The Walkmen ended a decade of “extreme hiatus” Tuesday with a performance of “The Rat” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. The performance opened with the Bows + Arrows song’s tremulous guitars and carnival organ rattles as frontman Hamilton Leithauser keens, “You’ve got a neeerve to be asking a favor.” The quintet played with youthful energy, the only signs of the years in between showing in their unscruffy haircuts. When they finished, Leithauser held up a peace V, and keyboardist Walter Martin waved at the crowd.
The performance is even more remarkable,...
The performance is even more remarkable,...
- 4/19/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
New York City indie rock veterans the Walkmen have added more dates to a reunion run that will find them playing their first shows in 10 years.
The band previously announced their plans to reunite with five concerts at Webster Hall in New York City, April 24 through 28 (those have already sold out). They’ve now scheduled shows in Philadelphia (May 2 and 3), Chicago (May 19 and 20), and Washington D.C. (May 25 and 26).
Tickets for the newly announced shows will go on sale this Friday, Dec. 9 at 10 a.m. local time. Fans can also...
The band previously announced their plans to reunite with five concerts at Webster Hall in New York City, April 24 through 28 (those have already sold out). They’ve now scheduled shows in Philadelphia (May 2 and 3), Chicago (May 19 and 20), and Washington D.C. (May 25 and 26).
Tickets for the newly announced shows will go on sale this Friday, Dec. 9 at 10 a.m. local time. Fans can also...
- 12/5/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
How a Middle School Violin Teacher Became the Secret Sauce for the Music to HBO’s ‘Last Movie Stars’
Singer, songwriter, former frontman of indie rock’s “The Walkmen” and now composer, Hamilton Leithauser can’t play the horns, but that didn’t deter him from accepting a gig to put music to the HBO six-part series “The Last Movie Stars.”-
Helmed by Ethan Hawke and executive-produced by Martin Scorses, the docu-series chronicles the love story of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward alongside their simultaneously flourishing Hollywood careers. Hawke enlisted a host of well-known voices — including Karen Allen, George Clooney, Oscar Isaac, Latanya Richardson Jackson, Zoe Kazan, Laura Linney and Sam Rockwell — to narrate the tale. It was also Hawke who called on Leithauser to compose both score music and songs for “Last Movie Stars.”
“1000 Times,” “Rough Going” (I Won’t Let Up) and “Here They Come” were among the songs Leithauser chose to include. In a conversation with Variety, he shares his process in scoring the series...
Helmed by Ethan Hawke and executive-produced by Martin Scorses, the docu-series chronicles the love story of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward alongside their simultaneously flourishing Hollywood careers. Hawke enlisted a host of well-known voices — including Karen Allen, George Clooney, Oscar Isaac, Latanya Richardson Jackson, Zoe Kazan, Laura Linney and Sam Rockwell — to narrate the tale. It was also Hawke who called on Leithauser to compose both score music and songs for “Last Movie Stars.”
“1000 Times,” “Rough Going” (I Won’t Let Up) and “Here They Come” were among the songs Leithauser chose to include. In a conversation with Variety, he shares his process in scoring the series...
- 7/27/2022
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
HBO Max will premiere its six-part original documentary from CNN Films, “The Last Movie Stars,” on July 21. The docuseries centers on Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, and explores their personas, talent and love story. Four-time Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke (“Seymour: An Introduction”) directs, with Academy Award-winning director, writer and producer Martin Scorsese as executive producer.
The docuseries incorporates an abandoned project that Newman commissioned from friend and screenwriter Stewart Stern, who interviewed close friends, family, and artistic collaborators including Elia Kazan, Sidney Lumet, Karl Malden, Sidney Pollack, Gore Vidal, Jacqueline Witte and Joanne Woodward for a planned memoir. Newman was also interviewed by Stern, and discussed his childhood, his first marriage with Witte, his romance and life with Woodward and more.
Actors Karen Allen, George Clooney, Oscar Isaac, Latanya Richardson Jackson, Zoe Kazan, Laura Linney, Sam Rockwell and others voice parts of the original transcribed interviews. Hawke also interviewed some of Newman’s daughters,...
The docuseries incorporates an abandoned project that Newman commissioned from friend and screenwriter Stewart Stern, who interviewed close friends, family, and artistic collaborators including Elia Kazan, Sidney Lumet, Karl Malden, Sidney Pollack, Gore Vidal, Jacqueline Witte and Joanne Woodward for a planned memoir. Newman was also interviewed by Stern, and discussed his childhood, his first marriage with Witte, his romance and life with Woodward and more.
Actors Karen Allen, George Clooney, Oscar Isaac, Latanya Richardson Jackson, Zoe Kazan, Laura Linney, Sam Rockwell and others voice parts of the original transcribed interviews. Hawke also interviewed some of Newman’s daughters,...
