The National Released Their Album Today

Trouble Will Find Me

The National released Trouble Will Find Me today. When the band announced the album, they also announced a series of tour dates, including a night at Brooklyn's Barclays Center on June 5th. I'm kind of off going to arena shows, so I was hoping for something to pop up the way it did just before High Violet came out in 2010. That year, I was able to scoop up tickets for CoolMom and me to a pre-release show at the Bell House. To this day, that stands as one of the best concert experiences I've ever had.

I was excited today when the band announced, to celebrate release day, that they'd be playing a series of surprise shows around New York City -- a lunchtime set at Brooklyn's tiny Sycamore Bar & Flower Shop, a 5pm show at Public Assembly, and a 10pm show at Mercury Lounge. I readied myself to grab a Mercury Lounge ticket when they went on sale at noon. I think I made my ticket request at some time between 12:00:01 and 12:00:03. Alas, it was not to be. Whatever luck I had back in 2010 when I snagged those Bell House tickets just wasn't there today.

It looks like I won't be leaving my trivia team in the lurch again this week. I'll just have to settle for watching last night's Letterman performance and listening to Trouble Will Find Me, which I plan to review later this week.