The National on overcoming writer's block for their ninth album, 'First Two Pages of Frankenstein,' and collabs with Taylor Swift and Phoebe Bridgers.

The National have readied their next album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein. The follow-up to 2019’s I Am Easy to Find is out April 28th via 4AD, and it comes with a lengthy run of 2023 tour dates.

In May, the National will bring First Two Pages of Frankenstein on the road as they embark on a 19-date North American tour. The trek will make stops in Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Detroit ...

As even he admits, every National album seems to put them on the precipice of extinction. Let’s do a brief review : Alligator was the “we need to get our act together or else” record.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to The National frontman Matt Berninger about the band's new album, "First Two Pages of Frankenstein," and about the band's embrace of "Sad Dad" moniker.

Ninth album ‘First Two Pages Of Frankenstein’ – named to reflect the blank and desolate wastelands that open Mary Shelley classic noir novel, one that helped Berninger work through his ...

YouTube Music is testing a new feature to help you easily discover similar albums. It could soon add a Recommended carousel to album pages, showing other albums by the same artist and similar ...

Earlier this week, The National dropped a surprise new album. It’s called Laugh Track, and it arrived just five months after their previous LP released in 2023, First Two Pages Of Frankenstein ...

The National’s ninth album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein, is consumed with keeping track: where things diverged, where things were lost, what has been accumulated since. The band is taking ...