Specious Logic

Artist: The Walkmen
Venue: Webster Hall, NYC, NY
Date: May 24, 2006

My last show for a while started off rather disappointingly. The opener was Mazarin (explicitly stated as being “of Philadelphia” — who knows where the one is from, or why neither has changed their name). In any case, their sound was a little too ordinary (with […]

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Artist: The Walkmen
Title: Wake Up
Date: May 1, 2005

What’s the big deal about higher fidelity recordings anyways? Some of the best recordings I have are in bad quality (some due to technical limitations of the time, and some on purpose). The sound of The Walkmen is not actually old-timey per se, but something about the recording […]

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