Jan 09, 2025 By Mark Redfern

Hamilton Leithauser of The Walkmen has announced a new solo album, This Side of the Island, and released a new single from it, “Knockin’ Heart,” via a music video. More

Apr 19, 2023 By Mark Redfern

The Walkmen previously announced some reunion shows, which start this Saturday in New York City. Last night they were the musical guests on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where they performed their 2004 single “The Rat,” in what was the band’s first public performance in almost a decade. More

Dec 06, 2022 By Joey Arnone

The Walkmen have announced a set of new May 2023 live dates, including a show at the next Shaky Knees festival. Tickets will go on sale this Friday (Dec. 9). More

Nov 15, 2022 By Mark Redfern

The Walkmen have announced that they are reuniting for their first shows in a decade. More

Oct 12, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Kevin Morby and Hamilton Leithauser (formerly of The Walkmen) have shared a new song, “Virginia Beach.” It is out now via Dead Oceans. More

Jun 05, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Muzz is a new band that features Paul Banks of Interpol, Matt Barrick of The Walkmen, and Josh Kaufman of Bonny Light Horseman. Today they have released their self-titled debut album via Matador. Now that the album’s out you can stream the whole thing here. Also, yesterday we posted our review of the album. More

May 22, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Muzz is a new band that features Paul Banks of Interpol, Matt Barrick of The Walkmen, and Josh Kaufman of Bonny Light Horseman. They are releasing their self-titled debut album on June 5 via Matador. Now they have shared a new live acoustic video of the three members performing a new previously unreleased song from the album, “Trinidad,” separately and remotely in these socially distant times. More

Apr 15, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Muzz is a new band that features Paul Banks of Interpol, Matt Barrick of The Walkmen, and Josh Kaufman of Bonny Light Horseman. Now they have announced their self-titled debut album and shared another song from it, “Red Western Sky,” via a video for the single. More

Apr 15, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Walter Martin (formerly of The Walkmen) has shared a hilarious new COVD-19 themed song, “Quarantine Boogie (Loco),” that features guest vocals from Matt Berninger of The National. It was shared via a video that also features Berninger. More

Oct 17, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Hamilton Leithauser of The Walkmen and Rostam Batmanglij (formerly of Vampire Weekend) have teamed up and released a collaborative album, I Had a Dream That You Were Mine, on last month via Glassnote. More

Sep 16, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Hamilton Leithauser of The Walkmen and Rostam Batmanglij (formerly of Vampire Weekend) have teamed up and are releasing a collaborative album, I Had a Dream That You Were Mine, next Friday (September 23) via Glassnote (it’s out today on vinyl). More

Sep 13, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Hamilton Leithauser of The Walkmen and Rostam Batmanglij (formerly of Vampire Weekend) have teamed up and are releasing a collaborative album, I Had a Dream That You Were Mine, on September 23 via Glassnote (it’s out September 16 on vinyl). More

Aug 26, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Hamilton Leithauser of The Walkmen and Rostam Batmanglij (formerly of Vampire Weekend) have teamed up and are releasing a collaborative album, I Had a Dream That You Were Mine, on September 23 via Glassnote. More

Aug 05, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Hamilton Leithauser of The Walkmen and Rostam Batmanglij (formerly of Vampire Weekend) recently teamed up for the collaborative song “A 1000 Times.” Now the duo has announced a whole album together and shared another new song, “In a Black Out,” which is below. More

Jul 22, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Rostam Batmanglij recently announced that he had left Vampire Weekend and would be releasing music under his first name and shared a couple of solo songs. Now Rostam has teamed up with Hamilton Leithauser of The Walkmen (who have been on hiatus for awhile now) for a new collaborative song, “A 1000 Times.” More

Nov 21, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Releasing his debut solo album Black Hours earlier this year The Walkmen‘s Hamilton Leithauser has shared a new non-album track titled, “Room For Forgiveness.” More

May 20, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Just a little while longer until he releases his debut solo album Black Hours, The Walkmen‘s Hamilton Leithauser has premiered an official lyric video for the included track “I Retired.” More

Apr 25, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

On May 13 The Walkmen‘s Walter Martin will release his debut solo album We’re All Young Together. More

Apr 08, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

On May 13 The Walkmen‘s Walter Martin will release his new solo album We’re All Young Together. More

Feb 25, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Following initial reports of its existence last year, The Walkmen‘s Hamilton Leithauser has officially announced the release of his debut solo album, Black Hours. More

