The world in which the five members of The National –and, I suspect, at least 90% of AD readers–live and move and gesture towards being is a wide, wide space with very low ceilings. It is a […]
Category: The National
Decade :: The National, Alligator (2005)
Decade :: The National, Boxer (2007)
What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of a new decade, we’re in […]
The National :: Pretty In Pink (RIP John Hughes)
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Matt Berninger (The National) :: The AD Interview
I took the bus to work today because my car broke down, and I found myself in downtown Los Angeles, hemmed in on all sides by skyscrapers, alone with my bag and the headphones that […]
The National :: The Black Sessions (Paris, 2005)
This is a re-post per multiple requests following the 2007 White Session posted a couple of weeks ago. The following should be required listening for National fans; its material taken from the Cherry Tree EP […]
The National :: White Sessions (Paris, 2007)
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The National :: Los Angeles, Wiltern, 9.28
Heads up. One pair of tickets to give away to The National show, this Friday, at The Wiltern . If you have yet to win anything (recently) from A.D.; shoot an email to aquariumdrunkard @ gmail dot dom. St. Vincent opens… […]
The National :: The Black Sessions (Paris, 2005)
I originally found these tracks on Muzzle of Bees in 2005, listened to them incessantly, and then promptly misplaced them…until now. Consider the following required listening for National fans with material taken from the Cherry […]
Showered And Blue Blazered…..
The National craft mood music. In the span of four albums and an EP they have created a niche of elegant and dark atmospheric rock bolstered by vocalists Matt Berninger’s languid baritone and everyman poetics. […]