Early next year, the Brooklyn singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten will release her new album Tramp, which the National's Aaron Dessner produced. The album features a ton of contributions from various…   Read Story »

A full moon shined the background of a lovely evening at the Hollywood Bowl that starred The National with Neko Case (with T Bone Burnett) and Sharon Van Etten. The National had some help on vocals…   Read Story »

Festival photography is generally delivered from the vantage of the photo pits, and so we did, but this year we decided to present a more unique perspective on Bonnaroo's sights. With the help of…   Read Story »

The National's "Think You Can Wait" is the theme song for Thomas McCarthy-directed (and Paul Giamatti-starring) "sports comedy-drama" Win Win. Matt Berninger told HitFlix that the track, which…   Read Story »

Sharon Van Etten is, according to Pitchfork, working on recording the followup to Epic with The National's Aaron Dessner. That's good news. The album sessions have to fit in between her tour for…   Read Story »

Air Waves is the rollicking, down-home folk-rock project of Austin-via-New York resident Nicole Schneit. At times a certain warm gruffness in her voice reminds me of tUnE-YaRdS' Merrill Garbus (in a…   Read Story »

The main attraction at the Chris Knox Benefit show was, for most, the promised short, live set by Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum. It seemed like everyone was impatient and antsy during the earlier…   Read Story »

Amrit and I saw Inception just before the start of this year’s Pitchfork Festival, so you have to read this post with the understanding that the first day may have been a dream, or maybe you are in…   Read Story »

One last gargantuan batch of photos from an exhausting, exhaustive week of NYC showgoing. On Friday Jessica Amaya joined us at Doveman's record release party at the Elevated Hole, a Chelsea loft…   Read Story »

Kyp Malone releases his solo debut as Rain Machine today via ANTI-, so think of last night's tour kickoff at Brooklyn's Bell House as a hometown friends, fam, and neighbors album-release party. A…   Read Story »