Two Erstwhile Local Musicians Give Me an Excuse to Write About the New Pornographers

First excuse: St. Vincent’s Annie Clark will appear on the New Pornographers’ forthcoming record, Together, set for release on May 4. If it’s at all like the Canadian supergroup’s previous four albums, it will be well worth looking into. At the bottom of the post that lives inside that hyperlink I just made, you’ll also note that New Pornographers leader A.C. Newman will appear at a Haiti benefit at Brooklyn’s Bell House on January 27. Joining him onstage is the second excuse: Old 97’s frontman Rhett Miller.