Formed in New York City in 2000 from the ashes of The Recoys and Jonathan FireEater, The Walkmen fused indie rock grit with post-punk revival snarl, their raw sound a defiant outlier amid the early-2000s NYC scene's slicker Strokes-led revival.
Hamilton Leithauser's scorched-throat howl; echoing Bob…
28 roots·23 legacies
Roots trace the artists and scenes that shaped The Walkmen; legacies follow the artists carrying those ideas forward. The names below are the most-mentioned direct connections in the graph.
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Hamilton Leithauser, Matt Barrick, U2, Bob Dylan + 24 more
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6 releases·2004-2012
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2008