Feb 17, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Over the weekend The Walkmen appeared in New Orleans at the Rock On Foundation’s first Alt-Star Party to celebrate the NBA All-Star Game, performing what will supposedly be their final show as a band. More

Feb 10, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Recently committed to a prolonged hiatus, various members of The Walkmen have turned their attention to their own individual projects. More

Jan 08, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

After announcing an indefinite hiatus last month and performing their supposed last show, The Walkmen back-peddled a bit yesterday when they announced that they would be performing the Rock On Foundation‘s first Alt-Star Party during New Orleans’ NBA All-Star Weekend. More

Dec 02, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

With a single show left in support of their 2012 album Heaven, The Walkmen have announced plans to take a rather extended vacation from music for a while, at least with each other. More

Aug 22, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Hamilton Leithauser, frontman for New York’s The Walkmen, is reportedly working on solo album at work on a new solo album. More

Nov 14, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Lending a hand in the relief efforts after Hurricane Sandy, several New York-based musicians and their friends will join together for a special benefit concert. More

Oct 29, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

The Walkmen have announced that they will embark on a new tour this coming January with folk artist Father John Misty. More

Oct 03, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

The Walkmen have announced that they will release a limited edition 7’’ single on Nov. 6, featuring previously unreleased tracks “Dance With Your Partner” and “Vermeer ‘65.” More

Sep 14, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Still dishing out the goods for the late night viewer The Walkmen made an appearance as the musical guest on Conan yesterday, performing their new single “Love Is Luck” off this year’s Heaven. More

Aug 22, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Last night The Walkmen graced the stage of the Ed Sullivan Theater visiting as the musical guest on The Late Show with David Letterman. More

Aug 22, 2012 By Michele Yamamoto

The CMJ Music Marathon 2012 has just released the initial line up for its October 16-20 run in New York City. Artists include The Walkmen, The Mountain Goats, The Love Language, Dent May, Kimbra, GZA, OFF!, Foxygen, Opossom, The Stepkids, Arthur Beatrice, Com Truise, DIIV, Exitmusic, Electric Guest, Prince Rama, The Presets, and more. More

Jul 11, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

After debuting a music video for their Heaven track “The Love You Love” just a matter of days ago, The Walkmen have turned right around to deliver a sweeping love letter to New York City in their video for “Heartbreaker.” More

Jul 09, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

The Walkmen, still supporting the band’s newest album Heaven, have unveiled a new music video for their standout track “The Love You Love.” More

Jun 06, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Before kicking off a massive North American tour tonight at New York’s Bowery Ballroom, The Walkmen stopped by 30 Rock to appear as the musical guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. More

Jun 04, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Announcing last month a number of North American tour dates, many alongside Florence and the Machine, The Walkmen have decided to extend their stay on the road through the coming fall. More

May 30, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

With their new album Heaven seeing its release yesterday, The Walkmen have now premiered a memory-filled music video for the album’s title track. More

May 21, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

After debuting their new album Valtari in full through a time-zone traveling stream, Icelandic instrumenalists Sigur Rós have now offered the eight-track effort to the online community with more open-ended accessibility. More

May 15, 2012 By Laura Studarus

The Walkmen’s new album Heaven streets on May 29. Ahead of that, they’ll release the titled track as a 7”. Ahead of that is this B-Side “The House You Made.” More

May 08, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Having already offered up early listens to a number of tracks off their forthcoming album Heaven, The Walkmen have added one more to the queue with a steady-builder entitled “We Can’t Be Beat.” More

May 02, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Having already gotten a good taste of things to come from The Walkmen‘s forthcoming LP Heaven with streams of its title track and “Heartbreaker,” the band has allowed yet another cut “Southern Heart” to surface online. More

Apr 18, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Just days after premiering the official recorded version of their upcoming album’s title track “Heaven,” The Walkmen have allowed another cut from the record to surface. More

Apr 16, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

On June 5, The Walkmen will release their seventh full-length album Heaven. More

Apr 02, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

As previously reported, The Walkmen will soon release their seventh LP, Heaven, on June 5. More

Mar 29, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

The Walkmen have announced that they are to release their new album, Heaven, on June 5 via Fat Possum/Bella Union. More

Mar 08, 2012 By Laura Studarus

The Walkmen have finished up work on their new album, the follow-up to 2010’s Lisbon. What better way to celebrate than with some very silly U2 covers? Well, that’s the idea anyway. More

