Last weekend the Walkmen gave the Guggenheim Crowd a triumphant take on You & Me's "On The Water." Just in time for their push through the late-summer/fall festival season, here's an animated Nir Ben Jacob-directed video for the track that... CONTINUE READING NEW WALKMEN VIDEO - "ON THE WATER" »
Posted on August 20, 2009 in (19 comments)
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On Friday (8/14), the Walkmen played the Guggenheim Museum with High Places as part of the "It Came From Brooklyn" concert series. Ray Concepcion captured a portion of the Walkmen's set in a high-quality video he dedicates to Les Paul.... CONTINUE READING WALKMEN PLAY THE GUGGENHEIM, HAVE ARTY VIDEO TO PROVE IT»
Posted on August 17, 2009 in (12 comments)
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In this clip for one of You & Me's many clippable tracks, the Walkmen are a lot like the Polyphonic Spree and Kaki King in that they made an animated video from a shit ton of still photos. However they... CONTINUE READING NEW WALKMEN VIDEO - "FOUR PROVINCES"»
Posted on February 3, 2009 in (14 comments)
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On Inauguration Night, Hamilton dedicated this song and its "I know that it's true, it's gonna be a good year"s to President Barack Obama. A week later the tune's falling-downstairs groove makes a good platform for Ham to cock his... CONTINUE READING THE WALKMEN USHER "IN THE NEW YEAR" ON CONAN»
Posted on January 27, 2009 in (9 comments)
Tags: Bumbershoot | Conan O'Brien | Elvis Perkins | The Walkmen
While the Obamas were busy party hopping in D.C., the Walkmen were toasting the new age in American politics with a show at Los Angeles's Henry Fonda Theater. Hamilton dedicated "The New Year" and its "I know that it's true,... CONTINUE READING THE WALKMEN/BEACH HOUSE/JOHNNY AND THE MOON @ HENRY FONDA THEATER, LOS ANGELES 1/20/09»
Posted on January 21, 2009 in , (12 comments)
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The Black Cab Sessions latest posting features a session with Ry, joined in the backseat and on additional guitar/harmonies by Cardinal mate Neal Casal, singing Cardinology cut "Sink Ships." It's pretty and straightforward from a viewer's perspective, and was also... CONTINUE READING RYAN ADAMS SINGS WHILE HIS BLACK CAB DRIVES A STRAIGHT LINE»
Posted on January 9, 2009 in (23 comments)
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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... CONTINUE READING THE WALKMEN PERFORM WITH RECORD STORE MEN»
Posted on October 16, 2008 in (15 comments)
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The Walkmen's fourth album You & Me is powered, largely, through a dense, dark ambiance and Hamilton Leithauser's raw howl. If you strip away the sonic layers, and perform the songs acoustically, you lose the underwater drums and the sense... CONTINUE READING THE WALKMEN GO FOR A WALK IN SAN FRANCISCO»
Posted on September 26, 2008 in (5 comments)
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As we said on premature evaluation day: unexpectedly, the Walkmen are a band that matters in 2008, and You & Me is one for the year-end lists. "In The New Year" came as the advance track, and gave the record's... CONTINUE READING NEW WALKMEN VIDEO - "IN THE NEW YEAR"»
Posted on August 28, 2008 in , (9 comments)
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There's also a performance of "On The Water," and despite how much we love You & Me, it's the awesomely awkward banter that's worth the click. Also it's a nice guide of things not to try and small talk about... CONTINUE READING THE WALKMEN, AWKWARDLY INTERVIEWED BY FOX 5»
Posted on August 20, 2008 (7 comments)
Tags: Coachella | Drive-By Truckers | Ted Leo | The Walkmen
When the Walkmen stopped by Daytrotter recently, they decided to make it Neil Hagerty tribute day, covering "Yellow Kid" from Royal Trux's 1998 album Accelerator along with Neil Michael Hagerty's "Chicken, You Can Roost On The Moon" and "Greasy Saint"... CONTINUE READING THE WALKMEN COVER NEIL HAGERTY, ROYAL TRUX»
