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Parade Due Out April 29 via Oscar St.
Mar 15, 2022
By Mark Redfern
Frontperson (the duo of The New Pornographers’ Kathryn Calder and Woodpigeon’s Mark Andrew Hamilton) are releasing of their sophomore studio album, Parade, on April 29 via Oscar St. Now they have shared its second single, “Ostalgie (Für C. Bischoff),” via a video for the new song. More
Parade Due Out April 29 via Oscar St.
Feb 17, 2022
By Joey Arnone
Frontperson (the duo of The New Pornographers’ Kathryn Calder and Woodpigeon’s Mark Andrew Hamilton) have announced the release of their sophomore studio album, Parade, which will be out on April 29 via Oscar St. They have also shared a video for the album’s title track. More
Mass Romantic Reissue Due Out December 10 via Matador; Band Also Celebrating 16th Anniversary of Twin Cinema on Tour
Jul 13, 2021
By Mark Redfern
The New Pornographers have announced a 21st anniversary edition of their 2000-released album Mass Romantic. They have also announced some tour dates where they perform either Mass Romantic or 2005’s Twin Cinema (turning sweet 16 this year) in their entirety. More
Frontrunner Due Out This Friday via Oscar St.
Sep 17, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Frontperson is a new duo that features Kathryn Calder of The New Pornographers (and also a solo artist and formerly of Immaculate Machine) and Mark Andrew Hamilton (who has released six albums as Woodpigeon). They are releasing their debut album, Frontrunner, this Friday (September 21) via Calder’s own label, Oscar St. Now they have shared another song from the album, “Long Night,” via a video for it. It stars Tranna Wintour, a Canadian comedian who sings along to the song in the video. More
Frontrunner Due Out September 21 via Oscar St.
Sep 04, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Frontperson is a new duo that features Kathryn Calder of The New Pornographers (and also a solo artist and formerly of Immaculate Machine) and Mark Andrew Hamilton (who has released six albums as Woodpigeon). They are releasing their debut album, Frontrunner, on September 21 via Calder’s own label, Oscar St. Previously they shared a video for its first single, “Tick - Tock (Frontrunner)” (which was one of our Songs of the Week). Now they have shared another song from the album, “Young Love,” via a video for it. More
Plus The Lemon Twigs, Christine and the Queens, Phantastic Ferniture, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks
Jul 13, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Hello again. We haven’t done a Songs of the Week for almost five weeks, since June 9. We were on vacation from mid to late June and then when we returned there really weren’t enough compelling songs last week to justify doing Songs of the Week lists, mainly because of the July 4th holiday being smack dab in the middle of the week and so labels mainly avoided sharing new songs. More
Frontrunner Due Out September 21 via Oscar St., Watch the Video for "Tick - Tock (Frontrunner)"
Jul 09, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Frontperson is a new duo that features Kathryn Calder of The New Pornographers (and also a solo artist and formerly of Immaculate Machine) and Mark Andrew Hamilton (who has released six albums as Woodpigeon). More
Self-titled Solo LP Out April 12
Mar 26, 2015
By Katie LaBranche
Kathryn Calder of The New Pornographers has released a new single, “Song In Cm,” off her self-titled new solo LP, due out April 12 via File Under: Music. More
Off Upcoming "Bright and Vivid"
Sep 29, 2011
By Mike Hilleary
Leading up to the release of her upcoming solo sophomore LP Bright and Vivid, New Pornographers Keyboardist/vocalist Kathryn Calder has premiered a cool music video for the album track “Who Are You?” More
Bright and Vivid Out October 25
Aug 19, 2011
By Laura Studarus
The New Pornographers’ Kathryn Calder is heading out on her own for the second time. On October 25 the singer/songwriter will release Bright and Vivid (via File Under: Music). We have the deatails and first single. More
First Ever Solo Excursion for New Pornographers Keyboardist/Vocalist
Apr 19, 2011
By John Everhart
New Pornographers keyboardist/vocalist Kathyrn Calder has announced details of her first ever solo tour. We have the dates. More
Cut from Album Are You My Mother
Dec 13, 2010
By Laura Studarus
Sometimes New Pornographer, always admirable solo artist Kathryn Calder just released a video for “Arrow,” a cut off album, Are You My Mother. We have the clip. More
Aug 12, 2010
By Kathryn Calder
Under the Radar‘s Summer 2010 Issue is a special issue named the Wasted on the Youth Issue that features musicians and actors talking about their childhood memories and things they loved when they were kids. We’re also posting web-exclusive essays that were not printed in the issue, including this one about Knight Rider by The New Pornographers’ Kathryn Calder. More
Interviews
Nov 12, 2018
By Mark Redfern
My Firsts is our email interview series where we ask musicians to tell us about their first life experiences, be it early childhood ones (first word, first concert, etc.) or their first tastes of being a musician (first band, first tour, etc.). For this My Firsts we talk to Mark Andrew Hamilton of Frontperson (he has also released six albums as the leader of Woodpigeon). More