The National’s Matt Berninger has confirmed that he is still working on a long-gestating sitcom with his director/actor brother, Tom Berninger. In an interview with NME, he spilled details about the semi-autobiographical series, including its working title: Dos Apes.
According to Berninger, he tabled the project while dealing with writer’s block and depression during lockdown, but now it’s back on. “Not unlike Frankenstein, a lightning bolt has started its heart again!” he said. “It’s called Dos Apes, and with the pandemic, we had to put it down. Dos Apes is alive, and that’s all I can say. There was nothing happening because of the writers strikes and stuff like that, but we’ll see. I’m not going to drown in projects like I was before, but that it is one of them that I really want to do and it might happen.”
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According to Berninger, he tabled the project while dealing with writer’s block and depression during lockdown, but now it’s back on. “Not unlike Frankenstein, a lightning bolt has started its heart again!” he said. “It’s called Dos Apes, and with the pandemic, we had to put it down. Dos Apes is alive, and that’s all I can say. There was nothing happening because of the writers strikes and stuff like that, but we’ll see. I’m not going to drown in projects like I was before, but that it is one of them that I really want to do and it might happen.”
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- 10/3/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
In preparing for his music supervisor work on Apple TV+’s “City on Fire,” Jonathan Leahy began with what all good pregames began circa 2003: He opened up his CD binders.
“I’m a bit of a hoarder of books and recorded media, and I’ve looked at those Case Logic binders many times,” Leahy told IndieWire. “They’re big, they’re heavy, they’re bulky — maybe it’s time to get rid of them? But I held onto them, and this project began with the fully analog, real-world version of the iPod shuffle. Perfect example of that was Ambulance Ltd, which was such a great never-quite-made-it artist of the era. That’s the very first licensed music you hear in the show, when the Charlie character heads into the record store.”
Set in a post-9/11 but pre-2003 blackout New York City, “City on Fire” is ingeniously updated from the...
“I’m a bit of a hoarder of books and recorded media, and I’ve looked at those Case Logic binders many times,” Leahy told IndieWire. “They’re big, they’re heavy, they’re bulky — maybe it’s time to get rid of them? But I held onto them, and this project began with the fully analog, real-world version of the iPod shuffle. Perfect example of that was Ambulance Ltd, which was such a great never-quite-made-it artist of the era. That’s the very first licensed music you hear in the show, when the Charlie character heads into the record store.”
Set in a post-9/11 but pre-2003 blackout New York City, “City on Fire” is ingeniously updated from the...
- 5/10/2023
- by Mark Peikert
- Indiewire
Sharon Van Etten has dug up a previously unreleased music video for her classic song, “Serpents,” off her 2012 album, Tramp, which will get a special anniversary reissue this year.
The video for “Serpents” was directed by Galazie 500’s Naomi Yang. It begins with Van Etten singing the song against a white brick wall, though the space is soon filled with an entrancing light display that adds a moody, slightly surreal tinge to the clip.
In a statement, Van Etten recalled why she chose not to release the “Serpents” clip back when it was made.
The video for “Serpents” was directed by Galazie 500’s Naomi Yang. It begins with Van Etten singing the song against a white brick wall, though the space is soon filled with an entrancing light display that adds a moody, slightly surreal tinge to the clip.
In a statement, Van Etten recalled why she chose not to release the “Serpents” clip back when it was made.
- 2/7/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The Hold Steady have released a new song, “Family Farm,” which will appear on their upcoming eighth studio album, Open Door Policy, out February 19th, 2021, via the band’s own Positive Jams label and Thirty Tigers.
“Family Farm” is classic Hold Steady, opening with a driving guitar riff and a flourish of Springsteenian piano and horns, before settling into stripped-back verses that give way to a booming chorus. “I was personally happy to get a mention of Van Halen’s ‘Eruption’ in the lyrics, and I appreciate it even more...
“Family Farm” is classic Hold Steady, opening with a driving guitar riff and a flourish of Springsteenian piano and horns, before settling into stripped-back verses that give way to a booming chorus. “I was personally happy to get a mention of Van Halen’s ‘Eruption’ in the lyrics, and I appreciate it even more...
