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The National frontman Matt Berninger appeared on The Tonight Show to showcase his solo track “Bonnet of Pins.” The singer performed the layered indie rock tune alongside a live band, occasionally sharing vocals with his keyboardist.

“Bonnet of Pins” comes off Berninger’s recent LP, Get Sunk, which arrived in May. The album marks his second solo effort, following the musician’s 2020 solo debut, Serpentine Prison. It about after, as Berninger said in a statement, “a long period of writer’s block and self-disgust,” during which he got fed-up asking himself,...

The National’s Matt Berninger is back with a new song, “Bonnet of Pins,” that will appear on his second solo album, Get Sunk, out May 30 via Book/Concord Records.

“Bonnet of Pins” is a bit of stadium-sized indie rock with driving drums and live-wire guitars that steadily build with a burst of horns and choral backing vocals. On the chorus, Berninger bellows in his singular baritone, “She finishes of my drink and/Puts on a bonnet of pins and/Says ‘I thought I’d find you much quicker than...

The National’s Matt Berninger has just announced his second solo album: Get Sunk is out May 30th via Book/Concord Records. Today, he’s released the lead single, “Bonnet of Pins,” which you can listen to below. Additionally, Berninger has announced a spring/summer tour, featuring dates in North America before heading to the United Kingdom and Europe.

Get Sunk marks Berninger’s first solo album since 2020’s Serpentine Prison. The record was mostly recorded and co-written with producer/engineer Sean O’Brien, who previously collaborated with the National on their 2023 album Laugh Track. Several other musicians joined Berninger in the studio, including Meg Duffy of Hand Habits, Julia Laws of Ronboy, Kyle Resnick of Beirut and The National’s touring band, and many more. Memphis legend Booker T Jones also joined in on recording, with whom Berninger worked with on Serpentine Prison.

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Beirut is back with “The Tern,” a new look at his upcoming album Hadsel. Listen to the track below.

Thanks to a buzzing synth line and Zach Condon’s operatic vocals, “The Tern” feels like a new age hymn of sorts. The artist explained how he wrote the song in a statement, from its electronic instrumental to its “It’s not so easy” refrain.

“The base of this song comes from an old Roland synthesizer and drum machine part which I had lying around from a previous Berlin session,” Condon shared. “The lyrics I improvised on the spot and finished the song off by adding layers of church organs and hand percussion. I stacked the parts high despite always being afraid of overdoing it. In the end I was confused how I had written such a seemingly positive and even hopeful song, but once I took a closer look at the lyrics,...

Bruce Springsteen has penned an original song for Rebecca Miller’s new film “She Came to Me,” which will have its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival this week.

The song, “Addicted to Romance,” was written and performed by Springsteen, and will be heard by audiences for the first time during the movie’s Feb. 16 screening, when it plays over the end credits.

Romantic comedy “She Came to Me” stars Peter Dinklage as a moody classical composer struggling with writer’s block. When he meets a quirky tugboat captain (Marisa Tomei), he finds the muse for his next opus and is encouraged by his therapist wife (Anne Hathaway) to make his big comeback. But just as his career looks to take off, his personal life implodes.

Discussing how she came to work with Springsteen, Miller explained that she previously had The Boss’s “Dancing in the Dark” as part...

The National paid tribute to late musician Daniel Johnston at a show at the White Oak Music Hall in Houston, Texas by performing a mash-up of their own “I Am Not in Kansas” with his classic tune “Devil Town.” The musicians took the opportunity to honor the singer, who died of a heart attack at age 58, in a clearly emotional way. The two songs included back-up vocals from Kate Stables, Hannah Georgas and Kyle Resnick.

“That was for Daniel Johnston, who left us,” The National frontman Matt Berninger told the audience after the song,...