Thirty years ago, Dan Bejar picked up an acoustic guitar and started performing as Destroyer. Since then, the project has consistently evolved: into a full band on 1998’s City of Daughters, toward pop ...

When it comes to Dan Bejar and his band Destroyer, I completely missed that boat. Literally. Dan Bejar announced several months ago that Destroyer would be hosting a cruise to Alaska and all you had ...

Download Destroyer’s “Foam Hands” (4.4 MB) or stream it below. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. From the MIDI-based symphonies of 2004’s Your Blues to the ...

It’s been said before, quite possibly about every album Destroyer’s released in the past 15 years, but the latest, Have We Met, is a very different Destroyer album. On one hand, it's dark, eerie, and ...

This image is from the official album artwork for ‘Labyrinthitis,’ owned by Merge Records. The album’s opening track, “It’s in Your Heart Now,” immediately establishes the album’s musical texture with ...

There are bands that, once you find your way into the music, feel like rabbit holes to tumble down. Artistry, technical proficiency, lyrical and/or sonic innovation, happenstance, and talent that ...

Between his exploits with the Canadian band New Pornographers and his solo project, Destroyer, Dan Bejar has been an undeniably influential presence in the indie rock world since this millennium began ...

Trying to predict where Dan Bejar's muse will take his music is a fool's errand for fans of his work as Destroyer or as part of Canadian "supergroup" New Pornographers. He doesn't know himself, and ...