“I was like the laziest river, A vulture predisposed to eating off floors,” Dan Bejar sings in the opening lines of Have We Met’s opening number, “Crimson Tide,” before reconsidering. “No wait, I take ...
Dan Bejar, aka Destroyer, has been around since the mid-’90s. He has a stream of loyal fans who dig his changing styles of albums while always maintaining an organic, ever progressing poetry of sorts.
The last we heard from Dan Bejar, it was early 2020 and he was touring behind a spooky and prescient Destroyer album, Have We Met. A sinister work rife with apocalyptic warnings about the future, the ...
There’s an article about Destroyer in this week’s paper, AND there’s also an extended Q&A with frontman Dan Bejar over on End Hits. It’s this-a-way. Bejar’s Destroyer project has undergone many ...
On his eleventh studio album, Poison Season, Destroyer‘s Dan Bejar has moved beyond the quiet confrontation of 2011’s Kaputt and into a musical realm more orchestral and far-reaching. That’s not to ...
There's a moment about eight minutes into Dan's Boogie, the expansive 14th studio album by Destroyer, when Dan Bejar drops the niceties and gives into his Freudian id: "Women fill out, men crumble ...
Dan Bejar’s prolific Destroyer project returns March 28 with its 14th album, Dan’s Boogie (Merge), which is led by the single “Bologna.” Bejar stars in its accompanying David Galloway–directed video, ...
“I approach touring with a certain amount of dread,” says Dan Bejar. We are in the basement of the Empty Bottle, that great music club in Wicker Park, and sitting on couches that might belong in any ...
Canadian singer-songwriter Dan Bejar has been sharing thoughts about the world outside his window for 30 years. Early on as the frontman of Destroyer, which oscillates between a solo project and a ...
Dan Bejar doesn’t consider music his “first calling.” He feels he’d be more suited for the monotony of career in data entry instead. “I think it seems soothing,” he says. A sense of jittery uneasiness ...
Dan Bejar — the founder, lead singer, and chief songwriter of his long-running Vancouver group Destroyer — has announced fourteen solo shows in March and April 2024. As Brooklyn Vegan notes, “solo” is ...
Destroyer’s Dan Bejar Studiously Ignores Self-destructive Behavior at ShowHe was apparently unfazed by constant streams of pot smoke, a minor fight by the stage, and a guy in the balcony who performed ...