The National to Curate a Music Festival for BAM: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
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Meet Bradley Hope, the Brooklyn Journo Who Found Chris Jeon
Bradley Hope, the young Cairo correspondent for Abu Dhabi's The National, had only been in Libya for a week when he found a career-making story: Chris Jeon, the 21 year-old UCLA student who had joined up the rebel fight in Libya on a solo vacation. Mr. Hope and his colleagues hired a driver and pushed Read More
Program: What We Love This Week (June 9 – June 14)
Fresh off last month's well-reviewed release of High Violet, formerly moody and mopey the National plays Radio City Music Hall on Wednesday the 16th. The Antlers, who have recorded a highly enjoyable album about cancer, will open (8 p.m., $39.50). As we do not have tickets to this concert, we will instead watch the Read More
The Times Streams the National–Or Maybe Not
The Times was set to stream the National's forthcoming album (High Violet) on its Web site, accompanying a long profile of the band that will run in this Sunday's Magazine. As Mashable points out, this seemed like a shrewd response to High Violet's recent leak--the band could control the album's distribution Read More
Hot Tickets: Echo & The Bunnymen, José González, Grizzly Bear, The National
After My Bloody Valentine’s killing at Roseland earlier this week, we’re not sure there’s much music worth seeing or that we’d even have the capacity to hear it after such a brutal sonic barrage. But no matter ... the show must go on, particularly when they are birthdays to be had.
It’s the Echo & Read More
Comic Giving Away Central Park Summerstage Tickets for Nice Facebook Comments
Tonight's The Nationals, Yeasayer and Plants and Animals show at Central Park's SummerStage is sold out. But wait! You can still get tickets if you sign on to Facebook! Gothamist reports that New York comic Mike Birbiglia (who has a Web site, MySpace, Flickr and Twitter blog) is promising to Read More
The National Goes … National! Giddy Guitarist Can’t Believe It
>> The National, Feb. 22-23, Brooklyn Academy of Music (sold out)
"No way! A 2,500 seat theater!" said The National’s Bryce Dessner, sounding more like one his band’s teenage fans than a well-traveled 34-year-old guitarist. He was calling from Ditmas Park—a few neighborhoods south of the Brooklyn Academy of Music where his brooding hometown band Read More
