More Pornography Is a Very Good Thing

The third album by mighty morphin' power-poppers the New Pornographers, Twin Cinema, goes on sale tomorrow. For Seattlest, this is like Beatlemania meets Pottermania, except that Pornomania likely won't be nuts enough to inspire a Robert Zemeckis film.

We downloaded "Twin Cinema" from the Pornographers' website weeks ago. We heard "Jackie Dressed in Cobras" on KEXP this weekend. We've read a ton of good reviews of the new album.

Because we're so giddy with anticipation, we'll be at the Ballard branch of Sonic Boom Records by 11 p.m. tonight. The Pornographers are kicking off a national tour with an in-store performance for the hour or so leading up to the official sale date.

If you love the Pornographers but just can't stay out that late on a school night, they'll be performing live in studio tomorrow on KEXP at 3:00 p.m., during Kevin Cole's show. If (like us) you're not available at 3:00, you can download the performance from KEXP's site for the next couple of weeks.

Always-awesome sometime-Pornographer Neko Case is performing a (sold out) concert at the Woodland Park Zoo on Sunday the 28th.

And the full group will be back in town on September 25 24 for a performance at the Showbox.