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…
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…
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…
Since The National first performed "Rylan" way back in 2011, the song has become a fan-favorite—something you'd only hear at a live show, since the track…
Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon and the National multi-instrumentalist Aaron Dessner brought the latest incarnation of their PEOPLE Festival (now titled 37d03d) to Brooklyn's Pioneer…
Back in December, Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard, The National's Aaron Dessner, The Hold Steady's Crag Finn, Julien Baker, and Kevin Devine performed a…
The National weren’t always like this. Somewhere in the long comedown from High Violet, the brazen candor that had defined the band’s early albums was…
A number of indie rock mainstays gathered at the Rough Trade venue in Brooklyn last night to pay tribute to the life of Frightened Rabbit frontman Scott Hutchison,…