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Part of the Anti-Trump "30 Days, 30 Songs" Project
Oct 17, 2016
By Christopher Roberts
EL VY (the project of The National’s frontman Matt Berninger and former Menomena member Brent Knopf, who also records as Ramona Falls) released their excellent debut album, Return to the Moon, last October via 4AD. More
Return to the Moon Out Now via 4AD
Aug 09, 2016
By Christopher Roberts
EL VY (the project of The National’s frontman Matt Berninger and former Menomena member Brent Knopf, who also records as Ramona Falls) released their excellent debut album, Return to the Moon, last October via 4AD. They have been releasing amusing black & white videos for all of the songs on the album and now here’s the final one, for “Careless.” More
Return to the Moon Out Now via 4AD
Mar 11, 2016
By Christopher Roberts
EL VY (the project of The National’s frontman Matt Berninger and former Menomena member Brent Knopf, who also records as Ramona Falls) released their excellent debut album, Return to the Moon, last October via 4AD. They have already shared several videos for the album and now they have just put out two more, for “Sad Case/Happiness, Missouri” and “It’s a Game.” More
Vice President Joe Biden Also Talked
Jan 13, 2016
By Christopher Roberts
Last night President Barack Obama delivered his eighth and final State of the Union address. At the White House there was a preshow event last night that was live streamed and can be watched below. EL VY (the project of The National’s frontman Matt Berninger and former Menomena member Brent Knopf, who also records as Ramona Falls) performed at the event, as did rapper Wale. More
Return to the Moon Out Now via 4AD
Nov 24, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
EL VY (the project of The National’s frontman Matt Berninger and former Menomena member Brent Knopf, who also records as Ramona Falls) released their excellent debut album, Return to the Moon, at the end of October via 4AD. Now they have shared a video for “No Time to Crank the Sun.” As with all of EL VY’s videos thus far, Matt’s brother Tom Berninger directed the clip. More
Return to the Moon Out Now via 4AD
Nov 03, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
The National’s frontman Matt Berninger has teamed up with former Menomena member Brent Knopf (who also records as Ramona Falls) for the new project EL VY. The duo just released their great debut album as EL VY, Return to the Moon, last Friday via 4AD. Last night they opened their tour at Portland’s Doug Fir Lounge in what was essentially their first full on live show (beyond some shorter performances). More
Return to the Moon Due Out This Friday via 4AD
Oct 29, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
The National’s frontman Matt Berninger has teamed up with former Menomena member Brent Knopf (who also records as Ramona Falls) for the new project EL VY. The duo will be releasing their debut album as EL VY, Return to the Moon, tomorrow (Friday, October 30) via 4AD. Today they have shared another single for it, “Silent Ivy Hotel,” via Spotify. More
Return to the Moon Due Out This Friday via 4AD
Oct 26, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
The National’s frontman Matt Berninger has teamed up with former Menomena member Brent Knopf (who also records as Ramona Falls) for the new project EL VY. The duo will be releasing their debut album as EL VY, Return to the Moon, this Friday (October 30) via 4AD. Today they have shared another single for it, “Need a Friend,” via its lyric video. More
Return to the Moon Due Out October 30 via 4AD
Oct 01, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
The National’s frontman Matt Berninger has teamed up with former Menomena member Brent Knopf (who also records as Ramona Falls) for the new project EL VY. The duo will be releasing their debut album as EL VY, Return to the Moon, on October 30 via 4AD. More
Jul 13, 2012
By Mike Hilleary
Releasing his newest album Prophet a few months back, former Menomena member Brent Knopf has returned to deliver a new music video for his now full-time project Ramona Falls. More
Hear Upcoming Records Online
Apr 23, 2012
By Mike Hilleary
Ramona Falls’ new album Prophet, the follow-up to 2009’s Intuit, is scheduled to finally hit store shelves on May 1 via Barsuk. More
Apr 09, 2012
By Mike Hilleary
Devoting himself now full-time to what was once a side-project, former Menomena member Brent Knopf and his band Ramona Falls are set to release their sophomore LP Prophet on May 1. More
Feb 15, 2012
By Mike Hilleary
Former Menomena member Brent Knopf and his band Ramona Falls have announced the release of their forthcoming sophomore album, Prophet. More
May 13, 2010
By Mark Redfern
Ramona Falls (aka Menomena’s Brent Knopf) have released a new video for single “Russia,” which is taken from 2009’s slightly underappreciated debut, Intuit. In the charming clip our hero attempts to woo his lady via origami, Russian Dolls, and so forth, but she continually quotes the song’s “too little, too late” lyric. We have the video. More
Interviews
Together Apart: Matt Berninger of The National and Brent Knopf of Menomena and Ramona Falls on Their Years-in-the-Making Collaboration
Feb 19, 2016
By MIke Hilleary
Matt Berninger and Brent Knopf are at the same address, but they’re not in the same room. In New York City, “running around doing some TV tapings, radio thingies, and stuff like this,” as Berninger calls it, The National frontman is 17 stories up occupying a hotel suite overlooking the memorial site of Ground Zero. More
Dec 20, 2009
By Under the Radar Staff
Under the Radar‘s Best of the Decade/Year-End Issue features our Best of the Decade Artist Survey. For Under the Radar’s 7th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to the last decade and asked them for a list of their best albums of the decade. Some of the surveys didn’t make it in the issue and some answers from surveys that did make it in the issue had to be trimmed for space. Those surveys and answers are posted on our website. Here is a web-exclusive survey from Paul Alcott of Ramona Falls.
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Reviews
Aug 31, 2009
By Laura Studarus
Named after a hiking path near Mt. Hood, Menomena’s Brent Knopf veers slightly off the experimental rock path in search of simpler delights with his solo debut project, Ramona Falls. Featuring 35 of Knopf’s best friends, including members of The Helio Sequence and Mirah, Intuit contains the same jazz, folk, and subtle electronia elements of his day job. However, here Knopf’s free-form musicality is layered under deeply introspective lyrics focusing on, you know, the sort of quiet, thought-provoking topics that might make you want to escape for a long nature walk in the first place. More