Undertheradar Presents: The New Pornographers

Wow what a week this has been - we have the great pleasure of announcing another amazing international band heading our way - Undertheradar, Rushmore, 95bFM in association with Mystery Girl proudly present the return of The New Pornographers!

Touring in support of their new album Together, TNP will be playing two New Zealand shows in November.

Saturday 20th November, Kings Arms Tavern - Auckland
Sunday 21st November, San Francisco Bath House - Wellington

Tickets on sale Monday 23rd August from here at Undertheradar, Real Groovy (AK) and Slow Boat (Welly).

Here's their latest music video for "Your Hands (Together)" from the new album.

PRESS RELEASE:

GET “TOGETHER” WITH THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS LIVE – AUCKLAND AND WELLINGTON – 20 & 21 NOVEMBER

Rushmore, Under The Radar and BFM, in association with Mystery Girl, are very pleased to present Vancouver’s own power-pop maestros THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS live in New Zealand for the first time since 2008.

Bringing their acclaimed new album “Together” to life onstage will be A.C. Newman, Neko Case, Kurt Dahle, Todd Fancey, Kathryn Calder, John Collins and Blaine Thurier – the latest exciting iteration of their ever-evolving lineup.

Moving in a tangent from their previous work, yet incorporating all of the songwriting nous and indelible performances that marked previous outings “Mass Romantic”, “Electric Version”, “Twin Cinema” and “Challengers”, “Together” is just a bit more intimate, evoking the chamber pop of albums like Big Star’s “Sister Lovers” to a degree as yet unexplored by the band.

To try and comprehensively list the individual and collective achievements of THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS would be an exercise in folly – needless to say, with mountains of accolades, consistent showings in year-end critics’ polls in pretty much every year of the past decade, and a deserved reputation as one of the most vital acts in contemporary rock’n’roll, rarely has the much-overused term ‘supergroup’ been so accurate or well earned by any band.

THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS play at The Kings Arms in Auckland on 20 November, and San Francisco Bath House on 21 November.  Tickets go on sale from Monday 23 August from Real Groovy (Auckland), Slow Boat (Wellington) and www.undertheradar.co.nz.