"Brackett, WI" from the compilation Dark Was the Night 2009 Some of the biggest names in independent music have banded together to record exclusive songs for Dark Was the Night , a double-disc album whose proceeds will benefit the Red Hot organization's work with AIDS research. In the works since 2006, the project is due February 17 from Beggars Banquet and as curated by The National's Aaron and Bryce Dessner. The lineup includes Spoon, Fire">Arcade Fire, Yo La Tengo, the New Pornographers, Bon Iver, Feist, Cat Power, My Morning Jacket, and Iron & Wine, among many others. "I've been listening to some of these bands since I was in high school. Now they're peers of ours but sometimes you can't even believe that — these are people I've idolized and respected," Aaron Dessner tells Billboard.com. The National contributed the song "So Far Around the Bend," which Dessner says the band "didn't feel would make sense" on one of its own albums. "It has this pretty crazy orchestral arrangement; it's a little bit of ...
Jonk Music
19 January 2009