Destroyer with The War on Drugs
Hear Destroyer live at The Cedar, fronted by the enigmatic Dan Bejar, and touring as an 8-piece band in support of new album Kaputt (Merge Records, Jan 25, 2011). Dan Bejar sent Merge some of the themes “alluded to or avoided” in the album Kaputt, in absolutely no linear order:
Kaputt by Malaparte, which Bejar has never read ... Kara Walker, specifically the lyrics she contributed to the song “Suicide Demo for Kara Walker” ... Chinatown, the neighborhood bordering on Bejar’s ... Baby blue eyes ... 80s Miles Davis ... 90s Gil Evans ... Last Tango in Paris ... Nic Bragg, who played lead guitar on every song, again ... Fretless bass ... The hopelessness of the future of music ... The pointlessness of writing songs for today ... V-Drums ... The superiority of poetry and plays ... And what’s to become of film? ... The Cocaine Addict ... American Communism ... Downtown, the neighborhood bordering on Bejar’s ... The LinnDrum ... Avalon and, more specifically, Boys and Girls ... The devastated mind of JC/DC, who recorded, produced and mixed this record from fall of 2008 to spring of 2010 ... The back-up vocals of certain Roy Ayers and Long John Baldry tours ... Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence.
Welcome to Destroyer’s 9th…
Opening the evening will be Philadelphia's The War on Drugs, with a recent EP Future Weather out on Secretly Canadian.
Tickets are on sale now from the Cedar Ticketline (612-338-2674 ext 2), from hard-working Cedar volunteers in the front lobby during shows, from Cedar outlets (Electric Fetus and Depth of Field), and online at Ticketweb.
All Cedar shows are all ages. Students with ID may gain discounted admission for tickets purchased at the door.
Over the course of his career as Destroyer, Dan Bejar has established himself and his band as one of the most unpredictable success stories in modern popular music. As a songwriter, Bejar is recognized as having few peers. As a musician, he is like the...
Philedelphia's The War on Drugs reside at the blurred edges of American music: overexposing studio limitations, piling tape upon tape to maximum density, and then -- with each song -- they pull off the scaffolding to reveal what sticks, keeping only what's...
Major Funders
This activity is made possible in part by a grant provided by the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature from the Minnesota arts and cultural heritage fund with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008
