In the coming months, the shifting seasons will yield warmer temperatures, which will in turn signal the arrival of a most joyous time of year for all music lovers: festival season. This coming Spring, it seems like Atlanta, GA will the place to be, as it will play host to the second annual Shaky Knees […]
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Shaky Knees Music Festival Will Feature The National, Modest Mouse, and More
February 6th, 2014 
Kyle Florence 
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Sasquatch! Music Festival Announces Lineups for Both Weekends
February 4th, 2014 Kevin Blumeyer With last year’s festival selling out in just 90 minutes, demand for the Sasquatch! Music Festival called for an expansion into a second weekend. But unlike Coachella or Austin City Limits, the two weekends of Sasquatch! feature completely different lineups, both of which were announced last night. The Memorial Day weekend (May 23-25) lineup features […]
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The National Perform “Don’t Swallow The Cap” On ‘CBS This Morning’
January 26th, 2014 Brian Leak In promotion of their new record Trouble Will Find Me, The National took to the Saturday Sessions stage of CBS This Morning to perform “Don’t Swallow The Cap.” You can stream the performance after the jump, courtesy of CBS. The National have been nominated in the Best Alternative Music Album category for the 56th Annual […]
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The National Announce Spring North American Tour
January 21st, 2014 Kyle Florence Earlier today, The National announced that they will be hitting the road this spring in support of their globally successful album, Trouble Will Find Me, which dropped last May via 4AD Records. You can view a full listing of dates at the bottom of this post, after the break. These new additions to the group’s […]
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Leanne Cushing’s ‘Best of 2013’ In Music
January 1st, 2014 Leanne Cushing My friends, UTG colleagues and I are all driven and inspired by music in some way or another. It is the art form that we connect with the most; it is the way we communicate our aspirations to the outside world and helps connect us to people with similar loves, dreams and ambitions.
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December 17th, 2013 Nina Corcoran Christmas is in a week, and Stephen Colbert is more than ready to get the countdown ticking. Yep, it’s Colbert’s Christmas Carols Week, and he night number one of cheery musical guests happened last night as he invited The National to the stage for the second time this year. As a treat from Santa, special […]
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Rebecca Docter’s ‘Best of 2013’ In Music
December 13th, 2013 Rebecca Docter 2013 delivered a sea of great albums, but five stood out above the rest. Check out what albums made my cut! 5. Moving Mountains – Moving Mountains Very seldom do I find an album that I can listen to all the way through without skipping or shuffling tracks, so when I listed to Moving Mountains’ self-titled, […]
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Drew Caruso’s ‘Best of 2013’ In Music
December 10th, 2013 Drew Caruso As the year ends, I find myself shuffling through the albums I have accrued over the past months. Each album an experience, an insight gained, a lens changed, I have continually found myself lost in the art that encapsulated the sonic apotheosis of this past year. The experiences captured within these sounds provide themselves as […]
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An Evening with ‘Mistaken For Strangers’ And Director Tom Berninger
December 9th, 2013 Drew Caruso On a foggy Boston evening, I had the pleasure to attend a screening and Q&A session with Tom Berninger, director of the documentary Mistaken For Strangers, which follows Tom on tour with his brother Matt’s band, The National. Viewed through the UMass Boston Film Series, I was pleasured by an evening with good conversation and […]
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November 7th, 2013 Rebecca Docter In an interview with NME, The National’s Aaron Dessner stated that the follow-up to the band’s latest release, Trouble Will Find Me, will be “raw” and “simple.” Describing Trouble Will Find Me as extremely detailed, Dessner explained that he would like the band’s next work to be very simple and under produced. “We’re actually thinking for the next […]
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November 7th, 2013 Troy Sennett The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is set to be one of the biggest movie releases this winter, and it has a soundtrack to match. While The National may not be the most recognizable name on a tracklist that also includes Coldplay, Lorde, and Imagine Dragons, they are certainly one of the most exciting additions to […]
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UTG at AFI: 10 Films You Need to See at AFI Docs Film Festival
June 18th, 2013 Tyler Osborne AFI Docs, the East Coast’s premiere documentary film festival starts tomorrow in Washington, DC, and here at UTG we’re excited to cover it and give you the scoop on what will be some of the best documentaries that 2013 has to offer. With a few world premieres and exclusive screenings, we’ve collected a list of […]
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