Mar 31, 2023 By Mark Redfern

The New Pornographers have released a new album, Continue as a Guest, today via Merge, their first for the label. Now that it’s out, you can stream the whole thing here and read our review of it. More

Mar 17, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the tenth Songs of the Week of 2023. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because I was sick with a bad cold (which still lingers) and we were putting the finishing touches on our latest print issue. So this week’s Songs of the Week encompasses songs from the last two weeks. More

Mar 07, 2023 By Mark Redfern

The New Pornographers are releasing a new album, Continue as a Guest, on March 31 via Merge, their first for the label. Now they have shared its third single, “Pontius Pilate’s Home Movies.” More

Feb 17, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the seventh Songs of the Week of 2023. There were lots of great tracks this week, but none that screamed out Very Best Song of the Week, so there was some debate on what should top this week’s list. More

Feb 16, 2023 By Mark Redfern

The New Pornographers are releasing a new album, Continue as a Guest, on March 31 via Merge, their first for the label. Now they have shared its second single, “Angelcover.” More

Jan 13, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the second Songs of the Week of 2023. After a quiet period last week, this week was roaring with album announcements and new songs. We settled on a Top 11 this week. More

Jan 09, 2023 By Mark Redfern

The New Pornographers have announced a new album, Continue as a Guest, and shared its first single, “Really Really Light,” via a music video. They have also announced some tour dates, with Wild Pink as support. More

Feb 17, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Frontperson (the duo of The New Pornographers’ Kathryn Calder and Woodpigeon’s Mark Andrew Hamilton) have announced the release of their sophomore studio album, Parade, which will be out on April 29 via Oscar St. They have also shared a video for the album’s title track. More

Jul 13, 2021 By Mark Redfern

The New Pornographers have announced a 21st anniversary edition of their 2000-released album Mass Romantic. They have also announced some tour dates where they perform either Mass Romantic or 2005’s Twin Cinema (turning sweet 16 this year) in their entirety. More

Sep 27, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

The New Pornographers have released a new album, In the Morse Code of Brake Lights, today via the band’s own Collected Work imprint, in partnership with Concord. Now that the album is out, you can stream the whole thing here. You can also read our review of it. More

Sep 27, 2019 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the My Favorite Album Issue, our new print issue in which we speak to musicians and actors about their all-time favorite album. The issue features Angel Olsen and Sleater-Kinney on the two covers and is available to buy directly from us here, as well as being distributed in stores nationwide (on newsstands, in such stores as Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, and elsewhere). More

Sep 13, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

The New Pornographers are releasing a new album, In the Morse Code of Brake Lights, on September 27 via the band’s own Collected Work imprint, in partnership with Concord. Now they have shared another song from it, “One Kind of Solomon.” More

Aug 23, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. It was another incredibly strong week for new songs. Last week we ended up with a Top 12, instead of our usual Top 10, and here we are again, except this time with a Top 13. Like last week, there are also a whole lot of honorable mentions. More

Aug 23, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

The New Pornographers are releasing a new album, In the Morse Code of Brake Lights, on September 27 via the band’s own Collected Work imprint, in partnership with Concord. Now they have shared another song from it, “The Surprise Knock.” More

Aug 02, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. As soon as this week’s #1 song was shared on Tuesday morning we knew it would be the song to beat this week and it easily held off all challengers. Although, there were strong showings at #2 and #3 too. More

Aug 02, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

The New Pornographers have announced a new album, In the Morse Code of Brake Lights, and shared its first single, “Falling Down the Stairs of Your Smile.” In the Morse Code of Brake Lights is due out September 27 via the band’s own Collected Work imprint, in partnership with Concord. More

Jun 25, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

The New Pornographers have announced some new North American tour dates. They go down this September, October, and November. More

Sep 17, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Frontperson is a new duo that features Kathryn Calder of The New Pornographers (and also a solo artist and formerly of Immaculate Machine) and Mark Andrew Hamilton (who has released six albums as Woodpigeon). They are releasing their debut album, Frontrunner, this Friday (September 21) via Calder’s own label, Oscar St. Now they have shared another song from the album, “Long Night,” via a video for it. It stars Tranna Wintour, a Canadian comedian who sings along to the song in the video. More

Sep 04, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Frontperson is a new duo that features Kathryn Calder of The New Pornographers (and also a solo artist and formerly of Immaculate Machine) and Mark Andrew Hamilton (who has released six albums as Woodpigeon). They are releasing their debut album, Frontrunner, on September 21 via Calder’s own label, Oscar St. Previously they shared a video for its first single, “Tick - Tock (Frontrunner)” (which was one of our Songs of the Week). Now they have shared another song from the album, “Young Love,” via a video for it. More

