Matt Berninger Steps Out

Matt Berninger, frontman of The National, will release his first solo album, Serpentine Prison, on October 2nd.

Produced by Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Booker T. Jones of Booker T. & the MG’s, it features an array of guests that include Jones, Andrew Bird, longtime Willie Nelson harmonica player Mickey Raphael, David Bowie and Lenny Kravitz bassist Gail Ann Dorsey, National bassist Scott Devendorf and Berninger’s EL VY bandmates Brent Knopf and Matt Sheehy.