Post Tagged with: "The National"
Download: The National & Bon Iver – Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks Live for Q
Performing a live session for Canadian radio station Q, Justin Vernon adds delicate harmonies to a stripped-back take on High Violet’s Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks.
Listen: The National – Exile Vilify
The National give us yet more ‘extras’ with Exile Vilify – a soft, sweeping ballad with a twirling piano motif. Strings are very much in.
Listen: The National – Think You Can Wait
The National are joined by Sharon Van Etten for a slow-burning ballad straight from the top drawer. Greatness beckons.
Top 10 of 2010 – No. 3
The National’s star continues its slow rise with another album of breathtaking quality. Their most direct record to date also gives us an intriguing glimpse into where they could go next.
Download: The National on BBC Radio 1
On Wednesday night personal faves of ours The National performed an exclusive set for Zane Lowe at the BBC’s Maida Vale studios. As well as playing some songs the band chat about their live show, Glastonbury and ‘sour’ notes. The band played through a number of tracks, including High Violet highlights Bloodbuzz Ohio and Terrible [...]
Download: The National – Terrible Love (Alternate Version)
Anyone who watched The National’s booming run-through of Terrible Love on the Jimmy Fallon show back in March – a few months prior to High Violet’s release – may have been forgiven for being ever-so dissapointed with the muddy, tightly packed production of the studio version. Well that minor gripe has now been put to [...]
The National @ 89.3 The Current
The National, currently ploughing through their current US tour, stopped by at Minnesota’s 89.3 The Current for a short interview and a gorgeous four-song set consisting of three tracks from High Violet, as well as a newie You Were a Kindness, which was left off the critically acclaimed LP. The song is a piano-lead ballad, or at least [...]
The National @ The BBC Mp3′s
It’s taken a while but here are two fantastic acoustic cuts from when our favourites The National stopped by BBC 6music’s studio’s around the release of High Violet. Both are available to download below, and they are very special indeed. Enjoy. The National – Terrible Love acoustic (right click) The National – Anyone’s Ghost acoustic [...]
Latitude 2010 (part 1)
With the ever increasing popularity and – some may say – oversaturation of the summer festival circuit, it’s expanding family tree is becoming rather complicated. If Glastonbury is the mother of all festivals and Reading the daddy, T In The Park the mad, drunk uncle and Download the wizard-like granddad, then Latitude Festival – with [...]
The National – Afraid of Everyone MP3
As promised, i’m keeping you right up-to-date with The National’s upcoming record High Violet. So far we’ve covered Bloodbuzz Ohio, Terrible Love and Runaway and now, for your aural pleasure here is Afraid of Everyone, which will be track five on the album. On first listen it’s a brooding, building number with a (whisper it) [...]
The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio MP3
I love the excitement of a new record getting prepped for release. When the new record is by a band called The National, that love is amplified quite a number of times. Earlier today the lovely Lauren Laverne at BBC 6 Music gave us the first play of the quintet’s new single, Bloodbuzz Ohio. It [...]
