When talking about the origins of The Walkmen, people often mention Paul Maroon, Walter Martin and Matt Barrick's previous group Jonathan Fire*Eater as an important source of musical style and sensibility. But Hamilton Leithauser and Peter Bauer were also in a band together, The Recoys , and while they didn't garner the major label attention lavished on Jonathan Fire*Eater, they did record a small but saavy collection of swinging and inspired rock and roll tunes. The group's out of print EP and a collection of songs destined for a future unfinished LP were released together for the [...]
Recoys - Shake Off Your Nerve The Recoys were the band that nurtured the talents of Hamilton Leithauser (Walkmen lead singer and Recoys frontman), and Pete Bauer (Walkmen bassist/keyboardist). 'Shake Off Your Nerve' is definitely proto-"Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone," i.e., replace the harmonica in this song with an organ, and you've got yourself a Walkmen track (which actually, "Blizzard of '96," and "That's the Punchline" were both written as Recoys songs). "Shake Off Your Nerve" features a galloping drumbeat and a sheer wall of harmonica lament to accompany [...]
Not much has changed since Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone. Hamilton Leithause's croon is just as raspy as every and the guitars jangle more than ever while the percussion is still hit hard. But that's not to say that there won't be anything special about their new album You & [...]
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Paper girl , originally uploaded by The Chaninator™ . I don't know why, it just caught my eye. I don't know if the girl wrapped in news paper is supposed to be socially significant or if it's just supposed to be a hot girl wrapped in paper. Either way, it's a nice piece. A [...]
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So, I've come back off an amazing holiday in the South Island of New Zealand. During the travels, my iPod managed to break itself (seriously, I took it out of my pocket and there's a big hole in the screen) in Christchurch so I'm mourning it's loss and now having to use my phone as a rather tentative mp3 player. This means I've gotta choose an optimum playlist of songs that I could listen to on repeat or have done and will do. On doing this, I found a lot of brilliant tracks not found on albums or by bands [...]
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Monday Music – 28 May 2012
Listen: The Vaccines – No Hope
