The Walkmen News

At a blacktop lot in McCarren Park on Saturday, a concert plugged along and the conversation turned to befuddlement: "Is this really a free show?" What amounted to the headlining sets of the fifth annual Northside Festival was a well-executed affair.

The weekend is now upon us, and we are confident that even these past two wonderful days are going to pale in comparison to what you will experience for the next two.

We get a lot of great free shows here in NYC but we have to admit this week of free all-ages shows Converse has lined up at San Francisco club Slim's later this month is pretty crazy .

When "Heaven," the seventh and latest studio album from New York-based indie rockers The Walkmen, works, it works well.

Vampire Weekend have released the official video for their new single Diane Young on Vevo, which features famous friends such as Santigold, Sky Ferreira and Dave1 of Chromeo.

Vampire Weekend have revealed the star-studded video for their new single 'Diane Young'. The video for the song, which is lifted from the band's latest album 'Modern Vampires of the City', features a number of famous friends including Sky Ferreira , Santigold and Dave Longstreth of Dirty Projectors.

Fans of the OFF Festival have already known for a while that The Walkmen , one of the most outstanding and underrated indie rock bands in the US, will be performing at this year's edition of the festival.

Boston's City Hall and its surrounding plaza have taken plenty of grief over the years, dismissed as unfortunate relics of the aptly named "brutalist" architectural movement.

There was no better place to be Saturday night than on a hill in Fort Worth, watching the dust whip behind The Walkmen while the sun set over the skyline.