Founding drummer Kurt Dahle is leaving the New Pornographers. (That’s him with the popcorn behind Carl Newman in the press shot above.) As Brooklyn Vegan points out, the band announced Dahle’s departure in a Facebook post today: Kurt Dahle is leaving the New Pornographers. It has been a great 15 years playing with an amazing ...

The New Pornographers are back with Brill Bruisers and last night they played a special performance in Manhattan’s iconic Brill Building, just a few blocks from where they rocked Letterman on Wednesday. View Wagz2it’s photos from the evening above and the setlist below. You can also check out our Annotated Media Guide with A....

“Brill Bruisers,” the giddy firehose-blast title track from the new New Pornographers album, is about as huge and overwhelming as a power-pop song can possibly be. It’s so towering and elaborate, in fact, that it’s weirdly inspiring to see actual people banging it out in a real-time situation. But that&...

Canandian power-pop supergroup the New Pornographers make their grand return next week with their new album Brill Bruisers, their first in four years, and it is exactly the grand and purposeful hookfest that you would hope these guys would come back with. We’ve already posted the giddy, explosive title track and the great “Wa...

It was near the beginning of the summer when the New Pornographers announced their new album, Brill Bruisers, and we’re already closing in on its release day. We’ve already heard “War On The East Coast” and the title track, and now the band has given us another new one, titled “Dancehall Domine,&...