- 12/1/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Muzz has released their version of Arthur Russell’s “Nobody Wants a Lonely Heart” for the band’s upcoming Covers EP, out December 9th via Matador.
The project consisting of Paul Banks, Josh Kaufman, and Matt Barrick take a straightforward approach to Russell’s solemn piano ballad. The similarities between Banks’ voice and Russell’s is uncanny, and it’s a fitting tribute to the beloved late New York musician.
Along with the Arthur Russell cover, Muzz’s Covers EP will also include Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You,” Bob Dylan...
The project consisting of Paul Banks, Josh Kaufman, and Matt Barrick take a straightforward approach to Russell’s solemn piano ballad. The similarities between Banks’ voice and Russell’s is uncanny, and it’s a fitting tribute to the beloved late New York musician.
Along with the Arthur Russell cover, Muzz’s Covers EP will also include Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You,” Bob Dylan...
- 12/1/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
“I’m near the bottom/Name the blues, I’ve got ‘em,” the National frontman Matt Berninger sings on the delicately despondent “Oh, Dearie,” from his debut solo LP. It’s a song about being completely asphyxiated by fear and doubt — certainly a message for our times. But don’t call the crisis hotline just yet. The music is more reassuringly cozy than last-ditch dire, with the singer pouring his enveloping, care-worn baritone over softly illuminating piano and a “Dust in the Wind” acoustic figure. The sound is par for...
- 10/17/2020
- by Jon Dolan
- Rollingstone.com
Muzz — a new band fronted by Interpol’s Paul Banks — have shared a soothing video for “Summer Love,” a track off their self-titled debut album, which arrived in June.
The clip boasts a clever mix of the serene and psychedelic that perfectly fits the airy folk swoon of “Summer Love.” The visual’s centered around footage drummer Matt Barrick shot of a deserted drive-through theater several years ago — a blank screen in an empty field — and it’s repurposed to show various clips shot by Banks, Barrick and multi-instrumentalist Josh Kaufman during the lockdown.
The clip boasts a clever mix of the serene and psychedelic that perfectly fits the airy folk swoon of “Summer Love.” The visual’s centered around footage drummer Matt Barrick shot of a deserted drive-through theater several years ago — a blank screen in an empty field — and it’s repurposed to show various clips shot by Banks, Barrick and multi-instrumentalist Josh Kaufman during the lockdown.
- 7/29/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Muzz, the new band fronted by Interpol’s Paul Banks, perform underneath a museum in the video for their new single “Knuckleduster.”
The song is brighter and more reminiscent of Banks’ alt-rock roots than Muzz’s prior singles, and the visual, shot in the basement of the American Treasure Tour Museum near Philadelphia, is a masterclass in how to dynamically film a rock band performance.
Starting off with some solid drum work by Matt Barrick (of the Walkmen, Jonathan Fire*Eater and Fleet Foxes’ touring band), the clip intercuts his...
The song is brighter and more reminiscent of Banks’ alt-rock roots than Muzz’s prior singles, and the visual, shot in the basement of the American Treasure Tour Museum near Philadelphia, is a masterclass in how to dynamically film a rock band performance.
Starting off with some solid drum work by Matt Barrick (of the Walkmen, Jonathan Fire*Eater and Fleet Foxes’ touring band), the clip intercuts his...
- 5/28/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Muzz, the new project from Interpol’s Paul Bank — Bonny Light Horseman’s Josh Kaufman and the Walkmen’s Matt Barrick — have shared a charming video for an acoustic version of their song “Bad Feeling.”
All three members of the band recorded their portions of the video at their respective homes while social-distancing. Barrick is set up in Philadelphia, tapping away on a drum, while Banks provides vocals and keys from Edinburgh, Scotland, and Kaufman plays the 12-string guitar in his Brooklyn apartment while his daughter putters around in the background.
All three members of the band recorded their portions of the video at their respective homes while social-distancing. Barrick is set up in Philadelphia, tapping away on a drum, while Banks provides vocals and keys from Edinburgh, Scotland, and Kaufman plays the 12-string guitar in his Brooklyn apartment while his daughter putters around in the background.
