The National took to the late night stage Friday to perform “Tropic Morning News” on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Frontman Matt Berninger led the vocals while backed with bandmates Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Bryan Devendorf, and Scott Devendorf.
In January, the group announced their upcoming album First Two Pages of Frankenstein, sharing “Tropic Morning News” as the project’s lead single. The following month, they released “New Order T-Shirt,” the second pre-release track from their ninth studio album set for release on April 28.
The album is the band...
In January, the group announced their upcoming album First Two Pages of Frankenstein, sharing “Tropic Morning News” as the project’s lead single. The following month, they released “New Order T-Shirt,” the second pre-release track from their ninth studio album set for release on April 28.
The album is the band...
- 3/4/2023
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
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The National released their new track “New Order T-Shirt” on Thursday. The song is the second pre-release track from their ninth studio album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein, set for release on April 28.
“New Order T-Shirt” is a nostalgic, lovelorn story led by singer Matt Berninger. “I keep what I can of you/
Split-second glimpses and snapshots and sounds/ You in my New Order t-shirt,” Berninger sings. “I...
The National released their new track “New Order T-Shirt” on Thursday. The song is the second pre-release track from their ninth studio album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein, set for release on April 28.
“New Order T-Shirt” is a nostalgic, lovelorn story led by singer Matt Berninger. “I keep what I can of you/
Split-second glimpses and snapshots and sounds/ You in my New Order t-shirt,” Berninger sings. “I...
- 2/23/2023
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
Long Pond Studios, the upstate New York location where Aaron Dessner has churned out record after record for both himself and his collaborators, is the musical gift that keeps on giving. Its latest creative output is the National’s newly-announced ninth studio album First Two Pages of Frankenstein, set for release on April 28.
Led by frontman Matt Berninger — with Dessner on guitar, piano, and bass, and his brother Bryce Dessner on both guitarist and pianist, Bryan Devendorf on drums, and Scott Devendorf also on bass and guitar — the record will...
Led by frontman Matt Berninger — with Dessner on guitar, piano, and bass, and his brother Bryce Dessner on both guitarist and pianist, Bryan Devendorf on drums, and Scott Devendorf also on bass and guitar — the record will...
- 1/18/2023
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
Big Red Machine stopped by The Late Show to showcase their new song “New Auburn.”
In the performance, Aaron Dessner takes on the piano part and is joined by Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold, Anais Mitchell, the Westerlies, and the National’s Scott Devendorf, as well as drummer Jt Bates and keyboardist Nick Lloyd. The intimate song sees Mitchell sharing vocals with Pecknold, who stands in for band member Justin Vernon.
“New Auburn” is the closing track on Big Red Machine’s the upcoming collaboration-heavy LP How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?...
In the performance, Aaron Dessner takes on the piano part and is joined by Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold, Anais Mitchell, the Westerlies, and the National’s Scott Devendorf, as well as drummer Jt Bates and keyboardist Nick Lloyd. The intimate song sees Mitchell sharing vocals with Pecknold, who stands in for band member Justin Vernon.
“New Auburn” is the closing track on Big Red Machine’s the upcoming collaboration-heavy LP How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?...
- 8/11/2021
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
The National announced a new photo book, Light Years, available through their fan club.
The release — which features newly published images, essays and band member quotes — chronicles the band’s two-decade relationship with Scottish photographer Graham MacIndoe.
Six versions of Light Years are available to preorder via the Cherry Tree shop, and some will be paired with a vinyl LP of songs curated by MacIndoe and bassist Scott Devendorf, highlighting the band’s September 2018 shows at New York’s Forest Hills Stadium. (As of this writing, three editions are already sold out.
The release — which features newly published images, essays and band member quotes — chronicles the band’s two-decade relationship with Scottish photographer Graham MacIndoe.
Six versions of Light Years are available to preorder via the Cherry Tree shop, and some will be paired with a vinyl LP of songs curated by MacIndoe and bassist Scott Devendorf, highlighting the band’s September 2018 shows at New York’s Forest Hills Stadium. (As of this writing, three editions are already sold out.
- 3/23/2021
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
The National’s Aaron Dessner and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, who collaborate under the name Big Red Machine, covered Aimee Mann’s “Wise Up” as part of the Eaux Claires Festival voting initiative “For Wisconsin.”
Dessner fronts the studio take, full of electronic drums, brass, harmonies, layered guitars and Vernon’s prominent backing vocals. “It’s not what you thought when you first began it,” he sings. “You got what you want; now you can hardly stand it, though.”
The track also features guest contributors Mina Tindle, Jon Low,...
Dessner fronts the studio take, full of electronic drums, brass, harmonies, layered guitars and Vernon’s prominent backing vocals. “It’s not what you thought when you first began it,” he sings. “You got what you want; now you can hardly stand it, though.”
The track also features guest contributors Mina Tindle, Jon Low,...
- 11/3/2020
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
“I’m near the bottom/Name the blues, I’ve got ‘em,” the National frontman Matt Berninger sings on the delicately despondent “Oh, Dearie,” from his debut solo LP. It’s a song about being completely asphyxiated by fear and doubt — certainly a message for our times. But don’t call the crisis hotline just yet. The music is more reassuringly cozy than last-ditch dire, with the singer pouring his enveloping, care-worn baritone over softly illuminating piano and a “Dust in the Wind” acoustic figure. The sound is par for...
