Matt Berninger: Intimate Trio Performance + Special Guests

About

Matt Berninger is the vocalist and lyricist for Grammy Award-winning band The

National. His songwriting has long garnered praise for its poignant clarity, jagged

edged wit and intimately emotive melodies. The band’s career spans ten studio

albums, including First Two Pages of Frankenstein and Laugh Track, both issued in

2023\. Late 2024 saw the release of The National’s first proper live album, Rome.

Together with his wife Carin Besser, Berninger produced the band’s

2013 feature-length documentary Mistaken for Strangers, directed by Matt’s brother

Tom. Outside of The National, Berninger formed EL VY with Brent Knopf

(Menomena) in 2014. The duo released their debut album Return to the Moon the

following year. Berninger’s “gorgeous” (Rolling Stone) solo debut, Serpentine Prison

came out in 2020, produced by the legendary Booker T. Jones. His second solo

effort, Get Sunk, is due to be released in May 2025.

Berninger is also a visual artist, and spent a decade as a creative director in New

York City. There’s a fluidity between his work as a painter/sculptor and

Lyricist/vocalist: he paints on white boards of song titles and lyrics while working in

The studio, and he created a massive canvas of a pink rabbit before he ever wrote

the National song of the same name. Berninger's latest medium is baseballs, on

Which he pens lyrics and poems across their white leather and red stitching.

Presented by Melting Vinyl.

This is an 18+ event