- 5/13/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The last time we spoke to Paul Banks, his band Interpol had put out its sixth album, Marauder, which was marked by “energy, songcraft, and unexpected warmth,” as Rolling Stone noted at the time.
Banks has taken those qualities to a new project, Muzz, a trio featuring Josh Kaufman (the producer and multi-instrumentalist in the folk group Bonny Light Horseman) and Matt Barrick (drummer of Jonathan Fire*Eater, the Walkmen, and Fleet Foxes’ touring band).
The band is out with two new songs: “Broken Tambourine,” a somber, meditative, organ-based ballad,...
Banks has taken those qualities to a new project, Muzz, a trio featuring Josh Kaufman (the producer and multi-instrumentalist in the folk group Bonny Light Horseman) and Matt Barrick (drummer of Jonathan Fire*Eater, the Walkmen, and Fleet Foxes’ touring band).
The band is out with two new songs: “Broken Tambourine,” a somber, meditative, organ-based ballad,...
- 3/24/2020
- by Patrick Doyle
- Rollingstone.com
The National’s Matt Berninger rides a bicycle to the beach in the video for “Holes.” Berninger covered the Mercury Rev track for the 7-inches for Planned Parenthood series, titled Vol.2-Pt.2.
Directed by Chris Sgroi, the clip shows Berninger recording the song as scenes of him on the bike flash by. He stands on a foggy beach, staring at the ocean. Originally released on Mercury Rev’s 1999 LP Deserter’s Songs, Berninger’s take is much more somber and delicate. “Holes, dug by little moles, angry jealous,” he sings over acoustic guitar.
Directed by Chris Sgroi, the clip shows Berninger recording the song as scenes of him on the bike flash by. He stands on a foggy beach, staring at the ocean. Originally released on Mercury Rev’s 1999 LP Deserter’s Songs, Berninger’s take is much more somber and delicate. “Holes, dug by little moles, angry jealous,” he sings over acoustic guitar.
- 2/28/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
The National’s Matt Berninger has released a video of his new song “Walking on a String,” featuring indie-rock phenom Phoebe Bridgers. The duo recorded the track for the new Zach Galifianakis film Between Two Ferns: The Movie, released last month on Netflix.
“It’s a song about how our problems and anxieties can build up and feel like a tangled inescapable web,” Berninger tells Rolling Stone. “Sometimes all it takes is a friend with some perspective and patience to help us see our way out of our own messes.
“It’s a song about how our problems and anxieties can build up and feel like a tangled inescapable web,” Berninger tells Rolling Stone. “Sometimes all it takes is a friend with some perspective and patience to help us see our way out of our own messes.
- 10/17/2019
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Stewart Lupton, singer of ‘90s rock band Jonathan Fire*Eater, died Sunday at the age of 43, a family member confirmed to Pitchfork. No official cause of death has been announced.
While relatively unknown these days, Jonathan Fire*Eater were arguably the first of the wave of rock bands that burst out of New York in the late 1990s and early ‘00s and helped pave the way for the Strokes, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, TV on the Radio and others.
Originally from Washington, D.C., the bandmembers moved to New York and released a self-titled Ep in 1995; an album and series of singles followed. At the time the New York rock scene — and alternative music in general — were in a recession from the grunge explosion of the early 1990s, and Jonathan Fire*Eater was one of the few signs of life in the late 1990s. A fierce bidding war ensued...
While relatively unknown these days, Jonathan Fire*Eater were arguably the first of the wave of rock bands that burst out of New York in the late 1990s and early ‘00s and helped pave the way for the Strokes, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, TV on the Radio and others.
Originally from Washington, D.C., the bandmembers moved to New York and released a self-titled Ep in 1995; an album and series of singles followed. At the time the New York rock scene — and alternative music in general — were in a recession from the grunge explosion of the early 1990s, and Jonathan Fire*Eater was one of the few signs of life in the late 1990s. A fierce bidding war ensued...
- 5/29/2018
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
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