Word: walkmen
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...first, it seems like any other club rock show. Kids, many from Harvard, decked out in the indie uniform of blazer, tousled hair and random vintage-tee, crowd the floor waiting for the band. But when they do, unlike the angsty, screaming opening act the National, the Walkmen look anything but rock ’n roll. Lead singer Hamilton Leithauser, tall, blonde, with classic Upper East Side prep school good looks, and the rest of the band, clad in similarly conservative sweaters and button down shirts, quietly tune...
Then Leithauser bellows, “Greetings, earthlings!” and the Walkmen start to play. They start to rock...
MUSIC | The Walkmen...
Fresh on the heels of their excellent second album Bows and Arrows, New York’s The Walkmen are ready to wow the good folks of Cambridge with their hauntingly ethereal rock. Mellow rockers The National open. The Autumn Rhythm also perform. Tickets $14. 18+. 9 p.m. The Middle East Downstairs...
...Walkmen sound achingly lonely, but underneath the forlorn abstraction of Bows and Arrows exists a strong sense of worth and grandiose awareness that saves them from ever falling into the grating woe-is-me whine that drowns lesser bands...