Florida A&M University’s long retired and acclaimed director of the “incomparable” Marching 100 Band Julian E. White is one of two conductors being inducted in the National Band Association’s (NBA) ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Elva Kaye Lance, Mississippi State’s director of bands, is the new vice president of the largest professional band organization worldwide. Elva Kaye Lance (Photo by Russ Houston) A ...

Grant emphasized that this is just the beginning for the Band of the Year competition. In July, ESPN Events unveiled the Band of the Year National Championship through a press release, introducing it ...

There’s no doubt that the National are a pre-eminent live band of our time—critics reliably leave their shows with glowing verdicts, declaring them “an era-defining band at the peak of their powers” ...

For years The National have captured the sound of Gen X and Millennial anxiousness. The Cincinnati band is known for raw and at times searing lyrics layered over rich, pensive melodies, a sound that ...

At the recent Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, the National Band Association presented the Lafayette Concert Band and Acadian Wind Symphony conductor Gerald Guilbeaux the Academy of Wind ...

The National, who’ll headline the Barclays Center in June, are the subject of a new tour documentary, Mistaken for Strangers, which will make its premiere at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival (April 17 – ...

For those of you who watched the College Football National Championship game, you may have noticed something slightly different about the game this year. For the first time in a long time, the ...

The Devendorf brothers have returned – though not with the National – to let the world know they still rip. Bassist Scott and drummer Bryan Devendorf have reformed LNZNDRF, a side project with ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to The National frontman Matt Berninger about the band's new album, "First Two Pages of Frankenstein," and about the band's embrace of "Sad Dad" moniker. For years The ...