Some unfinished songs from Lisbon came my way early this year, back when NPR Music was trying to put a lineup together for SXSW in March. We'd heard that The Walkmen had been putting the finishing touches on a new record, we liked the demos, and the band was going to perform with a horn section -- we were sold. Live, the new material The Walkmen performed onstage at Stubbs was appealing -- and I w
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