It Came From Brooklyn: The Walkmen
- story Peter Macia
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, venerable Manhattan museum The Guggenheim started a new concert series called It Came From Brooklyn with that borough’s best playing in the Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda. The series started last Friday with The Walkmen, High Places and The Brooklyn Steppers with readings of Walt Whitman by Colson Whitehead in between. Does that mean there are no artists left in Manhattan? Either way, local filmmaker Ray Concepcion, whose music shorts have quickly become our favorite way to watch local shows (other than going to the actual shows), asked to film it for us and here are his videos of The Walkmen’s “In The New Year,” “On The Water” and “Red Moon,” all from the band’s intense and awesome You & Me.
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posted on Aug 17, 2009 in MUSIC LIVE SHOW tags It Came From Brooklyn, Ray Concepcion, rock, The Guggenheim, The Walkmen
Video: The Walkmen, “In The New Year”
- story THE FADER
We’ve spent quite a bit of time with the new Walkmen record You and Me (out now on Gigantic), mainly because it retains everything that we love about the band: the murky jangle, the yelped vocals, the feeling that we are listening to the musical equivalent of falling off a bar stool in a really well put together outfit. But this time it’s all more adult — less coiled rage and more expansive melancholy. So there’s nothing as furious as “The Rat” on here, but there is “In the New Year,” which might as well be called “Petty Shit Doesn’t Upset Me as Much Because I Have Other Stuff to Worry About Now Like Dying Alone.”
The Walkmen Pre-Release New Album For Charity
- story THE FADER
We have all witnessed some interesting sales (or non-sales) tactics by artists in the last couple of years, from giving their album away to corporate branding to letting us choose our own price, but this is clearly the best idea we’ve heard so far. The perennially underrated DC/NYC band The Walkmen is releasing its new album You & Me three weeks early for only $5 on Amie Street, with all proceeds going to New York City’s Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in honor of its 7-month-old patient Luca Vasallo. Take that Radiohead! That is, of course, good enough reason to buy 3 or 4 copies of You & Me, but also rest assured that the music is as good as ever, and if you need any more motivation, please check “In The New Year” on The Walkmen’s MySpace. Or stop being such a jerk all the time and just buy it.
