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The National

July 2024

  • Burna Boy plays the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury Festival.

    The Guardian picture essay
    Shangri-La, stetsons and SZA: Sunday at Glastonbury – a photo essay

  • SZA performs during the Glastonbury Festival.

    Glastonbury live: Sunday with SZA, Shania Twain, Burna Boy and more – as it happened

May 2024

  • Lorde … one of the album’s 16 vogueish musicians.

    Everyone’s Getting Involved review – tepid all-star Talking Heads tribute

    Cult film company A24’s tie-in merch to the seminal documentary Stop Making Sense sounds either like karaoke or is wildly disconnected from the source material

April 2024

  • Efficiency and wit … Taylor Swift.

    Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department review – fame, fans and former flames in the line of fire

    Subtly detailed album splits the difference between 1989’s glossy pop-rock and Midnights’ understatement – and lets her ex Matty Healy have it in no uncertain terms

March 2024

  • Pyramid schemes … Dua Lipa, Coldplay's Chris Martin and SZA.

    Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA to headline 2024 Glastonbury festival

    Coldplay become act to headline most times with their fifth top slot, while Shania Twain is booked for the Sunday teatime ‘legend’ set as the lineup is announced

February 2024

  • Eilm Chan conducts the Philharmonia during the UK premiere of Bryce Dessner’s concerto.

    Philharmonia/LPO review – brilliant new piano concertos by Dessner and Coll

    Bryce Dessner’s ebullient concerto, equal parts rock and Reich, was dazzlingly performed by Alice Sara Ott and the Philharmonia, while Francisco Coll’s glinting, flamenco-tinged piece had its world premiere with the LPO and Javier Perianes

October 2023

  • Laura Snapes

    Don’t play the hits! Rarities are one of the great joys of live music

    Laura Snapes
    From the National to U2 and Taylor Swift, artists are digging beyond their best-known songs to affirm the connection they share with their loyal fans

September 2023

  • A ‘dishevelled professor’ … Matt Berninger of The National at the First Direct Arena, Leeds.

    The National review – euphoric catharsis from an era-defining band

    Aided by a fanbase who joyfully sing every word, the Ohioans channel their full range of melancholy Americana and pulverising post-punk in a stunning two-and-a-half-hour epic
  • The National, press image 2023, to accompany launch of their new album Laugh Track.

    The National: Laugh Track review – second album of the year feels like a fresh start

    The existential conundrums of a cast of sad-sack characters – including a shattering Phoebe Bridgers collaboration – build up in dread and anxiety toward an intense, teeth-baring pay off
  • Sampa The Great, an extremely 80s Sydney Dance Company, Yaeji and Kate Mulvany’s Richard III

    From pop to classical to avant-garde: the 15 best Sydney Opera House shows to stream for free

    The venue is releasing 50 archival films across the next two months, to celebrate its 50th year. Our editors and critics have selected the top picks

June 2023

  • From left: Yaeji, Jessie Ware, Lil Yachty, Everything But the Girl, Lankum.

    Best culture of 2023 so far
    The best albums of 2023 so far

    From the unique sonic world of Yaeji to the dark folk music of Lankum, here are our picks of the best LPs from the first half of the year

May 2023

  • Aaron Dessner.

    On my radar
    On my radar: Aaron Dessner’s cultural highlights

  • ‘Sheeran is frequently mocked for writing in prosaic broad brushstrokes, but the lyrics here feel focused and painfully blunt.’

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Ed Sheeran: Subtract review – easily his best ever album

April 2023

  • The National

    The National: First Two Pages of Frankenstein review – still feeling blue

  • Ed Sheeran leaving New York Federal court as proceedings are suspended for the day in his copyright infringement trial, 26 April 2023.

    ‘He was so emotional’: the inside story of Ed Sheeran’s new album – and his US copyright trial

  • Matt Berninger in his garden

    The reader interview
    The National’s Matt Berninger: ‘I have a healthy marriage because I write about looking into the abyss’

  • One of indie music’s biggest live draws … Matt Berninger performing at All Points East festival in 2022.

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for Matt Berninger of the National

March 2023

  • Ed Sheeran on stage in Los Angeles in November.

    Ed Sheeran ‘didn’t want to live any more’ after deaths of friends Jamal Edwards and Shane Warne

    Singer tells Rolling Stone he sought therapy in wake of grief – and that as well as his forthcoming sixth album, he has two more records ready for release

August 2022

  • Matt Berninger of the National performing at All Points East

    The National review – dependable dose of broody euphoria and empathy

    The US rock band tease two new songs in an expertly paced set that serves casual and hardcore fans alike

June 2022

  • The National circa 2007.

    Ranked
    The National’s 20 best songs – ranked!

    As the beloved indie band debut new material and return to touring, we count down the best of their eight-album catalogue
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