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June 21, 2005

Pornographers Get Rolling

Indie rockers will preview "Cinema" on tour

Challengers

For seven years, the New Pornographers have been one of Canada's best rock exports, turning out a series of records that recycled Seventies AM hits and worked up winning exuberance without sounding cheesy or generic. Challengers, the Vancouver group's fourth album, is slower and more thoughtful,...

2007 RS: 3of 5 Stars

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2003

Mass Romantic

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Conceived as a one-off studio project, Vancouver indie group the New Pornographers became a full-on band when their debut turned out better than any-one could have imagined. Singer/songwriters Carl Newman (of Zumpano) and Dan Bejar (a.k.a. Destroyer) devised a smart, winningly eccentric variation on Cheap Trick and Utopia's exuberant power pop, crammed every available aural space with blockbuster ...

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