Power Popsters Grow Up (Globe and Mail)
The Money Shot: Newman can't explain the disparity, except to say the Pornographers never shied away from testing the bigger market. "From the beginning, we didn't want to get stuck in the Can-rock ghetto, to be a band that didn't want to leave their safety zone or didn't want to go to America and face the hard slog there."
25 Bands That Should Reunite (Shoutmouth)
MS: 2. The Talking Heads
Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, and Jerry Harrison are all alive and well. The problem is, they all seem to kind of hate David Byrne. They did, however, all get together to play at their 2002 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. A new album isn't necessarily what we're after with The Heads; their rip-roaring live show is.
Interview: Daryl Hall (Pitchfork)
MS: I look at myself as a bit of a pioneer about that too. In the mid-90s, that's when I went indie. We started making indie records out of necessity, and we were trying to figure out how to deal with it. And we've been doing it now since the mid-90s. And I think that our contemporaries are catching up to us. I mean, everybody I know, if they're not indie, they're suffering. You can be Rod Stewart, and be Clive Davis' dog, and have a career at the expense of your artistic soul. I have nothing but negative things to say about that, because I respect him as a singer, and I hate what he does. He sold his soul. And I take that personally.
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