{"id":2447720,"date":"2019-08-19T10:34:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T16:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=873332"},"modified":"2019-08-19T10:34:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T16:34:28","slug":"the-national-prep-intimate-live-performance-film-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/the-national-prep-intimate-live-performance-film-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"The National Prep Intimate Live Performance Film, EP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The National<\/a> will release a new concert film and EP of their performance at New York\u2019s Beacon Theatre this past April. The National: I Am Easy To Find, Live From New York\u2019s Beacon Theatre<\/em> will air August 23rd via Amazon<\/a> Prime Video.<\/p>\n

The show took place April 22nd as part of the National\u2019s 5-date stand, \u201cA Special Evening With the National,\u201d where they performed their latest album I Am Easy to Find<\/em><\/a> and screened a short film of the same name<\/a> directed by Mike Mills. The show also featured guest performances by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, This is the Kit, Mina Tindle and Julien Baker<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlaying a song live for the first time is like pushing it out of a nest, and a lot of them just hit the ground,\u201d guitarist Aaron Dessner says in the trailer for the concert film, before the band launches into their passionate track \u201cRylan.\u201d \u201cWe all got really emotionally attached to the whole thing \u2014 the record and the tour and these shows. Here in New York, we knew this was probably the one chance we were going to have to actually play all the songs from I Am Easy to Find.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Five tracks from the performance will make up the EP The National: Live From New York\u2019s Beacon Theatre (Amazon Original), <\/em>also available on August 23rd. The EP will feature \u201cRylan,\u201d You Had Your Soul With You,\u201d \u201cI Am Easy To Find,\u201d \u201cWhere is Her Head\u201d and \u201cThe System Only Dreams In Total Darkness,\u201d the latter from their 2017 LP Sleep Well Beast<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Screenings of the live film will also be held in Brooklyn, Los Angeles and Seattle. The National are currently on a North American tour with the Canadian indie-pop outfit Alvvays. They\u2019ll hit Vancouver\u2019s Deer Lake Park on August 28th before they play several dates on the West Coast. The trek wraps up in Boston on October 24th before they head to Europe.<\/p>\n

August 20th Film Screenings:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The National Tour Dates<\/strong><\/p>\n

August 28 \u2013 Vancouver, BC @ Deer Lake Park
August 29 \u2013 Seattle, WA @ Marymoor Park
August 30 \u2013 Portland, OR @ Edgefield
September 1 \u2013 Stanford, CA @ Frost Amphitheater
September 2 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre
September 3 \u2013 Phoenix, AZ @ Comerica Theatre
September 5 \u2013 Ogden, UT @ Ogden Amphitheater
September 6 \u2013 Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom
September 7 \u2013 Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom
September 8 \u2013 Santa Fe, NM @ Santa Fe Opera House
September 10 \u2013 Austin, TX @ Austin360 Amphitheatre
September 11 \u2013 Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
October 16 \u2013 Mexico City, MX @ Pepsi Center
October 24 \u2013 Boston, MA @ Agganis Arena<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The National will release a new concert film and EP of their performance at New York\u2019s Beacon Theatre this past April. The National: I Am Easy To Find, Live From New York\u2019s Beacon Theatre will air August 23rd via Amazon Prime Video. The show took place April 22nd as part of the National\u2019s 5-date stand, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 10:59:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}