Video: Bon Iver w/ Matt Berninger: "Big Red Machine" 5/3/09 @ Radio City

The internet was chattering big time yesterday after Cincinnati ex-pats The National made a big announcement. The guys have a new album and announced a handful of tour dates to go along with it. Since The National are one of our favorite bands of the past decade, we are pretty excited about the follow up to Boxer this May and wanted to not only let you know, but do a little speculating as well. We speculated last year about the new record, but now that the date has been [...]

by Andrew Frisicano DOWNLOAD: Aaron Dessner - We Were Born (from the Long Count) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Long Count - Bull Run (feat. Kelley Deal) (MP3) Twins! (the Dessners & the Deals) The Long Count kicks off its three show engagement at BAM's Gilman Opera House tonight (10/28). Tickets are still available for the show, as well as for the Friday (10/30) and [...]

Hey, it's a blog post relating to Dark Was The Night . Sunday night's live event around the indie-scene-portrait compilation was a certain success, and the National's final victory lap came last night with a performance of "So Far Around The Bend" for Jimmy Fallon with woodwinds, strings, and a Nico Muhly. We have video of that, but also and more intriguingly, we have NYC Taper -captured MP3s of the two new tunes performed at Radio City this past weekend: the first is the excellently overcast "England," which I had then mentioned [...]

• The National (Feat. Bon Iver) - "Vanderl... » The National (Feat Bon Iver) - Vanderlyl....mp3
• The National - "England" (Live) » The National - England (Live).mp3

Bon Iver performs "Flume" with The National and Shara Worden on 5/3/09 Did you happen to make it to New York City last week for the Dark Was the Night live concert at Radio City Music hall? No, I didn't either. But a few of our twitter friends were there, and "Flume" had everyone drooling. Below the [...]