The National

This awards season, Hollywood bigwigs are shining some light on indie music – first Bon Iver’s Bon Iver received a Grammy nomination or two, now the shortlist for the Oscar…

Everyone and their dad’s favorite contemplative sad-rock Brooklyn band, the National, took to Q’s Toronto studios and delivered recordings of two brand new songs. The band are in top form…

You might not have heard of producer Peter Katis, but he’s manned the tables for such bands as the National, Fanfarlo, Interpol, and countless others, and now some of those…

Everyone loves it when their favorite artists cover their favorite artists, so you can probably understand our being super excited about our favorite Brooklyn-via-Denmark electro-songstress covering our favorite Brooklyn-via-Ohio album-of-the-year-delivering…

Illustrious indie rockers the National have announced a short string of shows kicking off at the end of November and wrapping up right before the Holidays ramp up. The short…

In case you’ve forgotten, The National — who gave us our favorite album of 2010 — have offered up plenty of new music in 2011 without ever committing to releasing…

Mumford & Sons have received much international success on account of their debut Sigh No More, earning them a trip to the Grammy Awards and constant radio airtime. Quite the…

The National have been keeping busy. One would think that the success of last year’s powerful High Violet (and PMA’s number one album of 2010) would let them relax a…

Things that are unsurprising: Grinderman have compiled some remixes and demos of a track from their second self-titled record on a special release for Record Store Day. Said song is…

Last week, we heard the beautiful new National tune, “Think You Can Wait,” which would also be the theme song to Tom McCarthy’s new film, Win Win, starring Paul Giamatti.…

Director Tom McCarthy’s new Paul Giamatti starring movie Win Win, about an attorney/wrestling coach who discovers a star athlete, must be inspirational and moving. We know this because Matt Berninger…

This explains all those ads on Pitchfork. For the last few days there’s been pics of Mad Men’s John Slattery accompanied by The National‘s Matt Berninger and Aaron and Bryce…

It’s been well over three years since New York based indie rockers The Forms put out their self-titled sophomore LP, but that hasn’t dissuaded the band, now a duo, from…

As we all know, Sufjan Stevens is an ardent Christmas enthusiast, having released a Christmas EP every year for the last five years (now available as a boxed set entitled…

New York rockers The National might have released their best record yet with this year’s triumphant High Violet; in an effort to promote what will assuredly go down as one…

This gorgeous alternate version of High Violet‘s opening track, “Terrible Love,”  will appear on reissue/extended edition of the album as well as on a single pressed on 7″ violet vinyl,…

WATCH: Daft Punk Join Phoenix in NYC Last night, Daft Punk hit the stage at Phoenix‘s show in New York City’s iconic Madison Square Garden arena during their encore. With…

The National stopped by Minnesota Public Radio’s The Current and performed a (quite gorgeous) four-song set that consisted of High Violet‘s “England”, “Terrible Love”, and “Bloodbuzz Ohio”, as well as…

LISTEN: New The National – “You Were A Kindness” The National stopped by Minnesota Public Radio’s The Current and performed a (quite gorgeous) four-song set that consisted of High Violet‘s…

2010 marks SPIN Magazine’s 25th Anniversary and to celebrate the momentous occasion, together with ZYNC from American Express, the magazine are putting on 5 huge shows in New York City…