Stereogum — Amazon is hoping to soundtrack your late-summer road trips with their new Open Road playlist, which features 30 contemporary artists covering various car- and traveling-themed anthems. Said artists include Hamilton Leithauser, White Reaper, and the b... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Bustle recommended August's best nonfiction books. Noisey shared an introduction to the music of Miles Davis. Vol. 1 Brooklyn, BBC Culture, and Entertainment Weekly recommended August's best new books. Hamilton Leithauser covered Talking Heads' "Road... more info

Stereogum — The 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

Stereogum — Last month, the benefit compilation Philia: Artists Rise Against Islamophobia was announced alongside a new track from Heems, and today Hamilton Leithauser has shared his contribution to the compilation, a cover of "The Song With No Name," original... more info

Stereogum — Louisville rockers White Reaper give a no-holds-barred take on the electrifying 1972 Deep Purple hit "Highway Star" (a bonafide Guitar Hero staple) for an Amazon originals soundtrack called Open Road, coming out next month. The playlist features 30 c... more info

Stereogum — At 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

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Rostam has been plenty busy of late, keeping busy producing for others, releasing one of the best albums of 2016 with Hamilton Leithauser with I Had a Dream That You Were Mine, and sharing his own solo material (which we saw him play last year during... more info

DrownedInSound — We talk mining the past & collaboration with the towering frontman more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Looking back on the year of music in 2016, one of the clear standouts for me was I Had a Dream That You Were Mine, the debut collaborative album between Hamilton Leithauser and Rostam. The album is still heavily in rotation for me and hasn’t worn o... more info

Stereogum — Hamilton Leithauser appeared on The Strombo Show in honor of his 2016 collaboration with Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij titled I Had A Dream That You Were Mine . Leithauser performed two tracks from the album ("In A Black Out" and "The Bride's ... more info