The National

Featuring: Pavement, Neu!, Bowie, John Hughes, Lou Reed, Flaming Lips, Broadcast, and more.

The project also features Aaron and Bryce’s sister, Jessica Dessner, and her longtime friend, musician and composer Rebekka Karijord.

After getting off to a rocky start on Saturday, the inaugural edition of the Bridgeport, Connecticut festival seemed to go more smoothly on Sunday, and also featured The Head and The Heart, Spin Doctors, Jade Bird, and more.

This week’s Indie Basement album reviews: Beth Orton, Vieux Farka Touré, Neu!, The Soft Moon, Tim Burgess (The Charlatans), The Casual Dots, Lande Hekt, Pale Sketcher (Justin Broadrick) and more.

This week’s playlist includes new music by Arctic Monkeys, Mount Kimbie (ft. slowthai & Danny Brown), Special Interest, The Callous Daoboys, and more.

The National have taken NEU!’s ambient original and turned it into something more motorik and cinematic. ‘NEU! 50!‘ is out in September and also features remixes by IDLES, Mogwai and more.

This week’s playlist includes new music by Botch, Archers of Loaf, L.S. Dunes, The National (ft. Bon Iver), Pianos Become the Teeth, Pinkshift, and more.

”I somehow could hear our friend Justin’s voice and heart in this song from the beginning,” Aaron Dessner says. ”We sent it to him and it moved him – he then sang with Matt so powerfully.”

After opening for The National out West, Bartees has his own North American tour coming up this summer and fall.

The National also brought out Adia Victoria and Hannah Georgas for their guest-filled Newport Folk Festival set on Friday.