The National have continued their relationship with “Bob’s Burgers” by covering another one of their songs, “Give It to Teddy,” as Stereogum points out. The Thanksgiving tune was in a recent episode of the show, which became a mournful ballad in their hands. Hear it below.
The critically-acclaimed Fox TV show, “Bob’s Burgers,” which has previously teamed up with artists including the National and Sleater-Kinney, is releasing an album through Sub Pop. The Bob’s Burgers Music Album, which is set to be out on May 12th will feature 112 short songs from the regular cast members like Kristen Schaal, H. Jon Benjamin, and John Roberts. Featured guests include Sarah Silverman, Aziz Ansari, Bill Hader, Paul Rudd, Fred Armisen, and Zach Galifianakis. The release will also include the Bob’s Buskers series where St. Vincent, the National, Stephin Merritt, and more covered Bob’s Burgers songs. Check out the full tracklist here.
Watch the National and Låpsley’s cover of “Bad Stuff Happens in the Bathroom” below as well as cast’s performance of the track, the theme song and an unboxing video:
Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and the National’s Aaron Dessner have announced the lineup for their third Eaux Claires Music & Arts Festival, which is to take place June 16-17th in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, as Stereogum reports. Chance the Rapper, Wilco, along with Jeff Tweedy’s side project Tweedy, Feist, Paul Simon with yMusic, Danny Brown, Perfume Genius, and more are set to play. Additional performances listed include “Bon Iver Presents John Prine and the American Songbook,” and “Big Red Machine,” a collaborative performance from Vernon and Desnner with guests, based on their song of the same name from the compilation Dark Was the Night.
Even though the lineup has not yet been officially announced, booklets featuring the lineup were mailed to people who had ordered tickets already. Check out an image/tweet below.
The National performed a new song, “Prom Song 13th Century (Frankie & Johnny),” at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles last night. They brought out St. Vincent, who sand with Matt Berninger while looking at a lyric sheet on the floor. They joined hands for a dance and twirl at the end. “I realized I don’t know how to spin somebody,” Berninger said. Watch it happen below.
In 2009, the National and St. Vincent worked together to cover Crooked Fingers’ “Sleep All Summer.”
Free Press Summer Fest have announced its 2016 lineup. The two-day music festival will take place June 4th – 5th at Eleanor Tinsley Park in Houston, Texas.
The lineup features The National, Modest Mouse, Refused, Jamie xx, Mac DeMarco, Built to Spill, Big Grams (Big Boi and Phantogram), ASAP Ferg, Against Me!, Thee Oh Sees, and The Black Angels
Also playing are deadmau5, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Leon Bridges, Young the Giant, Big Giantic, Gogol Bordello, Matt and Kim, Violent Femmes, Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls, San Fermin, Matthew Logan Vasquez, Chicano Batman, White Denim, BØRNS, and more.
Single-day and two-day tickets are on sale now.
The National have been busy with the work on the follow-up to Trouble Will Find Me from 2o13. Last night, fans were given what could be the first taste of their new album, debuting a new song named “Roman Candle” at a benefit concert in Los Angeles. Watch footage of the performance below.
Frontman Matt Berninger announced in August that the band already has sketches for 3o new songs, with plans to meet in the studio while in Los Angeles.
Last night’s benefit concert was in benefit of the nonprofit Cooperative for Education which was co-founded by frontman Matt Berninger’s cousins, Joe and Jeff Berninger. The are hoping their new campaign, Thousand Girls Initiative, will help improve education for girls in Guatemala.
1. Pretty Pimpin’ – Kurt Vile
2. French Exit – The Antlers
3. Slow Motion – PHOX
4. Demons – The National
5. Dojo Rising – Cloud Control
6. Comrade – Volcano Choir
7. 1000 Black Birds – Tyler Ramsey
8. Street Joy – White Denim
9. One Million Lovers – The Growlers
10. Twenty Miles – Deer Tick
11. Hot Blur – How Sad
12. Be Brave – The Strange Boys
13. West Coast- FIDLAR
14. Times Square – Destroyer
15. Blame It On The Tetons – Modest Mouse
16. Fal Creek Boys Choir – James Blake
17. Aquariam – Nosaj Thing
18. A New Error – Moderat
19. Morning Side – Four Tet
2o. The Broads – Minotaur Shock
With the announcement of Matt Berninger’s new collaboration, EL VY, as well as the multiple producing projects from the Dessner brothers have constantly been working on, it might feel like a new National album is in the far distance. However, this is not true according to Berninger.
