Watch The National perform two songs on Jimmy Fallon

Click to watch: “Sea of Love” and “I Need My Girl”

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The National have now performed a total of six new songs off “Trouble Will Find Me”

Via COS

The band debuted three songs in Berlin on Thursday: “Heavenfaced”, “Fireproof”, and “Graceless”.  Watch them below:

Heavenfaced:

 

Fireproof:

 

Graceless:

Here are the older songs, which will also appear on the band’s sixth album:

I Should Live in Salt:

 

Humiliation:

 

I Need My Girl:

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The National to play Brooklyn Arena in June, tickets onsale tomorrow (Fri 1/18)

On June 5th, The National will play at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, which can fit 17,000 people. Youth Lagoon will open.

You can grab tickets starting Friday, January 18th at 11:00 am local time at Ticketmaster.

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The National perform new songs at All Tomorrow’s Parties

“Lola”:

“Sullivan” (ft. Nico Muhly):

“Prime”:

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Phish’s lead singer Trey Anastasio joins The National on stage for “Bloodbuzz Ohio” and “Terrible Love”

the on stage collaboration happened at The Beacon Theatre during The National’s five day residency in NYC.

watch below:

“Bloodbuzz Ohio”:

“Terrible Love” (ft. Trey and Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond):

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Bon Iver joins The National for an acoustic “Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks”

this is impressive, but it felt more emotional a few nights ago, sans microphones, with the crowd singing along…

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Recap: The National at the Aragon, Chicago (Dec 6th, 2011)

The National played a perfect set last night. Specifically, they played “Geese of Beverly Road”, which might just be my all time fave National song. And “Baby We’ll Be Fine”. Seriously. Amazing. Watch Matt B crowd surf during “Terrible Love” below:

BONUS:
the last song of the set. the crowd sang along with the band and the openers, sans microphones. beautiful.

set list:

Runaway
Anyone’s Ghost
Mistaken For Strangers
Baby, We’ll Be Fine
Bloodbuzz Ohio
Squalor Victoria
Afraid Of Everyone
Conversation 16
Son
The Geese of Beverly Road
Sorrow
Abel
Murder Me Rachael
Green Gloves
England
Fake Empire
Encore:
About Today
Mr. November
Terrible Love
Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks

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The National bring “Bloodbuzz Ohio” to Other Voices

The Irish cultural festival featured this breathtaking performance of The National’s lead single from High Violet

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“The Long Count” to debut in London in February

The Dessner twins  have given more details about their multi-media side project: “The Long Count.”

The brothers collaborated with visual artist Matthew Ritchie to create a show is based on the 1976 World Series in Cincinnati (the year they were born). The project also draws inspiration from the first two books of Mayan myth Popol Vah.

The music will be performed by a twelve-piece orchestra,  accompanied by visuals from Ritchie, as well as text from The Dessners,  Matt Berninger and others. The project was originally commissioned for the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2009 Next Wave Festival. It will take place on February 2nd-4th at the Barbican in London.

Buy tickets HERE starting tomorrow

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watch: Matt Berninger drunkenly singing the ending to “Terrible Love” near a merch table

from a show on August 17, 2011 at the Archa Theatre in Prague:

surely you can derive some entertainment from that video. I know I did.

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