Concert Series!
Band: The Walkmen
Website: www.marcata.net/walkmen
Date: October 5, 2009
Location: The Vogue Theatre, Broad Ripple, IN
Formed in 2000, The Walkmen call New York home these days, but are originally from the Washington D.C. area. Band mates, Walter Martin, Hamilton Leithauser, Paul Marron, Peter Bauer and Matt Barrick, have played together and known each other since grade school and this shows in their live shows. The band makes a point to set themselves apart from other Indie New York rockers, by experimenting with recording techniques and with traditional classic rock instruments such as an upright piano. Coupled with Martin’s unique vocals and a conscious effort to be different the other indie garage bands of their day, The Walkmen are a definite not to miss gig.
With 5 albums and one on the way in 2010, they continue to impress with their range of style. This past year Pitchfork named “The Rat” #20 on its list of the 500 Top Tracks of the 2000’s. Previously, critics have compared their work to U2, Pixies, Television and The Strokes. Saturn jumped in a few years back and placed “We’ve Been Had” in a commercial. True to The Walkmen ways of being different, they took on the full album cover of Harry Nilsson & John Lennon’s 1974 Pussy Cats (Starring the Walkmen) in late 2006.
After seeing these guys four times, it’s always new and fresh. I caught them on their last show of the current tour and I was not disappointed.
Check out these tracks:
- We’ve Been Had
- Louisiana
- In The New Year
- Another One Goes By
- The Rat
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