Sep 21, 2011 By Wendy Lynch Redfern

Check out photos from Day Three of ACL Music Festival 2011 in Austin, TX including Arcade Fire, Fleet Foxes, Elbow, Dale Earnhart Jr. Jr. Empire of the Sun, and more. More

Sep 08, 2011 By Laura Studarus

The Walkmen recently swung by the KEXP studios in Seattle. We have the audio. More

Jul 26, 2011 By Margot Cooper Gruen

Fleet Foxes have announced more tour dates in support of May release Helplessness Blues. More

Feb 28, 2011 By Lauren Barbato

The Walkmen do some deep-sea diving in their newest video “Orange Sunday.” We have the video. More

Feb 25, 2011 By Laura Studarus

The Walkmen head out into the brutal New York winter in new video “While I Shovel the Snow.” We have the clip. More

Jan 07, 2011 By Lauren Barbato

Indie rock group The Walkmen paid a visit to the Late Show with David Letterman last night. More

Aug 13, 2010 By Kyle Lemmon

The Walkmen stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to preview a new tune from their sixth full-length, Lisbon. They performed the aptly-titled surf-rock anthem,“Angela Surf City.” Lead singer Hamilton Leithauser, nearly shreds his larynx by the track’s end. Check it out, indie boys and girls. The NYC/Philly indie-rockers have several dates this fall. Check them out at their website. Lisbon drops September 14th via Fat Possum. More

Jun 17, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Two years after You & Me, The Walkmen are returning with Lisbon (out September 14th on Fat Possum). We have the details. More

Mar 21, 2010 By Mark Redfern

Staff photographer and Under the Radar‘s Co-Publisher/Co-Founder, Wendy Lynch Redfern, was down in Austin, Texas for SXSW 2010. Check out a gallery of her photos from the first day of the music portion of SXSW 2010. The gallery includes photos of Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Casiokids, Everything Everything, Findlay Brown, Oh No Ono, The Walkmen, and Spoon. More

Feb 10, 2010 By Laura Studarus

New York-based rockers The Walkmen recently signed to Fat Possum. While busy recording their follow-up to 2008’s You & Me, they’re finding time to step outside the studio and perform a few one-off gigs. We have the info. More

Apr 21, 2020 By Mark Redfern

We are checking in with musicians during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic to see how they are dealing with everything. What has their home quarantine experience been like so far and how is the crisis impacting both their career and art? Here we check in with Walter Martin (formerly of The Walkmen). More

May 03, 2018 By Charles Steinberg

The response to figures in art is strongest either when they are mysterious or when they are relatable; when their opacity fascinates or their transparency disarms. It is rare, and something that might only come along when you’ve followed an artist for many years, when the same figure encompasses that polarity. More

May 06, 2016 By Mark Redfern

My Firsts is our email interview series where we ask musicians to tell us about their first life experiences, be it early childhood ones (first word, first concert, etc.) or their first tastes of being a musician (first band, first tour, etc.). Read on as Martin talks about the first album he bought, his first favorite song, his first major disappointment, his first celebrity crush, and the first times he got drunk and got fired. More

Feb 22, 2016 By Mark Redfern

For Under the Radar’s 13th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2015. We asked them about their favorite albums of the year and their thoughts on various notable 2015 news stories involving either the music industry or world events, as well as some quirkier personal questions. Here are some answers from Hamilton Leithauser. Leithauser’s band, The Walkmen, may be on “extreme hiatus” (as they announced in November of 2013), but in 2014 Ribbon Music released the singer’s debut solo album, Black Hours. More

Apr 24, 2015 By Mark Redfern

To end out the week, we ask Hamilton Leithauser some questions about endings and death. More

Aug 30, 2023 By Ben Ryles & Ian Weston

Under the Radar visited the Brecon Beacons for this year’s edition of Green Man and saw a host of delightful performances over the course of the weekend. More

Aug 24, 2023 By Dom Gourlay

The Walkmen are back! So Under the Radar made the trip up the M1 to see them in Leeds and savoured every minute of their incredible set. More

May 29, 2012 By Ben Schumer

For their seventh album, Heaven, The Walkmen hired Phil Ek (Built To Spill, The Shins, Modest Mouse, Les Savy Fav, etc.) to handle production duties. It’s safe to assume this choice had something to do with The Walkmen opening for Fleet Foxes last year, as Ek produced both of Fleet Foxes’ LPs. More

Sep 19, 2010 By Jim Scott

It’s hard to forget the frenetic, desperate energy of The Walkmen’s breakout album, 2004’s Bows + Arrows, when listening to just about everything else they’ve recorded. More