The National Are Playing a Free Show in Toronto As part of NXNE As I tweeted yesterday, The National have announced a new album due for release in May. This is great news, since their last album (High Violet) was...
Jay-Z’s Made in America Festival Pulls Out All the Stops The inaugural Made In America festival, curated and topped by Jay-Z, certainly had a lot of surprises. Sadly, free beer was not upon the surprises. To some it all up...
Matt Beringer’s baritone is a major strength of the National and one that makes some of their good songs great. But on this new track, Matt starts off in a sort of spoken word slow chant, immediately drawing in the...
The Nick Cave side project, Grinderman, have been remixed and include vocals from Matt Berninger from The National. Nick Cave has said that Grinderman are taking an extended hiatus, so listen to a piece of it while you can. Evil...
K’Naan Wants Mitt Romney to Stop Using His Song Every time I hear Waving Flag by Canadian/Somalian rapper, K’Naan, I want a Coke – bloody marketing campaign! K’Naan still loves “his” song (that he sold), so much so that he...
The 3 day, December UK festival, All Tomorrow’s Parties, has a rotation of artists curating the line up each year. This year, as noted on their Twitter account, will be The National. Some of the artists that they have already...
The National are going to do some experimenting – I hope they make eatable phones, so that I get even angrier when I lose mine. What is (unfortunately) actually happening is that members Aaron and Bryce Dessner will perform the...
The National’s, er, national tour of Canada just hit Montreal. Who else is from Montreal? Why, the Arcade Fire! And since they are doing nothing (but composing a fourth, brilliant album – right, guys?), lead singer Win Butler and other...
The National Debut a Couple of New Tunes The National were in Toronto yesterday and playing the Air Canada Centre, a far cry from their previous, smaller engagements at the Kool Haus and Massey Hall. Before the show, the National...
As we await The National’s followup to the brilliant High Violet album, we have a song to help us from going crazy with anticipation. Or maybe it will have the opposite effect, realizing what we’re missing. Thankfully, some video games...
