Tag Archives: The National

700 Acres and 30 Corporate Sponsors: Four Days at Bonnaroo

June 25, 2010 – 5:40 pm


Alex Traub navigates his way through the maze of bands and brands at this year’s festival.

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Ranting with Clogs’ Padma Newsome

April 5, 2010 – 2:07 pm

The Clogs by Tamara Bogolasky. Over a smorgasbord of hummus, white beans, and eggplant, Padma Newsome sits grizzly, inklings of grey woven through the reddish blonde of his beard, a product of “rock stress,” as he calls it. A stress that’s justified, after years of performing with children’s choirs in Adelaide, Australia; orchestras; and “indie rock bands” like The National. Newsome has now found a home in the group he formed, Clogs, a mix of classical and modern musical elements, wrapped up into what critics call “chamber folk.”

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Music for Two Pianos: Doveman & Peter Pears

March 30, 2010 – 11:19 am


Keyboard-to-keyboard and back-to-back, Thomas Bartlett and Nico Muhly shared an island of two piano benches swaying out compositions as one musician. They were surrounded by pools of lamp light on The Kitchen stage last week and accompanied by a host of collaborators from ACME strings, The National, to Sam Amidon. Read on for more and a video of the performance, after the jump.

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