Boston Calling is a brand-new music festival that will hold its first installment in Boston’s City Hall Plaza 5/25-26, and it’s got a lineup that leans heavily toward accessible, middle-of-the-road indie and alt-rock. The National will co-headline alongside the suddenly omnipresent Fun., and the lineup also features the Shins...

On Saturday 11/17, some of indie rock’s most prominent names got together to stage a benefit for victims of Hurricane Sandy. Real Estate, Vampire Weekend, Devendra Banhart, the Walkmen’s Hamilton Leithauser, Walter Martin, and Peter Bauer, Cass McCombs, and Dirty Projectors’ David Longstreth, Amber Coffman, and Hale...

The Walkmen will be kicking off the new year by hitting the road for a short tour with Father John Misty

The Walkmen are releasing a limited edition 7-inch single

A few months ago, the Walkmen released their absolutely excellent new album Heaven, a blissful LP about the pleasures of easing into middle age. And now the band is letting us hear a few of the songs from the Heaven sessions that didn’t make the album — though god knows they could’ve. “Dance With Your [...]