It’s taken but a matter of months for The Walkmen to return, albeit briefly, from a hiatus which their bass player Peter Bauer had told the Washington Post would prove to be ‘pretty extreme’.
What a rubbish start to the weekend – The Walkmen‘s future is in doubt after bass player Peter Bauer told The Washington Post the band ‘have no future plans whatsoever’ once shows in Washington and Philadelphia are completed in the coming days.
The Walkmen‘s frontman Hamilton Leithauser is working on a new solo album, and has evidently enlisted the help of members of The Shins, Vampire Weekend and Fleet Foxes during its recording.
Justin Young gets lost in the moment during a Vaccines gig in New York (Photo: Live4ever Media)
The Vaccines invited Temples and The Walkmen to join them at the biggest gig of their career to date in London last night (May 2nd).
The Walkmen and Reverend & The Makers are among the first acts to be confirmed for this year’s Liverpool Sound City festival.
Our Essential Listening 2012 series concludes today with The Albums.
From the ‘cohesion through experimentation’ of Tame Impala’s ‘Lonerism, through the ‘muscular power ballads, stirring, keyboard-led harmonies and call-and-response choruses’ that inform The Killers’ return with ‘Battle Born’, to the ‘sheer magnetism and unwavering belief’ which made ‘Blunderbuss’ such a …
The Walkmen have uploaded two new tracks online as they prepare to embark on a tour of the UK later this month.
Summer 2012. We’ve just had the wettest June on record, the festival season has been fractured by a series of cancellations, and album sales have fallen in their millions.
And yet, for every music fan, there’ still reasons to be cheerful.
The Stone Roses have just completed – with no …
The Walkmen will kick off an expansive North American tour tomorrow (June 6th) in support of their new album ‘Heaven‘, which hit the shelves late last month.
Now there’s a loaded word to use when talking about a new album. Does it refer to the sound of the band that finally refines and evolves into their true collective self?
Or maybe it’s the band that fancies shifting a few more units and heads closer to the …
The human voice. It’s said to be the world’s best musical instrument.
The same medium that allows us to converse also allows us to escape the limits of language. An appreciation of which could not be avoided on first listen to ‘The House You Made‘ by The Walkmen…
The Walkmen have announced five UK dates this year in support of their impending seventh studio album ‘Heaven‘.
The Walkmen will release their new album ‘Heaven‘ in June, the band have confirmed.
Feist, The Walkmen and Slow Club are amongst the early round of acts confirmed to appear at the Green Man festival in Wales this year.