see them right now. \u201cI\u2019m always thinking, \u2018Is this the last tour we\u2019ll ever do with Dan and Neko?\u2019\u201d Newman says. \u201cI remember at the last show of our tour in 2005, I felt wistful because I thought it was the last time this line-up was ever going to play together. There\u2019s always that quality there, which makes it exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Newman admits that he\u2019d love to \u201csell a few million records,\u201d he says the New Pornographers has already succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. \u201cWhen I think back to starting to play music and being in a band, I was never thinking, \u2018I want to be like U2 or the Police,\u2019\u201d he says. \u201cI wanted to be as big as Built to Spill or Yo La Tengo or Guided by Voices. And now we\u2019ve gotten to the point where we\u2019re there. We\u2019re big as the bands we grew up loving! I feel like I have to always remember and be thankful for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Melinda Newman<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS For this pure pop collective, the more\u2019s the merrier\u2013marching band included The New Pornographers\u2019 A.C. Newman has a confession to make. \u201cSome people might think a song like \u2018Daydream Believer\u2019 by the Monkees is cheesy,\u201d he says. \u201cBut every time I hear the song, I think it\u2019s so beautiful it makes me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[70,10156,2265],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2970,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions\/2970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}