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 ...

Charlie Puth brought his vocal range to the 2026 Super Bowl on Sunday as he sang the national anthem before the New England Patriots face off against the Seattle Seahawks at Levi's Stadium in Santa ...

The National’s Matt Berninger is fond of imposing metaphors. In “Bloodbuzz Ohio,” he was carried in a swarm of bees. Deeper into the song, the floors are falling for everybody he knows. The metaphors ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to The National frontman Matt Berninger about the band's new album, "First Two Pages of Frankenstein," and about the band's embrace of "Sad Dad" moniker. For years The ...