Austinist Giveaway: Tickets to See the Walkmen at La Zona Rosa, Monday

New York City indie rockers The Walkmen made it big with 2004's Bows and Arrows, an aggressive, exuberant, and borderline-theatrical production that ended up on tons of year-end "best of" lists. Over the past two years, the guys have gone through some big changes: the Harlem building housing their personal recording studio, dubbed Marcata (where B&A was born), was bought out by Columbia University, in the school's ever-accelerating expansion north of Morningside Heights. After touring exhaustively and playing on both The O.C. and Letterman (twice), the lads fled to Inner Ear studios in Arlington, Virginia, to record their next album, A Hundred Miles Off, which was finally released last month. Richly textured and unceasingly emotive, the indie-rock album draws from influences as varied as reggae, psychedelia and punk, and mashes it all together behind a solid wall of sound.**

We'll bring you Austinist's interview with frontman Hamilton Leithauser on Monday, which also happens to be the same day they'll be playing at La Zona Rosa . If ya wanna go for free, fill out the form below and we'll draw a random winner.

[mp3] The Walkmen - "Another One Goes By"
[mp3] The Walkmen - "Louisiana"
[mp3] The Walkmen - "Rue the Day"

[part 1] [part 2] The Walkmen on NPR's Live Concert Series, 5/25/06, from So Much Silence

[review] *Sixeyes reviews A Hundred Miles Off

[The Walkmen Homepage]
[The Walkmen on MySpace]

The Walkmen
La Zona Rosa
Monday, June 19th
[tickets]

** We originally said this in this month's issue of Austin Fit Magazine