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  Solange, the Walkmen, Black Flag Fronting Brooklyn's Northside Festival 2013

  April 30, 2013 – The Walkmen, Solange, Black Flag, Phosphorescent, Iceage, the Men, and more will be dropping by the music portion of Brooklyn's annual Northside Festival this year. …
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  Hear Light Heat's Shimmering Slow-Burner 'The Mirror'

  February 19, 2013 – Under the banner of Mazarin, Philadelphia-based songwriter Quinten Stolzfus spent the better part of the early aughts conjuring a haze of psych-inflected folk-pop. But after a period of reticence that lasted almost as long as the project did, Stolzfus has returned as Light Heat, backed by Paul Maroon, Matt Barrick, Peter Bauer, Walter Martin of the Walkmen. …
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  The Walkmen Unearth Two Tracks for Limited Edition 7"

  October 2, 2012 – After releasing their sixth album, Heaven, back on Memorial Day weekend, alt-rock debonaires the Walkmen are at it again. …
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  Lollapalooza 2012: 10 Best and Worst of Day Three

  August 6, 2012 – Lollapalooza 2012 — with its Black Sabbath sorta-reunion, puke-filled Perry's Stage, and massive storm evacuation — has come to an end. It wasn't going to be easy to top the spectacle of watching 60,000 flee Grant Park with bleak clouds approaching, but Jack White and the Sunday lineup did what they could to bring the drama. See what you missed: our best live photos from Lollapalooza '12. …
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  Psychic TV: Watch the Walkmen's Spectral 'The Love You Love' Video

  July 9, 2012 – "Love" appears in two of the song titles from the Walkmen's latest album, Heaven. Unless iTunes deceives, none of the song titles from the band's half-dozen previous studio albums used that word. Such an unembarrassed grab at pop-standard normalcy is what can, as Camille Dodoro sagely observes in her review, occasionally make Heaven feel a bit too much like a lifestyle brand. …
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  Vampire Weekend and the Walkmen Frontmen Grill Each Other

  June 28, 2012 – First of all, I wanna give a big shout-out to SPIN magazine. Next, I wanna say hello to all the readers of SPIN magazine. Hamilton Leithauser and I first met ten years ago when I was a freshman in college, interning at the Walkmen's studio in Harlem, Marcata. …
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  See Walkmen, Edward Sharpe, Bahamas Bring Warm Jams to Late Night

  June 6, 2012 – The Walkmen donned their Tuesday best to celebrate the release of their new record Heaven on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon yesterday, performing the album's title track during the broadcast and "The Love You Love" as a bonus for online viewers. …
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  The Walkmen, 'Heaven' (Fat Possum/Bella Union)

  June 5, 2012 – The Walkmen, five D.C. transplants with a collective affinity for collars and sweaters, were never known for clinging to adolescence. …
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  The Walkmen Open Up on Gorgeous 'Heaven': Listen Now

  April 17, 2012 – At a Midwestern festival date two years ago, just before the release of the Walkmen's latest album, Lisbon, a torrential thunderstorm broke out in the middle of the New York rockers' set. Keyboard player Walter Martin made a go of it, trying to play with one hand while sheltering his expensive electronics with the other, but eventually the band had to take a brief break, bust out the tarps, and pull everything farther back under cover. …
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  The Walkmen Finish New Album, Cover U2 Horribly

  March 8, 2012 – The Walkmen have been getting compared to U2 for so long it has probably replaced questions about precursor band Jonathan Fire*eater's sad major-label flop on the New York rockers' list of pet peeves. Hell, SPIN compared them to "U2 meets Neil Diamond" in one of their very first mentions in this magazine. Good news: The Walkmen have announced the completion of the follow-up to their older, wiser 2010 album Lisbon. …
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