As tipped here last week, The National has released the new song “Weird Goodbyes” featuring Bon Iver, which the band has already been playing live minus Justin Vernon during its summer world tour. “It’s about letting go of the past and moving on, then later being overwhelmed by second thoughts,” says frontman Matt Berninger of […]
Taylor Swift‘s latest new song is arriving at midnight (ET) tonight, according to the artist’s social media platforms. “Carolina” will play over the end credits of the upcoming movie Where the Crawdads Sing, which was produced by Reese Witherspoon and hits theaters on July 15. Like Swift’s most recent studio albums of original music, the […]
Big Red Machine has announced their second album How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last, releasing Aug. 27 via 37d03d. The folk-indie band is somewhat of a supergroup formed by Aaron Dessner of The National and Justin Vernon of Bon Iver. The new album was produced by Dessner himself at his Long Pond studio […]
Somehow. Somehow, as the most psychologically daunting year of our lives refuses to loosen its grip, Taylor Swift continues to create with abandon, relentlessly surprising a fan base that hangs on her every tweet and emoji. Somehow, the pop monolith has done it almost entirely in isolation, sharing heaps of digital files with her latest […]
Aaron Dessner’s making the most out of quarantine. The National multi-instrumentalist played a huge part in the making of Taylor Swift’s new (and pretty damn good) surprise-album folklore, with a co-writer or producer credit on 11 of its 16 songs. But that’s apparently not all he’s been up to. Dessner recently took to Instagram to tease […]
The National’s Aaron Dessner, who co-wrote and/or produced 11 of 16 tracks on Taylor Swift’s folklore, detailed the “magic” collaborative chemistry that helped spark her newly issued eighth LP. “It was a very surreal moment when she first contacted me, because we’d met before, twice in the past, mutual kind of admiration,” Dessner told Apple […]
The great fascination enveloping folklore, Taylor Swift’s mossy, surprise eighth LP, lies not within the album’s steadfast execution but the attempt itself — that during a global crisis which has paralyzed entire nations, a pop monolith would venture to swerve from her honey-soaked Lover’s lane and rumble deep into the forest, fixated on sonic reinvention. […]
She’s apparently back in the woods. Taylor Swift has announced that her eighth album, folklore, will drop at midnight EST, on Friday, July 24. The 16-track album includes contributions from the National’s Aaron Dessner (who was involved in 11 tracks, Swift said), Bon Iver, William Bowery and favored producer pal Jack Antonoff. “Tonight at midnight […]
As the protests have carried on throughout the weekend following the murder of George Floyd, one of the strangest developments has to do with the National guitarist Aaron Dessner. Some right-wing Twitter accounts have accused the guitarist/songwriter of helping incite and organize riots in Ohio, and have cited him as being Antifa (anti-fascist). On Sunday, […]