The New Pornographers

Biography

This upbeat, harmony drenched indie group began to take shape when multi-instrumentalist A.C. Newman (Allan Carl Newman, 1968, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), Daniel Bejar (b. 1972, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; guitar/vocals) and Neko Case (b. 8 September 1970, Alexandria, Virginia, USA; vocals) took their respective musical projects – Zumpano, Destroyer and Maow - to demo tracks at Smugglers, John Collins (b. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; bass) and David Carswell’s Vancouver, Canada JC/DC studios in the late 90s.

Undoubtedly the unit’s leader, Newman abandoned sessions for a third Zumpano album as well as the rock-orientated Superconductor project, with the intention of recording a handful of songs under the New Pornographers moniker. He later denied that the name was influenced by the title and premise of evangelist Jimmy Swaggart’s book The New Pornography. Sub Pop Records rejected the single...

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