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October 16, 2008

The Walkmen Perform With Record Store Men

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When the Walkmen released their fine fourth album You & Me, musically able employees at the Nashville record store Grimey's New and Preloved Music decided to celebrate by performing Walkmen songs at an in-store. (Three of Grimey's employees are in an actual non-Walkmen cover band, the Privates.) The Walkmen caught wind of the event and, all these weeks later, invited the Privates to open for them at Nashville's the Basement this past Monday (10/13). Taking it a step further, the Privates backed up Hamilton Leithauser on his encore performance of Bows and Arrows track, "Thinking of a Dream I Had." Pretend you were there:


(Via P4K)

That was more exciting than Record Store Day.

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Strokes bassist Nikolai Fraiture confirmed that the band would begin recording their fourth album in February 2009!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Seagull at 10/16/08 1:22 PM  | Reply
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i saw the silver jews the night before at the exit/in, and that was awesome, but this was the best show i've seen in nashville in a long, long time. and it was really great to see our local record store guys get their moment in the sun. you shoulda' seen their faces...

Posted by: nick at 10/16/08 1:42 PM  | Reply
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I was at the Silver Jews show too...was it really better than the Monotonix/Joos two-punch? Man, I should have been there then.

Posted by: Stephen B profile link  in reply to nick's comment at 10/16/08 2:46 PM  | Reply
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the walkmen, they keeps it real.

Posted by: Voyno profile link at 10/16/08 1:46 PM  | Reply
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I was at this show!
Unlike no other...

Posted by: JLOCO at 10/16/08 1:52 PM  | Reply
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Saw them in Austin about a week ago. It really was one of the best shows I've seen in a long time. The new album sounds great live and the band sold merch after the show. Really nice guys and really great band.

Posted by: Leonard at 10/16/08 1:52 PM  | Reply
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best show ever. God bless the walkmen.

Posted by: Andrew J. at 10/16/08 3:09 PM  | Reply
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The band was also really strong Tuesday at the Southgate House in Newport, KY. As Leonard stated above, the new album sounds great live. You & Me is a serious contender for Top 5 album of the year status.

Posted by: matt at 10/16/08 3:16 PM  | Reply
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the monotonix/joos combo was top notch, but man.... you just shoulda been there.

Posted by: nick at 10/16/08 4:03 PM  | Reply
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brandon, i know you like the verve, but it's "fourth"

Posted by: Kevin profile link at 10/16/08 5:50 PM  | Reply
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You caught me, Kevin. I try to sneak at least one Verve reference into every post I write.

Posted by: brandon profile link  in reply to Kevin's comment at 10/16/08 6:58 PM  | Reply
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I saw the Walkmen in Madison about a month ago and they blew the roof of the place. They definitely upstaged the headlines Okkervil River.

Posted by: Skubal at 10/16/08 5:52 PM  | Reply
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That was one of the best shows i've ever seen, that night. thank you for using my video.

Posted by: lovelikeadrug at 10/16/08 6:09 PM  | Reply
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I saw them at the Southgate House in KY and found myself at times a lil bored. But the guys themselves were signing my setlist and stuff. The Rat really kicked ass live. It was cool to see them outside of my former NyC area.
-Jp

Posted by: Jp at 10/17/08 1:20 AM  | Reply
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Grimeys = best record store in the world.

And that show was amazing -- second best show in Nashville this year, just behind Grizzly Bear back in August.

Posted by: Aaron at 10/19/08 10:21 AM  | Reply
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