(Alan) Carl Newman [b. c1968] is a Canadian musician and songwriter. He was a member of the indie rock bands Superconductor and Zumpano in the 1990s. Following the breakup of those bands, he reemerged as the leader of The New Pornographers in 2000. He has also released a solo album as A. C. Newman. Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ... Zumpano was a Canadian indie rock group in the 1990s. ... // Events and trends The 1990s in its most obvious sense refers to the years 1990 to 1999, but has held a strong influence into the 2000s. ... Group photo of The New Pornographers. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...
Their sound is highly influenced by that of such power pop bands as The Cars and Cheap Trick; their songs, however, are generally of a greater melodic and harmonic complexity.
CarlNewman, who writes about 80 percent of the band's material, has said, "When I seriously started to try to write songs, my main influences were, like, Burt Bacharach, Jim Webb, and Brian Wilson.
Newman, however, doesn't care for the term: "I'm really tired of that supergroup label, and I wish people would stop using it.
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