HUDSON, N.Y. — It wasn’t a civil war, not this time. But it was almost the end of the National. It wouldn’t have been a bad run. After all, the band wasn’t the most likely pick from the ...

Indie rock band The National has built its career on big sounds, and 2013 is shaping up to be the Brooklyn-by-way-of-Cincinnati brooders biggest year yet. For the better part of the past decade ...

The National is a band of five men, but on a May afternoon, they were 13 men and women. Onstage at the Ed Sullivan Theater in midtown Manhattan, they rehearsed for “The Late Show With Stephen ...

In other ways, though, The National are unique. They’ve never had a hit single – no Creep or Losing My Religion. Berninger, the face of the ensemble, is still essentially anonymous.