Archive - Ballad of a New Pornographer

Romantic Traffic

It is a song from 1984 by Toronto band The Spoons. It fills me with joy.

Jul 9 •

June 2025

Margaret V Pauline

I covered a Neko Case song. It contains a huge 'Blade Runner' style synth, like many of her songs.

Jun 26 •

Your Prison, Your Rules

It's a new demo. A new song.

Jun 5 •

May 2025

The Pornographers (It's A Destroyer cover)

The song is called 'The Pornographers'. I recorded it yesterday. Related to that, I talk about the band name.

May 17 •

The Snakes Crawl At Night

May 4 •

April 2025

New Pornographers ‘Ballad Of The Last Payphone’ Streaming Now!

It’s a new song! Limited edition of 250 7” vinyl with exclusive song (not on streamers) almost gone!

Apr 2 •

March 2025

New Pornographers 'Ballad Of The Last Payphone' Exclusive 7" Vinyl! 2 New Songs, Limited Edition Of 250!

Only available here to Vinyl Club members!

Mar 21 •

Continue As A Guest (Live On KCMP)

This isn't the big announcement I promised, but it's cool!

Mar 17 •

Tell It All Brother, a song by Kenny Rogers And The First Edition

A little throwback to the early days of the Covid shutdown, which started almost exactly 5 years ago. Damn.

Mar 10 •

February 2025

Alarm Code As Songwriting Prompt (Or How I Wrote Colosseums)

Or 'in defense of the instrumental version'

Feb 21 •

Chump Change '25

It's an old Bejar song! Is it the New Pornographers? Who can say? Who could ever say?

Feb 10 •

January 2025

How I Wrote 'The Laws Have Changed'

And Other Tangents

Jan 26 •

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