Dan Bejar

Dan Bejar
Dan Bejar performing with Destroyer at Roskilde Festival 2011.
Background information
Born	October 1972 (age 38–39)
Origin	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Genres	Chamber pop, indie pop
Occupations	Musician
Instruments	Vocals, guitar
Years active	1995–present
Labels	Tinker, Granted Passage Cassettes, Merge, Endearing, Jagjaguwar, Locust Records, Rough Trade, Misra Records
Associated acts	Destroyer, The New Pornographers, Swan Lake, Hello, Blue Roses, aaron schroeder & the mustaches, Bonaparte, Heartbreak Scene

Daniel Bejar ( /ˈbeɪhɑr/; born October 1972^[1]) is an independent singer-songwriter from Vancouver renowned for his challenging and often cryptic lyrics and unorthodox vocals featured in many of his songs. Bejar has gained widespread popularity through his musical collaborations with Vancouver indie-rock band The New Pornographers, but has released far more material as the frontman of his band Destroyer. In 2006, he joined with Carey Mercer of Frog Eyes and Spencer Krug of Sunset Rubdown and Wolf Parade to create another indie group known as Swan Lake.^[2] He has more recently collaborated with his girlfriend Sydney Vermont's band Bonaparte, as well as joining with her to form the duo Hello, Blue Roses, whose debut album The Portrait Is Finished and I Have Failed to Capture Your Beauty... was released in January 2008.

A March 2011 article in The New Yorker revealed the visual artist Dan Bejar's elaborate efforts at impersonating the musical Dan Bejar, creating confusion and errors in media coverage between the two different men with the same name.^[3]

Discography

Year	Title	Label	Band
1996	We'll Build Them a Golden Bridge	Tinker Records	Destroyer
1997	Ideas for Songs	Granted Passage Cassettes	Destroyer
1998	City of Daughters	Endearing/Triple Crown Audio	Destroyer
2000	Vancouver Nights	Endearing	Vancouver Nights
2000	Mass Romantic	(CA: Mint Records; US and EU: Matador Records)	The New Pornographers
2000	Thief	Catsup Plate/Triple Crown Audio/Cave Canem Records	Destroyer
2001	Streethawk: A Seduction	Misra/Talitres Records	Destroyer
2002	This Night	Merge/Talitres Records	Destroyer
2003	Electric Version	(CA: Mint Records; US and EU: Matador Records)	The New Pornographers
2004	Your Blues	Merge/Talitres/Acuarela Discos	Destroyer
2005	Notorious Lightning & Other Works (EP)	Merge	Destroyer
2005	Twin Cinema	(CA: Mint Records; US and EU: Matador Records)	The New Pornographers
2006	Destroyer's Rubies	Merge	Destroyer
2006	Beast Moans	Jagjaguwar	Swan Lake
2007	Challengers	(CA: Last Gang Records; US and EU: Matador Records)	The New Pornographers
2007	The Szabo Songbook	Fayettenam Records	Heartbreak Scene
2008	The Portrait Is Finished...	Locust Records	Hello, Blue Roses
2008	Trouble in Dreams	Merge/Rough Trade	Destroyer
2009	Enemy Mine	Jagjaguwar	Swan Lake
2009	Bay of Pigs (EP)	Merge	Destroyer
2010	Together	Matador Records	The New Pornographers
2010	Archer on the Beach (EP)	Merge	Destroyer
2011	Kaputt	Merge	Destroyer

References

1. ^ Matt LaMay "Pitchfork Interviews: Destroyer", Pitchforkmedia.com, June 12, 2006
2. ^ Matthew Solarski, "Exclusive: Mercer, Bejar, Krug Join Forces as Swan Lake", PitchforkMedia.com, March 28, 2006.
3. ^ http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2011/03/21/110321ta_talk_sanneh

External links

• Destroyer at Merge Records
• Destroyer at Misra Records
• Dan Bejar talks Kara Walker and "Kaputt"
• The Ratio - Destroyer Special Issue
• *sixeyes Interview - Destroyer's Dan Bejar Interview
• Dan Bejar's 'Other' Band NPR segment aired 18 March 2006

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Name	Bejar, Dan
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