The Walkmen have set a June 5, 2012 release date for their new studio album, Heaven

Their seventh LP will be 'bigger' and 'more generous' according to frontman Hamilton Leithauser

Earlier this month, great New York indie wailers the Walkmen posted a goofy medley of U2 covers, which they’d apparently recorded in a delirious burst of energy to celebrate the fact that they were done recording their new album. Then, literally minutes after we were done putting together our Most Anticipated Albums list, the band [...]

The Walkmen have just finished recording the follow up to their awesome, awesome 2010 album Lisbon, which is obviously great news. And to blow off steam after the recording sessions, they got together with producer Phil Ek to cover a medley of classic U2 jams: “Pride (In The Name Of Love),” “With Or Without You,&...

In January, Brooklyn Academy of Music announced that it would host a spring festival curated by the National’s Bryce and Aaron Dessner, and today that event, called Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (a reference to this Whitman poem), announced it’s full lineup. It goes down 5/3-5/5. And, yeah, if you’re into indie rock, skew...