The Walkmen’s Voice Meets Vampire Weekend’s Architect in Detroit Tonight — 10 Years After Their Classic
DETROIT — Ten years ago, the Walkmen’s Hamilton Leithauser and Vampire Weekend co-founder Rostam Batmanglij made one of the decade’s most beloved indie records together. Tonight, they’re finally touring it together — and the only stop anywhere near Toledo is an hour up I-75.
Leithauser and Rostam bring The Joint Tour to Saint Andrew’s Hall in Detroit tonight, Saturday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m., with singer-songwriter Johanna Samuels opening. It’s the pair’s first-ever full tour together, an 11-date run that kicked off Nov. 5 in Washington, D.C. — the shared hometown of both musicians — and wraps Nov. 19 in Los Angeles.
The occasion is the 10th anniversary of their 2016 collaborative album I Had a Dream That You Were Mine, the Glassnote record that gave us “A 1000 Times” and “In a Black Out.”
For millennial indie fans in Toledo, this is the rare reunion that lives up to the hype: the voice behind the Walkmen’s “The Rat” and the architect behind Vampire Weekend’s early sound, on one stage, in a 1,000-cap room. Saint Andrew’s Hall, 431 E. Congress St. in downtown Detroit.
Detroit is stacked this weekend — Manchester Orchestra is at the Masonic Temple tonight too (see our Manchester Orchestra preview), and The Neighbourhood hits Little Caesars Arena next Thursday (details here) — but if you can only pick one room tonight, this is the one.
Tickets are available through Ticketmaster, with resale from around $22. Show details are listed on Michigan.org — check before you drive up.
Photo: Tom Purves, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.