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The New Pornographers are out with their eighth studio album, titled In The Morse Code of the Brake Lights (Concord). The album, which was written entirely by A.C. Newman, explores the former Canadian’s anxiety about living in the United States. Sound & Vision host Emily Fox spoke with Newman about a few of the songs on the album and the stories behind them.
In The Morse Code Of Brake Lights will be out September 27.
A band is like a marriage; the divorce rate for groups started two decades ago is high. Add in more members, each with significant side projects, and the odds of a split only climb higher. By all estimates then, The New Pornographers, formed twenty years ago in Vancouver, B.C., by players from a ha…
"Be careful with that beach ball," a grinning AC Newman said one song into the fourth Sasquatch appearance of The New Pornographers' career. At this point, Newman, de facto co-frontwoman Kathryn Calder, and the group are Sasquatch veterans, and they made sure everyone knew it in a particularly unor…
