The National - Rome

The National - Rome"You have to see them in concert," is what fans of The National have been preaching for years. "The songs transform. It's a whole other level." Recorded live (without overdubs) in June 2024 at an architecturally stunning venue named for famed Italian film composer Ennio Morricone, Rome is the definitive live document of The National. The 21 track double album is truly career spanning, and showcases scintillating versions of beloved songs like

Nine curious tales of love

Over the decades

The memorable choruses

presenting his best selling single releases during that era including all his top 20 hits from both sides of the Atlantic and traces the development of his songwriting and musical mold along the way

Santiago's SUFFERING SIGHTS formed in 2017 and have been steadily building their sound across a successive stream of two demos and most recently an EP

unfiltered lyrics

Starring returning voice talents of Idina Menzel

and the legend of one of hip-hop's greatest beatsmiths

The summation of material presented on "Hell Is Here" is perhaps best interpreted as the rawest innards of Hide's vision for the self-governing ideology that's consistently present throughout their body of work

Befitting an album quite literally written on the commute between the two places he called home

Toxic Positivity is everything fans have come to know and love from The Used - straightforward

Songs become doorways to the past