I have so much love for Matt Berninger and his band. The National are originally from Cincinnati, but moved to Brooklyn to set up shop as a rock band. Way to take the frustrations that Ohio poses to free thinkers and turn it into beautiful music.Brooding, heartfelt songs abound on all of their records and they are great live. Tonight @ The Wiltern if you are in the Los Angeles area...gonna be a...
So I was kind of pissed that we had to leave during the encore because of the last train (and thus in all likelihood missing what I find to be their best song in "About Today"), and that feeling was both worsened and soothed by the overall quality of the gig, which was absolutely amazing.What adds to that is that the band plays with feeling, and especially that Matt Berninger sings it with so m...