In our latest Far Out Meets, we sat down with AC Newman, leader of The New Pornographers, to chat about the new album and finding peace after a life in music.
The New Pornographers have made 2023 a banner reunion year, moving to Merge Records and releasing their ninth album, Continue As A Guest, which features the singles “Really Really Light,” “Angelcover,” and “Pontius Pilate’s Home Movies.” Right now, the band’s also touring that album across the US, a journey that’ll wrap up in November in Salt Lake City. In between tour dates, the New Pornos stopped by SiriusXM to perform live and pick a cover song. Below, watch A. C. Newman, Joe Seiders, and Kathryn Calder reimagine Madchester favorites Inspiral Carpets’ “This Is How It Feels,” which originally came out in 1990.
Key Glock, two nights of Emmylou Harris at the Longhorn Ballroom, the New Pornographers, and a handful of festivals sound like a pretty great weekend to us.
Yet again, like so many works currently being wheeled out, the New Pornographers’ ninth studio album was shaped by the pandemic. Bearing traits of isolation and the unsettling restrictions of being limited to seeing just a handful of people within your bubble, ‘Continue as a .