Showing All "The National" Posts
May 14th 4 Comments
Everything feels heavier at night. Alone at home after dark, whatever solipsistic sentiment was developing by day takes on titanic proportions. All sense of perspective vanishes along with the… Read Story »
May 13th 13 Comments
Hey, don't click out of iTunes just yet! The National's Trouble Will Find Me is streaming there, too, in advance of its release. Check out the record here and revisit our Premature Evaluation to see… Read Story »
May 10th 86 Comments
At this point, six albums in, the National are practically a genre unto themselves. On Alligator, the first album that many of us noticed, they had a dark and driving intensity that didn't seem too… Read Story »
May 10th 3 Comments
Have you watched the 15-minute Red Bull Music Academy documentary about DFA? Or the hour-long Savages Ministry Of Sound show? No? You should do those things. As ever, there was plenty of amazing… Read Story »
May 8th 15 Comments
The National's new album Trouble Will Find Me is only a couple of weeks away from release, and they've now dropped a video for one of its songs, the gracefully churning brood "Sea Of Love." Director… Read Story »
May 6th 8 Comments
Last month, we learned that the National were planning a six-hour show, one that would consist entirely of one song -- "Sorrow," from High Violet -- played over and over ad infinitum. Only the… Read Story »
Apr 26th 9 Comments
Last night on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, the National were the musical guests, and they used the opportunity to play a couple of new songs from their forthcoming album Trouble Will Find Me, songs… Read Story »
Apr 24th 15 Comments
MoMA PS1, the Queens outpost of the famed NYC modern art museum, will feature a six-hour long performance of the High Violet track "Sorrow" by the National. Since September, the Long Island City art… Read Story »
Apr 15th 3 Comments
Awaiting Trouble Will Find Me has sent us into a well-deserved National frenzy. We have already heard two singles off the forthcoming album, one of which came with a pretty cool time-lapse video. It… Read Story »
Apr 11th 31 Comments
The National's feverishly anticipated new album Trouble Will Find Me comes out next month, and you guys sure seemed to like the first single "Demons." "Don't Swallow The Cap," the second Trouble Will… Read Story »