- 6/21/2022
- by Sasha Urban and Wilson Chapman
- Variety Film + TV
HBO Max will debut all six-parts of Ethan Hawke’s documentary “The Last Movie Stars,” which premiered at SXSW and the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, on July 21. The series explores the personal lives and careers of actors Joanna Woodward and Paul Newman. Hawke, who previously helmed the documentary “Seymour: An Introduction,” directs all six entries in the CNN Films docuseries while Martin Scorsese serves as executive producer.
Central to “The Last Movie Stars” is a long-abandoned project that Newman commissioned from friend and screenwriter Stewart Stern. At Newman’s request, Stern interviewed close friends, family and artistic collaborators like Elia Kazan, Sidney Lumet, Karl Malden, Sydney Pollack, Gore Vidal, Jackie Witte, Woodward for a planned memoir. Newman was also interviewed by Stern to discuss his youth, his first marriage with Witte, his romance and life with Woodward, his personal demons, and the loss of his son, Scott.
“It...
Central to “The Last Movie Stars” is a long-abandoned project that Newman commissioned from friend and screenwriter Stewart Stern. At Newman’s request, Stern interviewed close friends, family and artistic collaborators like Elia Kazan, Sidney Lumet, Karl Malden, Sydney Pollack, Gore Vidal, Jackie Witte, Woodward for a planned memoir. Newman was also interviewed by Stern to discuss his youth, his first marriage with Witte, his romance and life with Woodward, his personal demons, and the loss of his son, Scott.
“It...
- 6/21/2022
- by Brandon Katz
- The Wrap
Ethan Hawke is to direct and Martin Scorsese exec produce a celebration of Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman’s lives for CNN+ and HBO Max.
Featuring transcribed readings of interviews read by the likes of George Clooney, Oscar Isaac, Laura Linney and Zoe Kazan, The Last Movie Stars will celebrate the enigmatic personas, incandescent talent and love story of the two actors, who occupy a unique space in the Hollywood pantheon.
The project emerged from Woodward and Newman’s daughters’ approaching Hawke during the early days of the pandemic, at which point they asked him to direct a doc about their parents from Nook House Productions.
Central to the film is a long-abandoned project that Newman, who died in 2008, commissioned from friend and screenwriter Stewart Stern. At Newman’s request, Stern interviewed the likes of Woodward, Elia Kazan, Sidney Lumet, Karl Malden, Sidney Pollack, Gore Vidal, Jacqueline Witte and others for a planned memoir.
Featuring transcribed readings of interviews read by the likes of George Clooney, Oscar Isaac, Laura Linney and Zoe Kazan, The Last Movie Stars will celebrate the enigmatic personas, incandescent talent and love story of the two actors, who occupy a unique space in the Hollywood pantheon.
The project emerged from Woodward and Newman’s daughters’ approaching Hawke during the early days of the pandemic, at which point they asked him to direct a doc about their parents from Nook House Productions.
Central to the film is a long-abandoned project that Newman, who died in 2008, commissioned from friend and screenwriter Stewart Stern. At Newman’s request, Stern interviewed the likes of Woodward, Elia Kazan, Sidney Lumet, Karl Malden, Sidney Pollack, Gore Vidal, Jacqueline Witte and others for a planned memoir.
- 1/11/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Fleet Foxes’ rustic neo-folk music and skybound harmonies loomed large over indie-ish rock in the early 2010s, not unlike the way Arcade Fire touched the mid-2000s or Pavement shaped the Nineties. Their last album, 2017’s correctly titled Crack-Up, was a stranger listen than usual for them, proggily ambitious and often opaquely sprawling. With Shore, their newly released fourth album, they’ve wandered back to the campfire, except only now it’s a world on fire: “We’re a long way from the past/I’ll be better off in a year in two,...
- 9/23/2020
- by Jon Dolan
- Rollingstone.com
Nicole Atkins slips into a hazy dream on “Mind Eraser,” the latest single from her upcoming LP Italian Ice, out May 29th.
“If at first thought says my mind erased/I never want, I never wanna leave again,” Atkins sings over dizzy, whirring string instrumentation. “When you spend time in a lion’s cage/You never go, you never go to sleep again.” She readies herself for the chorus: “These dreams, I know too well/Am I sleeping? It’s hard to tell.”
“Mind Eraser” was co-written by My Morning...
“If at first thought says my mind erased/I never want, I never wanna leave again,” Atkins sings over dizzy, whirring string instrumentation. “When you spend time in a lion’s cage/You never go, you never go to sleep again.” She readies herself for the chorus: “These dreams, I know too well/Am I sleeping? It’s hard to tell.”
