Video: The National - What Goes On (Velvet Underground cover) (Manhattan, NYC, 10/10/08)

Always Loving the VU... Gladly, With Company! =*HM*

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 [...]

Enjoy Friday night's performance of 'What Goes On' below (clip via Sauw Space ). MP3: The National - Fake Empire