The National offers a collection of prolific musicians including frontman Matt Berninger, twin brothers and guitarists Aaron and Bryce Dessner, and brothers Scott and Bryan Devendorf on bass guitar ...

Once a cure for melancholy, the National now feel like a cause. Photo: Beggars Group Digital If there is a single regression that makes this unhappy triplet of records sound so uniformly dim and ...

I first heard The National's newest album, Laugh Track, on the day last month when my wife, Tina, and I finally set foot in our new house, thousands of miles from where we'd always lived. It was not ...

Picture going back ten years and telling someone the National and Taylor Swift would make a song together. Even as recently as the band’s last album, 2019’s guest-heavy I Am Easy to Find, the pairing ...

The indie-rock band The National has long served as a mascot for a certain type of guy: literary, self-effacing, mordantly cool. With cryptic lyrics and brooding instrumentation, the quintet of ...