“Mind Eraser” was co-written by My Morning...
- 5/8/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Hamilton Leithauser gets a haircut from Maggie Rogers in the teaser for “Isabella.” The singer-songwriter also announced a new album, The Loves of Your Life, out April 10th via Glassnote Records.
The clip follows the video for “Here They Come,” in which Leithauser took a brutal beating from Ethan Hawke after playing the actor his new song. He shows up to meet Maggie Rogers with a bandage across his face from the altercation. “As I was already on my way to play my song ‘Isabella’ for my writer-musician friend who happens to be pretty stylish,...
The clip follows the video for “Here They Come,” in which Leithauser took a brutal beating from Ethan Hawke after playing the actor his new song. He shows up to meet Maggie Rogers with a bandage across his face from the altercation. “As I was already on my way to play my song ‘Isabella’ for my writer-musician friend who happens to be pretty stylish,...
- 3/6/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Nicole Atkins takes chances with the sleek new song, “Domino.” The track is the second single off the singer-songwriter’s upcoming album Italian Ice, out April 17th on Single Lock Records.
Inspired by Prince, the Rolling Stones’ “Miss You” and the gritty glamour of Atkins’ hometown of Asbury Park, New Jersey, the disco-tinged track relies on a heavy groove to deliver the message: “I’m not gonna play/safe and sound/when the world comes tumbling down.”
Atkins dropped the album’s lead single “Captain” last month, which featured Spoon...
Inspired by Prince, the Rolling Stones’ “Miss You” and the gritty glamour of Atkins’ hometown of Asbury Park, New Jersey, the disco-tinged track relies on a heavy groove to deliver the message: “I’m not gonna play/safe and sound/when the world comes tumbling down.”
Atkins dropped the album’s lead single “Captain” last month, which featured Spoon...
- 3/6/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins unveiled a new love song, “Captain,” from her upcoming album, Italian Ice, out April 17th via Single Lock Records.
The track is a rich, country-tinged ballad that boasts backing vocals from Spoon’s Britt Daniel and finds Atkins offering a struggling partner a helping hand: “And when you’re found a wreck,” she sings, “I’ll pull you on deck/I can be your captain for once.”
“Captain” also arrives with a video that finds Atkins delivering a delightfully hammy performance of the song as if she...
The track is a rich, country-tinged ballad that boasts backing vocals from Spoon’s Britt Daniel and finds Atkins offering a struggling partner a helping hand: “And when you’re found a wreck,” she sings, “I’ll pull you on deck/I can be your captain for once.”
“Captain” also arrives with a video that finds Atkins delivering a delightfully hammy performance of the song as if she...
- 2/11/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Ethan Hawke beats up Hamilton Leithauser in the hilarious new teaser for “Here They Come,” his first new single since 2017.
The clip opens with the singer sauntering past Lexington Avenue in a cossack hat, boombox in hand. “All of the songs on my new record are about people,” he states in a voiceover. “The song ‘Here They Come’ is about a friend who tends to run from his problems.”
“I love him to death, but when the going gets tough, he tends to just cut and run,” he continues. “The...
The clip opens with the singer sauntering past Lexington Avenue in a cossack hat, boombox in hand. “All of the songs on my new record are about people,” he states in a voiceover. “The song ‘Here They Come’ is about a friend who tends to run from his problems.”
“I love him to death, but when the going gets tough, he tends to just cut and run,” he continues. “The...
- 2/7/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
For her latest guest duet on her Norman Fucking Rockwell Tour, Lana Del Rey brought former Walkmen vocalist Hamilton Leithauser onstage at Nashville’s Municipal Auditorium to perform a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright.” Catch a video of the performance below.
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Lana Del Rey and Hamilton Leithauser singing Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright” at Nashville Municipal Auditorium.
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Lana Del Rey and Hamilton Leithauser singing Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright” at Nashville Municipal Auditorium.
- 11/20/2019
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
“When I used to go out, I would know everyone I saw / Now I go out alone, if I go out at all.”
That’s one of the lines Hamilton Leithauser caustically howled in The Walkmen’s defining hit, “The Rat.” But invective aside, as part of that group, Leithauser built one of indie rock’s sturdiest discographies, with each release — before their good-natured but “pretty extreme” hiatus, announced in 2013 — providing a textbook example of how a band could continue to evolve and push boundaries with each release. So it comes as no surprise that Leithauser has continued to do...
That’s one of the lines Hamilton Leithauser caustically howled in The Walkmen’s defining hit, “The Rat.” But invective aside, as part of that group, Leithauser built one of indie rock’s sturdiest discographies, with each release — before their good-natured but “pretty extreme” hiatus, announced in 2013 — providing a textbook example of how a band could continue to evolve and push boundaries with each release. So it comes as no surprise that Leithauser has continued to do...
