pThe a href="/article/news/50842-byrnedirty-projectors-collab-sufjan-feist-on-comp"strongeagerly anticipated/strong/a compilation emDark Was the Night/em, a href="/article/news/50921-aaron-dessner-discusses-red-hot-comp-the-national"strongcurated by Aaron and Bryce Dessner of the National/strong/a to benefit the a href="http://www.redhot.org/"strongRed Hot Organization/strong/a, has now completed its all-star lineup, and man, is it impressive./p pa href="/article/news/147030-more-details-about-dessners-aids-benefit-comp"strongAs previously reported/strong/a, emDark Was the Night /emarrives on double CD, triple LP, or download February 17 from a href="http://4ad.com/"strong4AD/strong/a, benefiting both your record collection and Red Hot's AIDS-fighting efforts around the world. It's Red Hot's 20th such compilation, released in conjunction with the organization's 20th anniversary, and they pulled out all the stops for this celebration./p pDeep breath...br /br /Sufjan Stevens turns in a track of his own, and he also appears on a Buck 65 remix alongside Chicago rapper Serengeti. Feist joins Grizzly Bear for a track and Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard for another, and the Grizz turn in a tune by themselves. Conor Oberst is joined by Gillian Welch, David Byrne joins the Dirty Projectors, Joseacute; Gonzaacute;lez jumps on a cover of Nick Drake's "Cello Song" with the Books, and Blonde Redhead meet up with Devastations. Spoon's got a song on there, as do Arcade Fire, the Decemberists, Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues, Belle and Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch, Yo La Tengo, Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene, Beirut, Iron and Wine, Andrew Bird, My Morning Jacket, the New Pornographers, Beach House, Yeasayer, Sigur Roacute;s offshoot Riceboy Sleeps, Bon Iver, TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Yeasayer, My Brightest Diamond (doing "Feeling Good", made famous by Nina Simone), and the Kronos Quartet, doing the Blind Willie Johnson song "Dark Was the Night"./p pThe National boys, not content to stay put in the curator's chair, turn in quite a few appearances on the thing as well. Bryce Dessner is joined by Antony Hegarty on a track, Bon Iver and Aaron Dessner join forces for a tune, and the National themselves loan one to the proceedings.br /br /On a related note, today (December 1) is World AIDS Day. To find out how you can pitch in, visit a href="http://www.worldaidscampaign.org/static/en/"strongworldaidscampaign.org/strong/a./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/1t9yvawvMq8buVJXQzS-UR5zJsk/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/1t9yvawvMq8buVJXQzS-UR5zJsk/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pitchfork/today/~4/9Jfrj-pEZK4" height="1" width="1"/