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  The National: Not Your Dad's Dad-Rock

  June 3, 2013 – When Matt Berninger landed in New York City in August of 1996, he moved into what he wryly describes as a "converted, semi-converted, mostly unconverted" loft space in Gowanus, an industrialized chunk of South Brooklyn that takes its name from the disease-ridden canal that divides the neighborhood. …
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  Download David Byrne and St. Vincent's Bonus-Stuffed 'Brass Tactics' EP

  May 28, 2013 – David Byrne and St. Vincent are planning another hefty slate of tour dates in support of their 2012 collaborative album, Love This Giant, and in advance of the upcoming trek, the visionary duo have shared a new EP that's available for download right now. …
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  The National's New Album to Feature St. Vincent, Sharon Van Etten, Sufjan, and Everyone Else

  March 22, 2013 – The National's new album Trouble Will Find Me will be jam-packed with guests, according to an interview with drummer Bryan Devendorf. In speaking to Gothamist, the Brookyln band's skinsman let slip that Sufjan Stevens, St. Vincent's Annie Clark, Arcade Fire's Richard Reed Parry, Sharon Van Etten, Doveman's Thomas Bartlett, and Dark Dark Dark singer Nona Marie Invie. …
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  Watch Cartoon St. Vincent Busk for 'Bob's Burgers'

  February 13, 2013 – St. Vincent, taking a break from her steady tour of late-night talk shows, gets animated in a new clip associated with FOX's cartoon sitcom Bob's Burgers. Vulture reports that the show, now in its third season, is launching a new musical series called "Bob's Buskers" that will feature several musicians covering songs from Bob's Burgers. …
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  Grammys 2013: Who Should Win the Categories You Actually Care About

  February 8, 2013 – The 55th Annual Grammy Awards are almost upon us! Hey, we'd love to help you with your office pools and living-room side bets with some sure-thing, Vegas-ready odds. However, we always seem to be dead wrong about this stuff (we'll get you yet, Esperanza Spalding). …
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  Watch David Byrne and St. Vincent Perform Meta 'I Should Watch TV' on TV

  January 29, 2013 – David Byrne and St. Vincent brought their frenzied, horn-punched "I Should Watch TV" (from last year's collaborative LP, Love This Giant) to late-night TV once again yesterday (January 28) for an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman. "The meaning and significance of doing that song on TV is making my head go funny," Byrne wrote in a newsletter to fans the day of the performance. …
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  Watch David Byrne and St. Vincent Play a Full, Sparkling Concert

  January 14, 2013 – In sheerly mercenary terms, market logic would dictate that every time David Byrne tours in a setup that's not just Talking Heads nostalgia, he's leaving money on the table. So you know his artistic communion with St. Vincent must be worth it, and the two certainly show why in this professionally shot 40-minute set posted by NPR. Backed by a horn section, Byrne and St. …
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  Watch St. Vincent and Alexis Krauss Join Cyndi Lauper's 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun'

  December 10, 2012 – Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" occupies a special place in the pop universe. When the working day is done, those who'd deny the song's defiantly frivolous allure have only themselves to blame for their bad time. But the song Lauper made famous in the '80s with a little help from MTV doesn't seem to get the retrospective critical regard that even the stuffiest of rock snobs has long since granted to, say, Madonna. …
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  David Byrne and St. Vincent Talk Sandy and Play Two Songs for 'Colbert'

  November 2, 2012 – Music aficionados who signed up for David Byrne and St. Vincent's mailing list recently received a remarkable dispatch from the front lines of New York City's ongoing recovery from Hurricane Sandy. "We're weathering the days in the dark city," Byrne wrote in a mass e-mail Halloween night. "At present I'm in Brooklyn, where toilets flush and lights burn bright. …
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  Green Day, Feist, St. Vincent Set for Final 'Twilight' Soundtrack

  October 5, 2012 – Though any supposed divide between literature and popular fiction has long since been exposed as arbitrary and pretentious, the Twilight movies continue to garner soundtrack rosters whose critical acclaim and collegiate appeal bely the books' perhaps undeserved guilty-pleasure image. Beck and Bat for Lashes, Bon Iver and St. …
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