In a recent interview with NME, the National frontman has revealed that the band has already begun writing their seventh studio album. Berninger said on the progress so far: “We did a camp out retreat in New York a couple of months ago, and we’re having another one in LA in a few weeks. We have 30 sketches of songs so far.”
He also added that the band is using names of different towns in upstate New York as working titles for the songs.
The National’s previous album was Trouble Will Find Me in 2013.
Matt Berninger from the National and Menomena/Ramona Falls’ Brent Knopf have joined forces for a LP under EL VY. According to a press release, the name is “pronounced like a plural of Elvis; rhymes with ‘hell pie.'” The debut record, Return to the Moon, is set to come out on October 30th through 4AD. Watch the lyric video for the title track here. The album cover is above and the tracklisting is below.
Berninger and Knopf will tour under EL VY later this year.
The men discussed working together in a press release. “I never worried about sending Matt something unfinished,” Knopf said. “He’s able to imagine where it can go. He can grab the four bars that will become the core of the track and develop them into something amazing.”
“This record is more autobiographical than anything else I’ve written, but the details aren’t true,” said Berninger. “It’s written in the voices of a few invented characters, composites of different people—myself, my wife, and other people I was thinking about.”
Return to the Moon tracklist:
01 Return to the Moon (Political Song for Didi Bloome to Sing, With Crescendo)
02 I’m the Man to Be
03 Paul Is Alive
04 Need A Friend
05 Silent Ivy Hotel
06 No Time to Crank the Sun
07 It’s a Game
08 Sleepin’ Light (ft. Ural Thomas)
09 Sad Case
10 Happiness, Missouri
11 Careless
EL VY tour dates:
11-02-03 Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
11-04 Seattle, WA – Neumos
11-06 San Francisco, CA – The Independent
11-07 Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour
11-10 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
11-11 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
11-13 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
11-14 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
11-15 Boston, MA – The Sinclair
11-16 Montreal, Québec – Theatre Fairmount
11-17 Toronto, Ontario – Opera House
11-19 Chicago, IL – Metro
11-20 Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall Ballroom
11-21 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
12-01 Copenhagen, Denmark – Pumpehuse
12-02 Hamburg, Germany – Knust
12-03 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Melkweg
12-04 Cologne, Germany – Kantine
12-06 Berlin, Germany – Astra
12-07 Brussels, Belgium – AB
12-08 Paris, France – Trabendo
12-10 London, England – Electric Ballroom
12-12 Manchester, England – Gorilla
12-13 Dublin, Ireland – Whelans
The first Eaux Claires Music Festival, which is curated by Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, is happening this weekend in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The National were Friday’s headliners but they were not performing alone.
Vernon and Sufjan Stevens appeared during The National’s set. Stevens joined the band during “Afraid of Everyone,” “Squalor Victoria,” and “I Need My Girl,” while Vernon performed on “Slow Show” and “Terrible Love.” Both men appeared on stage during the finale performance of “Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks.”
Watch Stevens’ performance of “Afraid of Everyone” here.
Setlist:
Don’t Swallow the Cap
I Should Live in Salt
Bloodbuzz Ohio
Sea of Love
Hard to Find
Afraid of Everyone (w/ Sufjan Stevens)
Squalor Victoria (w/ Sufjan Stevens)
I Need My Girl (w/ Sufjan Stevens)
This Is the Last Time
Peggy-O (Grateful Dead cover)
Abel
Sorrow (w/ Ragnar Kjartansson)
Slow Show (w/ Justin Vernon)
Apartment Story
Pink Rabbits
England
Graceless
Fake Empire
About Today
Encore:
Mr. November
Terrible Love (w/ Justin Vernon)
Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks (w/ Justin Vernon, Sufjan Stevens)
The Melodic Tree 