Dan Bejar

Bejar is back!

The shows were extra special in that they featured both Dan Bejar and Neko Case, making for a rare convergence, along with AC Newman, of the group’s primary creative forces and vocalists.

The New Pornographers’ debut album, ‘Mass Romantic,‘ is getting a new vinyl reissue as well.

have shared a video for “foolssong,” the atmospheric closing track from this year’s terrific Have We Met. It was shot on their 2020 tour which filmmakers David Galloway & David Ehrenreich were documenting right up until the coronavirus brought that to a halt. “We were making a film. Maybe we still are.”

The tracks were intended for a Destroyer covers EP that never materialized.

For a guy who famously doesn’t like touring, Dan Bejar seemed to be having a very good time at Destroyer’s Brooklyn Steel show on Saturday …

“I’m gonna try and read this Lou Reed poem,” Dan Bejar said mid-set at Brooklyn Steel, fumbling with a couple sheets of paper as the rest of Destroyer started playing behind him…

This week in Indie Basement: a review of Destroyer’s ‘Have We Met,’ plus reissues from Cocteau Twins and Happy Mondays, and Super Furry Animals offshoot Das Koolies.

Dan Bejar says “Cue Synthesizer” is “maybe the most audacious piece of music Destroyer’s laid to tape.”

Destroyer’s new album, Have We Met, is out January 31 via Merge.