Posted on August 4, 2008 in (8 comments)
Tags: Leonard Cohen | Natalie Portman's Shaved Head | Neil Hagerty | Royal Trux | SXSW | The Walkmen
That price is good for three weeks -- you pay $5 (buy here), and Amie Street gives $5 to a charity close to the hearts of Hamilton and the rest of the 'men, which is just one more reason You... CONTINUE READING THE WALKMEN'S YOU & ME IS $5 ON AMIE STREET»
Posted on July 29, 2008 (2 comments)
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Before we got to soak-in the woozy organ and raw yelps of "In the New Year," the last taste we had of the Walkmen was that one-off "Lemon Hill." As we mentioned then, the Men said "Lemon" wasn't "exactly in... CONTINUE READING PREMATURE EVALUATION: THE WALKMEN - YOU & ME»
Posted on July 11, 2008 in (21 comments)
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At the beginning of the month, we mentioned the Walkmen's forthcoming fourth collection You & Me. The press release name-dropped Elvis, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Randy Newman, the Modern Lovers, and the Pogues. It's hard to tell if this roll... CONTINUE READING NEW WALKMEN - "IN THE NEW YEAR"»
Posted on June 19, 2008 in , (12 comments)
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New Walkmen album on the way, everybody. We got our last listen of new stuff from Ham & Co. a year ago with the one off "Lemon Hill," but don't look to that tipsy instrumental as a sign of what... CONTINUE READING THE WALKMEN READY FOR YOU & ME»
Posted on June 6, 2008 in (4 comments)
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Good news/bad news for Walkmen fans. Despite the band's brash display of three new tunes this past year ("Red River" for Spidey 3, "I Lost You" and "What Happened To You" for Soundcheck), a new update to the band's site... CONTINUE READING NEW WALKMEN - "LEMON HILL"»
Posted on June 27, 2007 in (4 comments)
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Peter Parker likes indie now, and like any self-respecting music fan in the digital age, he's all about showing off his taste on his MySpace page. So head to myspace.com/spiderman for previously unreleased (and entirely awesome) cuts from the Walkmen... CONTINUE READING SPIDERMAN UNLEASHES NEW YYYS, WALKMEN TRACKS»
Posted on April 9, 2007 (10 comments)
Tags: Antony Hegarty | Garth Brooks | How I Met Your Mother | Jason Segel | Spider-Man 3 | The Walkmen | Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Despite the excellent lineups all over town, our daylight hours on Friday had been spoken for well before we made the trek to SouthBy (and particularly after spending Thursday systematically missing a bunch of the acts we'd hoped to... CONTINUE READING SXSW: FRIDAY IN AUSTIN»
Posted on March 19, 2007 in , (5 comments)
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The Soundcheck show on WNYC played host to The Walkmen this week, where Hamilton and the crew crooned through two new tunes, "I Lost You" and "What Happened To You." Don't look for deep sonic departures, but they've got that... CONTINUE READING WALKMEN PERFORM NEW SONGS LIVE ON SOUNDCHECK»
Posted on February 9, 2007 (1 comments)
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Back in '74, John Lennon and Harry Nilsson went on a bender forever known as "the lost weekend," a stretch of months starring booze, drugs, and the bars of LA. To commemorate their debauchery, Harry and John set a mix... CONTINUE READING WIN OLD AND NEW PUSSY CATS»
Posted on October 17, 2006 in (221 comments)
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We're enjoying Insound's Save The Album (We Sell Digital Now!) site, where indie rockers including Tim Harrington, Bloc Party, and Devendra Banhart discuss their favorite albums. Walkman Paul Maroon and Decemberist Colin Meloy both sing the praises of The Pogues'... CONTINUE READING SAVE THE (POGUES) ALBUM»
Posted on October 16, 2006 (1 comments)
Tags: Bloc Party | Devendra Banhart | The Decemberists | The Mountain Goats | The Walkmen