- 10/17/2020
- by Jon Dolan
- Rollingstone.com
It’s 7 a.m. in Venice, and Matt Berninger has already been up for four and a half hours. Why? The National frontman and his wife, Carin Besser, are still polishing up songs for Cyrano, a years-long musical project based on the 1897 play about the life of a 17th-century French writer. Besser, who writes best at night, had been working on the songs until 2:30 a.m., at which point Berninger woke up and spent the dark hours of the morning finishing up what she started.
This type of creative...
This type of creative...
- 10/16/2020
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
Fifty years ago this May, Robert Hunter popped into a pizza parlor in Menlo Park, California, to see his friend Jerry Garcia play in his new electric band, the Warlocks. “They were good, just dandy,” recalls Hunter, sitting in the living room of his San Rafael, California, home. “It was hard to believe Jerry in a rock & roll band, I’ve got to say. He was a folk musician. But then to become a rock & roll band, him and Bill and Weir and Pigpen—it was amusing. It just seemed unlikely,...
- 3/9/2015
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Director: Tom Berninger; Starring: Tom Berninger, Matt Berninger, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Bryan Devendorf, Scott Devendorf; Running time: 75 mins; Certificate: 15
The National, if you're not already aware, are a commercially and critically successful indie rock band with Grammy nominations, headline arena tours and a President Obama endorsement to show for it. But according to Tom Berninger, the metalhead loafer younger brother of lead singer Matt, they're just not his thing - they don't party, they don't do drugs and their "pleasant" music is a little too Starbucks for Cbgb.
That Tom is behind a movie about the band instead of say, Arcade Fire's hangabout Spike Jonze or any other big-time Hollywood director, can't help but sound strange. But Mistaken for Strangers is something else. What starts as a small rock doc of The National inadvertently turns into an incredibly funny, sad, weird story about the Berninger brothers' sort-of-estranged relationship...
The National, if you're not already aware, are a commercially and critically successful indie rock band with Grammy nominations, headline arena tours and a President Obama endorsement to show for it. But according to Tom Berninger, the metalhead loafer younger brother of lead singer Matt, they're just not his thing - they don't party, they don't do drugs and their "pleasant" music is a little too Starbucks for Cbgb.
That Tom is behind a movie about the band instead of say, Arcade Fire's hangabout Spike Jonze or any other big-time Hollywood director, can't help but sound strange. But Mistaken for Strangers is something else. What starts as a small rock doc of The National inadvertently turns into an incredibly funny, sad, weird story about the Berninger brothers' sort-of-estranged relationship...
- 6/6/2014
- Digital Spy
1. Lead singer Matt Berninger has a brother.
As anyone who's been following the Brooklyn-by-way-of-the Buckeye-State band (or who read their extensive New York Times Magazine profile back in 2010), the National is made up of five members, with two sets of brothers: guitarists Aaron and Bryce Dessner, along with drummer Bryan Devendorf and bassist Scott Devendorf. Singer, songwriter and resident supermoody dude Matt Berninger is the group's odd man out, musical sibling-wise. But he, too, has a brother: Tom Berninger, a sort of amiable, slightly doughier version of Matt that's nine...
As anyone who's been following the Brooklyn-by-way-of-the Buckeye-State band (or who read their extensive New York Times Magazine profile back in 2010), the National is made up of five members, with two sets of brothers: guitarists Aaron and Bryce Dessner, along with drummer Bryan Devendorf and bassist Scott Devendorf. Singer, songwriter and resident supermoody dude Matt Berninger is the group's odd man out, musical sibling-wise. But he, too, has a brother: Tom Berninger, a sort of amiable, slightly doughier version of Matt that's nine...
- 3/27/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Director: Tom Berninger; Starring: Tom Berninger, Matt Berninger, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Bryan Devendorf, Scott Devendorf; Running time: 75 mins; Certificate: Tbc
Tom Berninger, brother of The National frontman Matt Berninger, takes centre stage in Mistaken for Strangers, a film that manages to find a fresh angle on the well-worn rock documentary format. Tom is nine years younger than Matt and the black sheep of the Berninger clan. While Matt was slowly creeping to music fame fronting the critically-lauded indie group, Tom was back at home in Cincinnati making low budget horror movies and listening to metal. He is, in the nicest sense possible, a slacker in the mould of Seth Rogen or Jack Black.
Matt offers Tom a job as a roadie on their High Violet tour, and the younger sibling brings a camera along for the ride with a view to making a behind-the-scenes rock and roll picture. The...
Tom Berninger, brother of The National frontman Matt Berninger, takes centre stage in Mistaken for Strangers, a film that manages to find a fresh angle on the well-worn rock documentary format. Tom is nine years younger than Matt and the black sheep of the Berninger clan. While Matt was slowly creeping to music fame fronting the critically-lauded indie group, Tom was back at home in Cincinnati making low budget horror movies and listening to metal. He is, in the nicest sense possible, a slacker in the mould of Seth Rogen or Jack Black.
Matt offers Tom a job as a roadie on their High Violet tour, and the younger sibling brings a camera along for the ride with a view to making a behind-the-scenes rock and roll picture. The...
- 10/12/2013
- Digital Spy
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