Stereogum — The New Pornographers’ A.C. Newman guest starred on Comedy Central’s Drunk History last night. As Pitchfork points out, Newman played the role of Thomas Edison narrated by Chris Parnell and Michael McKean. Newman tweeted the following about his e... more info

Stereogum — Up until this point, Kathryn Calder of the New Pornographers has consistently churned out mellow synth-pop under her side project. Her newest song, “New Millenium,” is taking a bit of a different turn, though. Its fuzzy power pop could probably f... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Arielle Gordon photo: Pitchfork Fest 2014 (more by James Richards IV) The Pitchfork Music Festival happens this weekend in Chicago (7/17-7/19), featuring performances from Wilco, Sleater-Kinney, Chance the Rapper, Future Islands, The New Pornograp... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Canada's Polaris Prize has just announced it's 2015 Shortlist and these are the 10 records vying for it this year: Viet Cong - S/T Buffy Sainte-Marie - Power in the Blood The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers Tobias Jesso... more info

Stereogum — One of Canada’s many eminent music awards is the Polaris Music Prize and, today, they’ve announced their shortlist of ten records, shortened down from the original list of 40 contenders that was released last month. The past two winners were Tany... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Amanda Hatfield New Pornographers / Thao @ Celebrate Brooklyn! 7/11/2015 The New Pornographers played a free Celebrate Brooklyn! show at Prospect Park Bandshell on Saturday (7/11). The last time they did this was in 2005, part of a... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Super Furry Animals in Londen this year (more by Rachel Juarez-Carr) photo: New Pornographers @ The Brill Building, 2014 (more by Chris La Putt) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The long list for the 2015 Polaris Music Prize, Canada's annual award for a great album, has been announced. It includes Drake, The New Pornographers, Death From Above 1979, Caribou, Alvvays, White Lung, Viet Cong, METZ, Cold Specks, Buffy... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Neko Case with New Pornographers @ Hammerstein 2014 (more by Chris La Putt) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... The Northside Festival's four-day takeover of North Brooklyn... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis Kathryn Calder of New Pornographers released her third solo album back in April. While the self-titled record has a few pop moments like her other gig, it also has some very lovely, dreamlike and pastoral songs as... more info