The Walkmen

The Walkmen formed in 2000 following the resignation of two former Washington formations, Jonathan Fire Eater and The Recoys. Before that, and thanks to the funds raised from their contract with Dreamworks Records, JFE members had the opportunity to invest in a local in New York to make it a studio they would name Marcata Studios. Advertising campaigns for the latter mentioned the taste of its owners for artists such as Joy Division, Talking Heads, The Specials and Royal Trux. To return to the band itself, the band will release a first eponymous EP in 2001 via Startime International, before attacking serious things the following year with a first album: Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone. Two years later, his successor Bows + Arrows will definitely launch the band's career with the singles "The Rat" and "Little House Of Savages", via Record Collection, a Columbia label. Not to mention the fact that these titles will end up in The O.C. Two years later still, The Walkmen will publish A Hundred Miles Off, as well as Pussy Cats, which recaptures the album by title of Harry Nilsson and John Lennon. A tribute to their studio, which will have to be surrendered following the acquisition of the building by Columbia University. 2008 will see the release of You&Me , whose release funds, first, and digital via Amie Street, will be donated to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. At the same rate of publication, The Walkmen will give birth to Lisbon, its sixth opus, in 2010; Then from Heaven, in 2012, to celebrate the group's 10th anniversary, via Fat Possum both times. Walter Martin : Orchestra/Piano Matt Barrick : Battery Paul Maroon : Guitar Hamilton Leithauser : Song Peter Bauer : Bass