Song:Red Moon
Album:You & Me
The Walkmen were a critically acclaimed indie band who had modest success. They just never broke through commercially before they split up in 2014. The Walkmen are from Washington, DC. Some of them attended the same high school. They formed in 2000. They were a merger of two bands. Lead singer and guitarist Hamilton Leithauser and bassist Peter Bauer were in The Recoys. Guitarist Paul Maroon, organist Walter Martin and drummer Matt Barrick were in Jonathan Fire*Eater. They moved to New York City and built a recording studio in Harlem. They signed with Startime International and released a 2001 EP and started playing gigs. Their 2002 album Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone was critically acclaimed with favorable comparisons to U2 and The Cure. They moved to Record Collection for the 2004 album Bows + Arrows. The singles The Rat and Little House of Savages got some radio airplay especially in England. The Walkman appeared on the Fox series The O.C. After the 2006 album A Hundred Miles Off, The Walkmen were forced to close their studio after the building was sold. Then they released "Pussy Cats" Starring The Walkmen, a tribute to the 1974 Harry Nilsson/John Lennon album Pussy Cats. For the 2008 album You & Me, The Walkmen signed with Gigantic Music. Red Moon appeared on an episode of Breaking Bad. They moved to Fat Possum for the 2010 album Lisbon and the 2012 album Heaven. The song Heaven appeared on the series finale of How I Met Your Mother. In 2014 The Walkmen announced they were going on "extreme hiatus". Bauer said they are not calling it a split but it is very unlikely The Walkmen will reunite. He said fourteen years together is long enough. Leithauser, Martin and Bauer have all recorded solo albums. Maroon appeared on one of Leithauser's albums. Barrick joined Fleet Foxes. In 2016 Leithauser formed Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam with Rostam Batmanglij formerly of Vampire Weekend. They have released two albums on Glassnote. Here's The Walkmen performing Red Moon at the Triple Door in Seattle Jan. 25, 2009 for Seattle radio station KEXP.
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