Blog: Stereogum

The National did a full-on cover of "What Goes On" at New York Magazine 's 40th Anniversary Party this past Friday night. Maybe they were inspired by the various forms of " Caroline Says, Pt. II " and other Berlin: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse -related materials floating around these days, the fact that both Matt and Lou do a kind of literary sing-speak, or, perhaps the venue's Exploding Plastic Inevitable-core lighting. More pragmatically, they might've looked at the average age New York Magazine 's readership and realized this would go over better than a Be Your [...]