Jul 09, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Frontperson is a new duo that features Kathryn Calder of The New Pornographers (and also a solo artist and formerly of Immaculate Machine) and Mark Andrew Hamilton (who has released six albums as Woodpigeon). More

Aug 09, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The New Pornographers released a new album, Whiteout Conditions, back in April on the band’s own Collected Works label, in partnership with Concord. Now they have shared a video for title track “Whiteout Conditions.” More

Jul 14, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The New Pornographers released a new album, Whiteout Conditions, back in April on the band’s own Collected Works label, in partnership with Concord. Last night the band stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to perform title track “Whiteout Conditions.” More

Apr 07, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our Spring 2017 Issue, which is out now digitally via Under the Radar’s app and the magazine app Readly. The print version is about to ship out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon (as well as available soon digitally via the magazine apps Zinio and Readly). More

Apr 03, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The New Pornographers are releasing a new album, Whiteout Conditions, this Friday (April 7) on the band’s own Collected Works label, in partnership with Concord. More

Mar 24, 2017 By Charles Steinberg

The New Pornographers are bursting back with their seventh album Whiteout Conditions. The supergroup from Vancouver released its first video for ““High Ticket Attractions,”, which featured bizzarly fantastic footage of all out destructive mayhem at a highschool, and Under the Radar has an exclusive behind the scenes video.

Mar 24, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The New Pornographers are releasing a new album, Whiteout Conditions, on April 7 on the band’s own Collected Works label, in partnership with Concord. More

Mar 02, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The New Pornographers are releasing a new album, Whiteout Conditions, on April 7 on the band’s own Collected Works label, in partnership with Concord. Previously they shared the album’s first single, “High Ticket Attractions,” via an interactive lyric video, along with the audio for “This Is the World of the Theater.” More

Feb 24, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The New Pornographers are releasing a new album, Whiteout Conditions, on April 7 on the band’s own Collected Works label, in partnership with Concord. Previously they shared the album’s first single, “High Ticket Attractions,” via an interactive lyric video. More

Jan 27, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The New Pornographers have announced a new album, Whiteout Conditions, and shared its first single, “High Ticket Attractions,” via an interactive lyric video. Whiteout Conditions is due out April 7 on the band’s own Collected Works label, in partnership with Concord. More

Jan 20, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Battle Hymns is a new protest compilation released today timed to President-Elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss of Quasi put it together. More

Jan 17, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The New Pornographers have announced some spring U.S. tour dates. It’s been two-and-a-half years since the band’s last album, 2014’s Brill Bruisers, but a press release promises that “the band will be performing songs from their forthcoming seventh full-length record.” The details of that full-length will be announced soon. Waxahatchee will open all shows. More

Jul 22, 2015 By Laura Studarus

Last weekend, Chicago hosted the annual Pitchfork Festival. Check out Annie Lesser’s shots from day two, featuring Jimmy Whispers, Protomartyr, Bully, Future Brown, Mr. Twin Sister, Ariel Pink, Shamir, ASAP Ferg, The New Pornographers, Future Islands, and Sleater-Kinney. More

May 28, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Now that relations with Cuba are normalizing, it’s also easier to shoot there (such as when Conan O’Brien recently filmed a special episode there). The New Pornographers have shot their latest video in Cuba. More

Mar 26, 2015 By Katie LaBranche

Kathryn Calder of The New Pornographers has released a new single, “Song In Cm,” off her self-titled new solo LP, due out April 12 via File Under: Music. More

Mar 13, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Continuing support of their latest LP Brill Bruisers, The New Pornographers have announced plans for a new tour. More

Oct 17, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Last night The New Pornographers were welcomed as the musical guest on Conan. More

Oct 01, 2014 By Cody Ray Shafer

The New Pornographers debuted a new video for “Dancehall Domine” from their latest album Brill Bruisers. More

Sep 11, 2014 By Laura Studarus

In this new Funny or Die video, The New Pornographers frontman A.C. Newman visits New York’s Brill Building—a.k.a. the namesake for his band’s excellent new album Brill Bruisers. More

Sep 04, 2014 By Michael Wojtas

Fresh off the release of their latest album, Brill Bruisers, Canadian indie stalwarts The New Pornographers stopped by The Late Show With David Letterman to play the LP’s title track. More

Aug 19, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Next week on Aug. 25 Canadian supergroup The New Pornographers will release their newest album Brill Bruisers. More

Aug 01, 2014 By Cody Ray Shafer

Bands have resorted to some pretty strange merchandising gimmicks over the years (Flaming Lips gummies, anyone?) so The New Pornographers’ new coffee blend “Brill Brew” isn’t the strangest idea we’ve heard of, and actually sounds pretty delicious. More

