Tag Archives: The National

Friday on My Mind: Musical Twins!

By John Richards | Published: June 8, 2012

It’s time again for Friday on My Mind, the weekly collaboration between KEXP and King 5 News where we take a look at videos centered around one subject. Today we’re talking about Musical Twins. During the first half of June, all babies born at this time are in the sign of Gemini. Some of theRead more...

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Video Roundup: Lucky Thirteen!

By Jim Beckmann | Published: January 13, 2012

Today’s your lucky day! Although Friday the 13th is known to be a day of unfortunate accidents, faux pas, and all around unhappy occurrences that we chalk up to “bad luck,” as any gambler knows, luck can turn on a dime. Gathered here in this video roundup are songs that we hope will change yourRead more...

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Live Around Town This Week

By Jason Kinnard | Published: November 28, 2011

Did everyone survive Thanksgiving and Black Friday shopping last week? We certainly hope so because there’s plenty to do this week as we head into even more holidays in the busy December holiday schedule. We appropriately kick off Cyber Monday at Chop Suey with a fantastic electronic duo you need to check out: Africa Hitech. OnRead more...

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Weird At My School: 4AD 4VR

By DJ El Toro | Published: June 8, 2011

Tonight I’m thrilled to be hosting in-studio performances by two influential artists: At 9 PM we’ll be broadcasting a session with Robin Guthrie (formerly of Cocteau Twins), followed by another from Brendan Perry (formerly of Dead Can Dance) at 11 PM. And since both those men got their start recording for the iconic independent labelRead more...

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Sonic Roundup 4/27

By Nick Heinlein | Published: April 27, 2011

Indie rockers Telekinesis are touring in support of their most recent release, 12 Desperate Straight Lines. They took a break recently to stop by The AV Club and perform a cover of Belle & Sebastian‘s “Like Dylan in the Movies.” Watch:

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Sonic Roundup 4/21

By Nick Heinlein | Published: April 21, 2011

Fleet Foxes have been pretty busy surrounding the imminent release of their anticipated sophomore album Helplessness Blues, but if you’re not too burnt out on related news, video has just been posted of a 17 year old Robin Pecknold covering Radiohead‘s “Let Down” with Aaron Mannino. Watch:

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The National Curating Grateful Dead Covers Album

By Nick Heinlein | Published: April 19, 2011

The National are no strangers to compilation albums -- members Bryce and Aaron Dessner curated 2009′s Dark Was The Night, a benefit record for AIDS charity Red Hot that featured contributions from indie all-stars all over the map, including David Byrne, Arcade Fire, Spoon, Yo La Tengo, Andrew Bird, The New Pornographers, The Decemberists, IronRead more...

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Thanksgiving Thursday News Roundup

By Jason Kinnard | Published: November 25, 2010

Listen to the new song from The National : “Wake Up Your Saints” from their recently released Expanded Edition of High Violet. Just in time for the Holidays! Listen at Consequence of Sound.

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Live Around Town This Week

By Ryan Bort | Published: September 7, 2010

Wednesday, September 8th THE WALKMEN with The Helio Sequence @ the Showbox at the Market When a band has been together and touring as long as The Walkmen have (since they were teens), it almost always means they’re amazing live. When being in sync, knowing what the other band members are going to do, andRead more...

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Thursday News Conglomeration

By Dusty Henry | Published: August 19, 2010

Following up their recent reunion show as Nudedragons at the Showbox and now their performance this month at Lollapalooza, Soundgarden are set to release Telephantasm: A Retrospective on September 28, and yesterday they revealed their first new single since 1997: “Black Rain,” an outtake from the Badmotorfinger sessions. Rumors are that they’re in the studioRead more...

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