The National frontman Matt Berninger appears on Bret Easton Ellis' podcast
28 January 2014, 10:25
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Luke Morgan Britton
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Following the inaugural Kanye West episode of Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast, the American Psycho author has now invited The National’s Matt Berninger onto his online radio show.
The episode sees Berninger discusssing numerous topics with the writer, including his band’s recent documentary Mistaken For Strangers. Easton Ellis also reveals that he got into The National when suffering a bout of depression during the summer of 2008, first discovering the group’s Boxer LP in this period.
You can listen to the episode in full here.
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