Jul 16, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Dan Bejar sung New Pornographers track “War on the East Coast” has gotten a video. More

Jun 10, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

A.C. Newman has once again called the troops together, revealing that The New Pornographers will be releasing a brand new album titled Brill Bruisers. More

Mar 24, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Here’s a fun cover, Andrew Bird taking on The New Pornographers’ “The Fake Headlines.” More

Feb 25, 2014 By Matt Fink

Back in 2000, it was easy to assume that The New Pornographers would probably be the sort of band that would make one classic album, Mass Romantic, and then quietly fade into inactivity. For one, they were building their career on a kind of music—power-pop—that never really goes out of style but never completely breaks through in a significant way, either. More

Dec 03, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Releasing his third solo album, Shut Down the Streets, earlier this year, New Pornographers frontman A.C. Newman has premiered a music video for the included single “I’m Not Talking.” More

Oct 19, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Just a reminder that the not-to-be-missed digital version of Under the Radar’s The Protest Issue includes all the same articles that appear in the printed version—plus 132 extra pages of editorial content not found in the print edition. Included are extra interviews with Andrew Bird, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Dan Deacon, Death Cab for Cutie, Dinosaur Jr., The Drums, EMA, Richard Hawley, Fucked Up, Liars, Bob Mould, Tom Morello, The New Pornographers, Okkervil River, Amanda Palmer, Laetitia Sadier, JD Samson of Le Tigre and Men, Tegan and Sara, and more. More

Oct 02, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Shut Down the Streets, the third solo album by The New Pornographers’ A.C. Newman is slated to hit shelves Oct. 9 via Matador. More

Sep 26, 2012 By Cody Ray Shafer

In Under the Radar’s Protest Issue, which is on newsstands now, we examine the intersection of music and politics. The issue includes an article titled “Barack Obama: The First Indie Rock President?” in which we talk to of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes, Dead Kennedys’ Jello Biafra, Andrew Bird, The New Pornographers’ Carl Newman, Okkervil River’s Will Sheff, and Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello about President Barack Obama’s first term, and the erosion in support from musicians versus the 2008 election. More

Sep 21, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Back in July, A.C. Newman, frontman for The New Pornographers announced the release of a new solo album entitled Shut Down The Streets. More

Aug 20, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Recently announcing plans for a follow-up to his 2009 solo album Get Guilty, The New Pornographers’ frontman A.C. Newman has come forth with an official name and release date for the proposed record. More

Jul 24, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Following his 2009 solo effort Get Guilty, The New Pornographers’ A.C. Newman has announced that he will release a new full-length effort later this fall via Matador in the U.S. and Last Gang in Canada. More

Feb 20, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Adding yet another installment to its Old Ideas with New Friends, celebrating the past work of singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen and his latest album Old Ideas, Columbia has served up a new video of one of Cohen’s classic tunes, this time performed by The New Pornographers’ Carl “A.C.” Newman. More

Oct 19, 2011 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the release of the indie music and entertainment print magazine’s 10th Anniversary Issue which hits newsstands next week. The extra-sized 10th Anniversary Issue features cover artists Joanna Newsom and Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold together in an exclusive photo shoot and joint interview. Exclusive video taken during the cover shoot of Robin Pecknold and Joanna Newsom arm wrestling can be found here. More

Apr 19, 2011 By John Everhart

New Pornographers keyboardist/vocalist Kathyrn Calder has announced details of her first ever solo tour. We have the dates. More

Apr 17, 2011 By Raymond Flotat

Day two of Coachella continued day one’s comfort. Whatever advanced security they’ve implemented—or at least perhaps scalpers buying up lots of tickets that ultimately weren’t used—has helped make this year a comfortable festival again. There’s room to move around and enjoy just about every band. Even stranger, some bands that are legendary are experiencing small turnout. The only band that really drew a massive crowd was the Arcade Fire. More

Feb 07, 2011 By Lauren Barbato

The New Pornographers recruit a star-studded cast for their quirky “Moves” video. We have the video. More

Dec 21, 2010 By Laura Studarus

The New Pornographers, perform on The New Gay. We have the video. More

Dec 16, 2010 By Katrina Yentch

The New Pornographers have teamed up with poverty-fighting charity Oxfam America through catchy song and video. “Sweet Talk, Sweet Talk” features clips of unemployed fishermen and suffering sea life, reminding us the disaster of the BP oil spill that continues to haunt us today. More

Aug 12, 2010 By Kathryn Calder

Under the Radar‘s Summer 2010 Issue is a special issue named the Wasted on the Youth Issue that features musicians and actors talking about their childhood memories and things they loved when they were kids. We’re also posting web-exclusive essays that were not printed in the issue, including this one about Knight Rider by The New Pornographers’ Kathryn Calder. More

