The first co-headlining tour from the National and the War on Drugs is heading to North America. The two bands will head out on the road for the 2024 Zen Diagram tour starting in September. The Zen Diagram kicks off on Sept. 12 in Gilford, New Hampshire, and will wrap …
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The National superfan David Letterman got the chance to sit down with the band’s frontman Matt Berninger for a long conversation about music, songwriting, and their individual battles with depression. The conversation debuted Friday, and immediately got right to the heavy stuff. Berninger opened up about the deep phase of …
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David Letterman will make his long-awaited return to the Ed Sullivan Theater for the first time since he departed The Late Show in 2015 when appears as Stephen Colbert’s guest on Monday, Nov. 20. The current host of the Late Show announced the return of the former host earlier this …
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The National and Phoebe Bridgers are cracking up to stave off falling apart in the new animated music video for their recent collaboration, “Laugh Track.” The video was directed and animated by Bernard Derriman, who recently helmed The Bob’s Burgers Movie. In it, a couple sit down for a grave …
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Bruce Springsteen teams up with Bryce Dessner for the new track “Addicted to Romance,” the end credits song from the upcoming film She Came to Me that the National member scored. The E Street Band rocker wrote the track after watching the film, with Springsteen also providing vocals, piano, and …
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The National announced the impending release of a new album titled Laugh Track during the band’s opening night set at their Homecoming Festival in Cincinnati. Arriving just five months after the band’s 2023 LP First Two Pages of Frankenstein, Laugh Track will be released digitally on Sunday, singer Matt Berninger …
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The National have released two new songs, “Alphabet City” and “Space Invader.” The latter arrived with a moody visualizer directed by Noah Sacré and Pauline de Lassus, with animation and drawings by de Lassus. The melancholy, seven-minute track sees frontman Matt Berninger imagining alternate scenarios. “What if I stayed on …
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Taylor Swift performed her Evermore track “Coney Island” live for the first time Friday as The Eras Tour reached Atlanta. As Swift noted onstage at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Friday also marked the release date for the National’s new album First Two Pages of Frankenstein; the National features one of Swift’s go-to …
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With the arrival of their new album today, the National have finally released their eagerly-anticipated collaboration with Taylor Swift, “The Alcott.” The aching ballad is about a couple meeting and trying to reconnect; Berninger takes the lead, offering one side of that story, before Swift joins on the chorus and …
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Welcome to our weekly rundown ofthe best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week,Kesha has a spiritual awakening in her first release in three years, Jack Harlow returns, Labrinth catches the feels, and Taylor Swift gets moody with The National. Kesha, “Eat …
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