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New York’s The Walkmen took the stage at ACL on the Xbox 360 stage just after peak heatstroke hours (although the sun on this first day of this year’s festival was a lot more forgiving than previous), somewhere around 3:30pm, and kicked into gear with a relaxed island feel. “Louisiana”, the first single from 2006’s A Hundred Miles Off, soothed the crowd with singer Hamilton Leithauser’s lazy afternoon vocals and acoustic guitar. Horn blasts from the four-person section rose over top and mixed with the beach-drinking beat and keys to create a ripe fun-in-the-sun atmosphere as our star peaked out between the clouds periodically through a veil of strung together cloud puffs. A myriad of shakers, rolling and stomping percussion, guitar twinkling, breezy triangle, and a mix of light and heavy flows followed. The Walkmen played a tune in the works from their forthcoming sixth studio album to be released next year, which was a slow and easy ramble and whistler. Then, they broke into Bows + Arrows’ “The Rat” and the group went right into the full-blown, rocking, dance-inciting, guitar-driven favorite for a knee-bouncing crowd shaking their hands in the air and singing the memorable chorus.

New York’s Coheed and Cambria has been ascending the throne of 21st century prog-rock with each successive record, gaining admirers in the not-so-dissimilar realms of metal music and comic books, and acquiring a fan base that boasts a wide ranging age demographic as evidenced by the crowd at their set at Lollapalooza this year. The Amory Wars saga, the brainchild of singer, guitarist, and songwriter Claudio Sanchez, is the running theme throughout their albums and takes us to Heaven’s Fence where we learn about Claudio Kilgannon (“The Crowing”) and the tragic tale of his parents Coheed Kilgannon (“The Beast”) and Cambria Kilgannon (“The Knowledge”). The story ended in their fourth album Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World For Tomorrow; the upcoming record will bring us back to the very beginning. We touched base with Sanchez over email last week to check up on his influences and for an update on the much anticipated fifth full-length.