The Music Lovers

Being the Dan Bejar aka Destroyer newbie that I am, and the fact that I'm going to the Destroyer/Magnolia Electric Co./Nedelle show tonight at Lee's Palace, I've been reading up on Mr. Bejar and sampling some of his musical wares from the 'net. I was rightly impressed the first time I saw Destroyer perform live, when they opened The New Pornographers show at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in October 2005. Fortunately, it was also one of the few times that Mr. Bejar joined the touring lineup of The New Pornographers. Hmmm. Double-shot of musical goodness. To be honest I wasn't always enamoured with the Mr. Bejar-sung tracks for The New Pornographers; there was something about his vocals that I couldn't wrap my ears around. However, since then, having been able to sample more of Destroyer's music, I realize that it was a shame for my perception of Mr. Bejar's peculiar vocals to detract me away from his often-times spectactular pop melodies. I mean, if Neil Young and Bob Dylan can get away with it...[photo from http://../]

Thanks to Catbirdseat(March 10, 2006 post) for pointing the the way to a bunch of Destroyer tracks which can be found across the web.

Washington City Paper has an intelligent writeup on Destroyer's 7th and most recent album "Destroyer’s Rubies".

Stylus expresses how Destroyer's most recent album "Destroyer Rubies" subverts the whole culture and music of "indie rock" from within the confines of indie rock itself. Actually, this point is touched on quite nicely in the Washington City Paper article above.

There's a brief writeup on Destroyer over at Hour.ca.

Mr. Bejar's interviewed over at Odyssey Zine(circa "Your Blues").

Pitchfork reports that Destroyer, among others(with more to be announced!), has been added to the Pitchfork Music Festival lineup, which will be taking place July 29 and 30 at Chicago's Union Park. (With all these Chicago music festivals, road trips will definitely be in order...or at least considered, right?)

And finally, thanks to Zoilus for continuing to wave the Destroyer flag high.