The New Pornographers

Heylo! I was doing a little profile hunt on The New Pornographers. Cause I like them, and it would be cool to have a mini bio on them, so here it goes!

The New Pornographers lead singer, Carl Newman, actually got the band name from a japanese film called The Pornographers, which came out in 1966, by Shohei Imamura. The original name was Erogotoshitachi yori Jinruigaku nyumon, which means An Introduction to Anthropology through The Pornographers. The story is about a porn filmmaker, Mr. Ogata, whose buisness is under threat by a bunch of thieves, as well as the government, and even his own loving family.

Carl Newman was a member of the bands Superconductor and Zumpano, which they performed indie rock. But after the break-up of those bands, he reemerged as Carl Newman, the leader of a canadian pop band, The New Pornographers. He also released a solo album, but he was known as A.C. Newman.

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