Jun 30, 2010 By Laura Studarus

In the grand tradition of 21-year-olds everywhere, Matador Records is heading to Las Vegas to celebrate their 21st birthday October 1-3rd. We have the impressive birthday concert lineup. More

Jun 18, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Canada’s premier music award (think the Grammys here in America or England’s Mercury Prize), The Polaris Prize, has announced its’ long list. Among the 40 artists nominated are Under the Radar favorites Tegan and Sara, Owen Pallet, Broken Social Scene, Caribou, The Besnard Lakes, The New Pornographers, and Plants and Animals. We have the full list. More

Jun 03, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Chorographer Busby Berkeley was a director known for his lavish dance numbers, usually shot from above to create a series of intricate patterns. The New Pornographers is a band known for their intricate harmonies, which tend to sound good at any height. The two finally meet at last (at least in spirit) in The New Pornographers’ video “The Crash Years.” More

May 06, 2010 By Laura Studarus

The New Pornographers rocked Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night with “The Crash Years,” a cut from recently released album, Together. We have the video. More

May 04, 2010 By Mark Redfern

The New Pornographers’ new album, Together, hit stores today and to promote its release the Canadian collective have released a new video for single “Your Hands (Together).” The video was directed by the band’s own Blaine Thurier, who already has experience directing independent feature films. The clip has no plot, but features a bunch of folks doing choreographed karate in time with the music (the band makes no appearance). We have the video. More

Apr 26, 2010 By Hong Le

Stream The New Pornographers’ fifth album, Together, on NPR here. Together will stream in its entirety until the album’s release on May 4.

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Mar 25, 2010 By Laura Studarus

As previously reported, The New Pornographers are set to release fifth album Together May 4th. Today the Canadian collective unveiled new single “Crash Years” via their Facebook page with a simple note, “We present to you, “Crash Years” for your Facebook listening pleasure.” More

Mar 24, 2010 By Laura Studarus

In support of their fifth album Together, Canadian collective The New Pornographers are heading out on tour. Supporting them are The Dodos. We have the dates. More

Jan 21, 2010 By Kyle Lemmon

Canada’s much-loved (“don’t call us a supergroup”) octet The New Pornographers, are back with their fifth LP on May 4th. The Matablog broke the big news today about the power-pop band’s new release, appropriately titled Together. More

Nov 12, 2018 By Mark Redfern

My Firsts is our email interview series where we ask musicians to tell us about their first life experiences, be it early childhood ones (first word, first concert, etc.) or their first tastes of being a musician (first band, first tour, etc.). For this My Firsts we talk to Mark Andrew Hamilton of Frontperson (he has also released six albums as the leader of Woodpigeon). More

Jul 13, 2017 By John Everhart

“I just want this record to keep doing it,” says Carl “AC” Newman of The New Pornographers. The singer/songwriter/guitarist is referring to making solid records that allow him to tour in a manner that sustains himself, his band, and his family, as he discusses the band’s new album, Whiteout Conditions. More

Feb 25, 2014 By Matt Fink

Back in 2000, it was easy to assume that The New Pornographers would probably be the sort of band that would make one classic album, Mass Romantic, and then quietly fade into inactivity. For one, they were building their career on a kind of music—power-pop—that never really goes out of style but never completely breaks through in a significant way, either. More

Sep 27, 2019 By Stephen Mayne

Some bands work steadily, churning out records; others leave long gaps, creating a buzz when new music eventually arrives. It’s a testament to the high quality of The New Pornographers that each release feels like the latter despite a bulging back catalogue. More

Apr 06, 2017 By Matthew Berlyant

The New Pornographers’ first release on their own Collected Works label and without longtime mainstay Dan Bejar (also of Destroyer), but also with new drummer Joe Seiders as a permanent member, Whiteout Conditions continues very much in the same vein as 2010’s Together and 2014’s Brill Bruisers. More

Aug 22, 2014 By Hays Davis

It can’t be easy for a band like The New Pornographers. Where prog-rock musicians need to create new vistas and compositions to describe them, and comedians need to be funny, when it comes to pop-rock bands there’s always the thought that every great musical hook has already been bent and thrown into the sea. More

Jun 04, 2010 By Robin Bacior

Thousands of North Westerners packed the normally barren fields of George, WA with bare-bones camping gear and their most exotic festival apparel to witness the epic line-up of Sasquatch! 2010. The list was stacked, and showed why the festival had already sold out by early spring with performances by Mumford and Sons, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, and Vampire Weekend among others. More