- 1/15/2018
- by Alex Heigl
- PEOPLE.com
Rostam Batmanglij left Vampire Weekend last year, but he didn’t head for the beach to relax: The multi-instrumentalist, producer, and songwriter had already released some solo material, formed a duo with the singer of Ra Ra Riot called Discovery, collaborated with The Walkmen’s Hamilton Leithauser on an excellent…
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- 9/14/2017
- by Josh Modell
- avclub.com
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”…
James Ransone: Movie: Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut is an absolute masterpiece. 15 years ago it seemed like Kubrick was a washed up recluse, but he was just so far ahead of the curb. If you want proof just read some recent articles on Jeffery Epstein‘s sex scandal. Music: Godspeed You! Black Emperor “Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven“. I liked them in the late 90s but I didn’t realize how brilliant that record is. The tension and release in that record is close to orgiastic. I also liked Hamilton leithauser’s debut record. Book: “The Accidental Universe” by Alan lightman. He makes really complex physics accessible for dummy actors like me. It’s actually beautifully written as well.
Lavallee: In Tangerine, you take on the role of Chester. Could you describe your character’s view...
James Ransone: Movie: Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut is an absolute masterpiece. 15 years ago it seemed like Kubrick was a washed up recluse, but he was just so far ahead of the curb. If you want proof just read some recent articles on Jeffery Epstein‘s sex scandal. Music: Godspeed You! Black Emperor “Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven“. I liked them in the late 90s but I didn’t realize how brilliant that record is. The tension and release in that record is close to orgiastic. I also liked Hamilton leithauser’s debut record. Book: “The Accidental Universe” by Alan lightman. He makes really complex physics accessible for dummy actors like me. It’s actually beautifully written as well.
Lavallee: In Tangerine, you take on the role of Chester. Could you describe your character’s view...
- 2/6/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
For the last few years, I’ve taken it upon myself in my capacity as Sos co-founder and eternal DJ to gather up some of my favorite tracks of the year, along with excerpts of dialogue and scoring from some of my favorite films (and, this year, TV series!) of the year, and cram it into a mix that could fit onto a hypothetical CD-r. But since this has been the year of the mixtape (hello Guardians of the Galaxy, Mommy, and Boyhood), and since there’s been such an overwhelming bounty of great music to choose from, I opted for a “C120″ format – two “sides,” one hour each. Since non-film music is the one area of pop culture Sound on Sight will (hopefully) never devote a subsection to, it’s the one instance I allow myself every year to flex my geekery in this area.
Lots of really great...
Lots of really great...
- 12/22/2014
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
Six months ago, the Walkmen surprised their fans by announcing they were, if not necessarily breaking up, taking a "pretty extreme hiatus.” The band members remain friends and even staged a mini-reunion not long after their announcement, but for the moment they committed to focusing on their own projects. The most high-profile of these solo records comes from lead singer Hamilton Leithauser. Out today, Black Hours finds Leithauser's songwriting to be a bit more stylistically diverse and relaxed, but when he's singing, it's undeniably the same guy who fronted the Walkmen to much acclaim for more than a decade. So Vulture got Walkmen guitarist Paul Maroon, who also plays on Black Hours, to interview Leithauser. They talk about books, vocal ranges, and which songs seemed liked they might've been written for the Walkmen.Paul Maroon: Do you ever go up to where you used to live, up in Manhattan?...
- 6/4/2014
- by Paul Maroon
- Vulture
Big news! We here at Vulture will be doing our first-ever live concert webcast tomorrow night, and it should be a great show. Hamilton Leithauser — lead singer of the fantastic indie rock band the Walkmen — will be doing a rare solo performance at Joe's Pub, and we'll have an exclusive stream of the concert in its entirety. Just head over to our homepage at 7:30 p.m. Et tomorrow (Wednesday, April 16) and rock out.
- 4/15/2014
- by Vulture Editors
- Vulture
Hamilton Leithauser, natty singer for The Walkmen, is reportedly working on a solo album with members of Vampire Weekend, Fleet Foxes, and, umm, The Walkmen. Pitchfork is reporting (via Kicking The Habit) that Leithauser is recording with Rostam Batmanglij (Vampire Weekend), Morgan Henderson (Fleet Foxes), and Paul Maroon (The Walkmen)—as well as singer-songwriter Richard Swift, who we'll just go ahead and assume is producing as well, because he does that a lot and also plays in The Shins. With that much talent on board, it's bound to be pretty fantastic. Speaking of fantastic and The Walkmen (segue ...
- 8/22/2013
- avclub.com
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