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The Walkmen’s Walter Martin Pays Tribute To Jonathan Fire*Eater Bandmate Stewart Lupton

2152 days ago
StereogumStewart Lupton, the musician and poet best known as the frontman for the influential New York rock band Jonathan Fire*Eater, died over Memorial Day weekend at age 43. Three of Lupton's bandmates in that group went on to play in the Walkmen, including... more info

Live Review: Hamilton Leithauser and Courtney Marie Andrews at the Neptune Theatre 10/21

2339 days ago
KEXP SeattleFive songs into Hamilton Leithauser’s headlining set at the Neptune Theatre last week, a man got down on one knee and proposed to his sweetheart. The news didn’t reach the stage until after the former frontman for The Walkmen howled ... more info

Essential artists of the mixtape era

2380 days ago
MSN MusicThe whole world changed the day you realized you could hook up your record turntable to a cassette deck and make a tape compilation of your favorite music. When that tape became portable via boomboxes and Walkmen, those mixes became the soundtrack to... more info

Hamilton Leithauser – “Heartstruck (Wild Hunger)” (Feat. Angel Olsen)

2381 days ago
StereogumFormer Walkmen frontman Hamilton Leithauser's most recent big release was his album-length team-up Rostam Batmanglij in 2016, and his new song sees him partnering with another indie heavy-hitter. "Heartstruck (Wild Hunger)" is a theatrical and starry... more info

New Music To Delight Your Ears - Genius

2402 days ago
The Devil Has The Best TunaGeniusFrom: Busan, South KoreaWith influences including Ralph Wiggum, pro wrestling, The Cramps, punk '76, pulp comics, Pedro the Lion, schlock films, cold grapes, Al Bundy, dry socks, The Walkmen, Pavement, drunk ballads, and the young Chow Yun ... more info

Peter Matthew Bauer – “Khidr (American Drifter Music)” Video

2402 days ago
StereogumIt's been almost four years since the Walkmen went on hiatus, and in that time a few of their members have been pretty active, with frontman Hamilton Leithauser and Walter Martin each releasing a few solo records. Peter Matthew Bauer -- who had serve... more info

Hamilton Leithauser – “Road To Nowhere” (Talking Heads Cover)

2453 days ago
StereogumThe former Walkmen frontman Hamilton Leithauser has carried over the lightly-drunk lounge-lizard soulfulness of his old band over into his solo career, and he has a great way of making his covers sound like barroom singalongs. In recent months, he's ... more info

Rostam – “Bike Dream”

2501 days ago
StereogumAt the beginning of last year, Rostam Batmanglij announced that he was leaving Vampire Weekend to focus on his solo career. Since then, he's shared a couple of songs and put out an entire album with the Walkmen's Hamilton Leithauser, and now he's off... more info

Stream Walter Martin My Kinda Music

2545 days ago
Stereogum"This is my kinda music/ Yeah the beat's kinda bumpy and the tune's a tiny bit off key," sing-says Walter Martin, multi-instrumentalist and former Walkmen member, on "My Kinda Music," from his new album of the same name. This unobstructed sense of se... more info

STN recommends: 10/4/17

2566 days ago
Sweeping The NationFeist - CenturyLeslie Feist has described Pleasure, released on the 28th, as an attempt at a more raw, guileless recording session. You can well believe that on the evidence of this, tightly wound and meaningfully sparse. With martial drums and unclu... more info

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