#Dan Bejar

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Destroyer (solo) The Drake, Amherst, MA 25 October 2024

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As an artist it absolutely drives me nuts when people repost someone’s art without giving a lick of credit! It’s so easy these days to give credit!!

Anyway I saw this piece get reblogged a bunch without any credit and wanted to post it with proper credit.

The artist of this piece is Dan Bejar

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Dan Bejar

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Destroyer

"Kaputt"

Music video, 2011

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Just announced! A perfect mood booster: my two favorite indie rock art dirtbags touring together in 2025.

Misty + Dan will be a wordy, sleazy, dramatic pairing. 😁

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Dan Bejar and his conceptual illustrations

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this album ...

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Photos: Destroyer (solo) at the Turf Club

Destroyer (solo)Turf Club, St. Paul, MNApril 13th, 2024

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Rosali - Tulips, Fort Worth, Texas, May 16, 2022

People! In exactly one week, Rosali is kicking off her BITE DOWN Tour ... in Denver, of all places! As I think I mentioned, I'll be there, opening up the show with my band Prairiewolf. An honor, a privilege, etc. It's a stacked bill, with the great cosmic country rockers Color Green playing, too. There will be no better way to spend a Tuesday night in the Mile High City — I personally guarantee it. (And hey, if you want to come out, Prairiewolf has some tickets to sell that don't have any pesky extra fees. Get in touch if you want one!)

Bite Down, coming out on March 22, is Rosali's latest and, in my opinion, greatest LP. I've been describing it to people as Chrissie Hynde & Crazy Horse, which is probably a little on-the-nose, but I'll stand by it. With David Nance and co. providing backing that balances wild abandon with searing precision, it's an instant classic. It's also Rosali's first release on Merge Records, so I'm expecting her to be headlining much bigger venues very soon.

Don't take my word for it, here's Dan Bejar: "Bite Down makes me think about singers and bands that throw themselves hard into the storm, the way the Rosali quartet does. … The calm of her voice over top of the band’s raging—it is the emblem of songs that live to put themselves in harm’s way. But it’s not harm. It’s just that you have to play hard to get at these goods. The calm of Rosali’s voice, the straight talk of her inner search vs. the wildness of the band, the sonic storm she rides in on. That’s their sound."

Yes. And hey, click the link above to check out Rosali opening for Dan's Destroyer a few years back — a short/sweet set, a whole lotta lightning.

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It's getting late To shoot this, I don't wanna lose the lie

It's great To cloak you in a golden hour

Time and space Combine and remain meaningless

An empty vase In love with all my pretty dresses

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Mischa Bachinski is what Destroyer had in mind when he wrote "A girl in every port but the world still makes fun of you" I know it he told me himself.

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Destroyer - Kaputt (2011)

Does anyone still listen to this?

I do.

One of the 2010s indie gems.

Check it out if you haven't.

~ soft-rock, lush, synths, sax, reverb

> romantic, cheesy you might call it but I like it. good lyrics and vibe.

Fav tracks: Savage night at the opera, Kaputt, Suicide Demo for Kara Walker, Blue Eyes, Chinatown.

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Destroyer - The Laziest River (Lazyflow Mix)

With this my imaginary remix album with songs from Destroyer is now complete. Totally kaputter!

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Rosali Live Preview: 4/18, Empty Bottle, Chicago

Photo by Asia Harman

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Isn't it remarkable that Destroyer's Dan Bejar, the king of obtuseness, managed to so deftly nail his description of Bite Down (Merge), the fourth album from indie rock musician Rosali? Bejar referred to Rosali's instrumental and lyrical evolution as sporting a "hard-won ease;" I couldn't help but come back to that phrase when listening to standout track "Hills on Fire". As Rosali Middleman gently sings validations like, "That color looks so good on you," her backing band, David Nance's Mowed Sound, hint at something darker, James Schroeder's guitars growing increasingly scraggly. Eventually, Middleman sings, "I can be hellish and awful, too / Anger built in my youth." It's a moment where you realize that Bite Down shows Rosali as wise in her reflective realism, while still avoiding cynicism and leaving room for hope.

Bite Down was written after Rosali moved from her long-time home of Philadelphia to North Carolina; it concerns physical and emotional change while remaining astonishingly present. That interplay is reflected in both her words and the band's instrumentation. Take "Rewind", an easygoing, earnest, romantic country rock song that sees the silver lining in bad times. Eventually, the band's subtle freak-outs yield effects that sound like someone attempting to whoosh back in time but being held back and reminded to live in the moment. On "Slow Pain", Middleman dives head first into her angst, atop steady, pattering drums from Kevin Donahue and Schroeder's restrained lead guitar. "Have you seen my grief? Hold it so I don't spill out," she sings. The song eventually lets you into Middleman's head with piercing guitars resisting being muted, as she describes, "Killing time with the slow pain." And the title track fights despair with Ted Bois' groovy keyboard lines and Megan Siebe's warm cello, Middleman reaching out for help: "I can't seem to bring myself ashore / Put aside your foolish pride / To move beyond the rising tide."

Photo by Harrison Martin

Sure, there are a few songs on Bite Down that center on moods more static: ennui ("Hopeless"), pain ("Is It Too Late"), even horniness (earworm opener "On Tonight"). But it all comes together on the building, burning closer "May It Be on Offer". "And I do wonder / And waste my life / No, I don't wonder / If I waste my life," Middleman sings, clarifying that she knows that "[sitting] for hours / Gazing at the light" is what most would consider bed rotting. As the song progresses, though--keyboard humming, guitars fluttering--Middleman's outlook is brighter. "There is hope upon me / There is reason to try," she sings, a hymnal, or maybe a lullaby, singing herself not to sleep but back to that hard-won ease.

Rosali plays the Empty Bottle tonight, with a backing band of Nance, Schroeder, and Donahue. Local indie rockers Fran open. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. Tickets still available at time of publication.

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Destroyer – Music Hall of Williamsburg – April 5, 2024

He’s been a member of the beloved Canadian rock collective the New Pornographers, but singer-songwriter Dan Bejar launched what was initially a solo project, Destroyer, nearly 30 years ago, quickly earning comparisons to David Bowie in the process.

He’s since experimented with a variety of sounds, and on the 13th Destroyer album, Labyrinthitis, “a career peek,” per Pop Matters, which arrived about two years ago. It’s a record “that finds Bejar continuing to transition from being merely an admirable artist into one that’s approachable on a deeper level. As an entry into Destroyer, Labyrinthitis succeeds in a plethora of ways, but where it works the most is in transforming a notoriously prickly artist into one with the unforeseen capacity to retract his spikes. Hard to stand out as a destroyer, it appears, if everything’s already on the cusp of destruction.”  

Halfway into a solo North American tour, accompanied by producer and guitarist and frequent collaborator David Carswell, Bejar headlined a sold-out Music Hall of Williamsburg on Saturday night.

Photos courtesy of Ellen Qbertplaya | @Qbertplaya

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The New Pornographers - Continue as a Guest

Creo que no me equivoco si digo que The New Pornographers es una de las bandas que más alegrías me han dado en las últimas dos décadas. Desde que me compré aquél ‘Mass Romantic’, allá por 2001 -ya sé que salió a finales del 2000, pero aquí íbamos un poco atrasados-, no me he saltado ni uno solo de sus discos. Y sí, como cualquier banda con una carrera algo longeva, tienen álbumes mejores y…