Posts Tagged ‘The National’
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Video: The National – “Sea of Love”
Matt Berninger and Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National used a Reddit AMA on Wednesday night to premiere the video for “Sea of Love”, a powerful jaunt off their upcoming album Trouble Will Find Me, out May 20th o...
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The National, Jónsi Among Those on Oscar Shortlist
Names like The National, Jónsi, She & Him, and Flight of the Conchords‘ Bret McKenzie are some of dozens hoping to receive an Academy Award nomination for “Best Original Song”. The Academy Of Motion Pictur...
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Free Okkervil River EP
Okkervil River have given fans a Christmas gift a few weeks early. The Austin-based rockers released a free covers EP, Golden Opportunities 2, today. Download it here. The sequel to their 2007 covers collection of the same name...
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Setting Sunsettes
Sunsettes are a Tampa-based duo specializing in funk-tinged indie-rock. Comprised of Nathan Kozyra and Michael Schlein, Sunsettes quietly released their debut Coup de Grace last December. Their compositions are frequently led b...
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The Overcoat
Artists like Scott Walker, Tom Waits, and Nick Cave are often commended for their eccentric tendencies; their music is entirely one-of-a-kind, as thematically engrossing through narrative idiosyncrasies as their musical accompa...
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The Elliots
The Elliots evade traditional Swedish pop stereotyping, exchanging key-led twinkles and exuberant string-soaked choruses for moody ambience. The strings and keys remain, as seem the Swedish custom, but are presented with bleake...
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Bad Braids
Bad Braids is a very intimate project, clearly intended to showcase the beautiful talents of Megan Biscieglia. Her talents as a guitarist, vocalist, and lyricist are on full display throughout Arrow and Orb, a fascinating and i...
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Ben Talmi for Dreamers
Ben Talmi wants to fuck with your ears. He does not want you to know that his instrument collection is limited, or that his recordings rarely extend beyond his bedroom. In an age where popular music is bursting with superfluous...
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Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz (2010)
Abandoning his overly-tenacious "50 States Project", and going through some rather public digression away from the idea of an “album” or “song”, Sufjan Stevens has put together the monstrous, the epic, the grandiose The Age of ...
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Arcade Fire – The Suburbs (2010)
If Funeral was the personal homage to life, love, and loss, as Neon Bible was a straight shot at the gut of political immoral corruption, then Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs is merely a simple acknowledgment of the two concepts. Not...
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