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Watch Butch Walker’s Video for “Synthesizers”
Watch Matthew McConaughey reprise his Dazed and Confused role and sing along to Butch Walker’s lyrics while cruising chicks and playing the trumpet.
Butch Walker Plays the Exit/In
With his newest album, The Spade, completed and available to the masses, Butch Walker has taken his sweaty pop-rock circus back on the road. Over the weekend, Butch Walker and the Black Widows hit the stage at Nashville’s Exit/In to commemorate the third stop of their tour, and the singer/songwriter unofficially challenged his fans to [...]
Rewind: tUnE-yArDs, Butch Walker, Tom Waits, Milo Greene
In case you missed it…
tUnE-yArDs premiered her self-directed video for “Gangsta.” It features a flashlight, a train ride, and… hippies dancing in black and white? Sure.
You can watch it on YouTube.
Tom Waits gave us a new one from his forthcoming, Bad As Me. “Back In the Crowd” offers Waits using his signature growl to croon [...]
Butch Walker, Author of Drinking With Strangers: Music Lessons From A Teenage Bullet Belt
Unless your favorite musician is writing about a heroin addiction or exposing personal journal entries, there’s no reason to actually read what he or she has to say, right? Wrong. Butch Walker, your bi-coastal neighborhood singer/songwriter/producer (and now author), is bringing you a little more than just his Tumblr to read. Drinking With Strangers: Music [...]
HYPE: The Spade, Butch Walker
Butch Walker‘s sixth studio album runs the gamut of pop music in just ten tracks. From anthemic pop/rock to pop-twinged Americana to Duran Duran references, the singer/songwriter/producer makes a play at reclaiming pop music in the form of his most-recent release, The Spade.
Butch Walker Debuts Video For “Summer Of ’89″
Butch Walker and the Black Widows premiere the Shane Valdez-directed music video for “Summer Of ’89,” starring Seymour Cassel and lots of ’80s references.
Album Reviews: Butch Walker, Thundercat, Cymbals Eat Guitars
»Album Reviews For Release Date: 08.30.11
by Joshua Krage
Lots of excellent musics this week, but Butch Walker gets the belt whenever he steps into the ring. Read on to see his competition:
Doug Benson
Blood Orange, Coastal Groove – the third and most accessible incarnation of Test Icicles/Lightspeed Champion mastermind Devonte Hynes, restraining his normal flurry of vocal [...]
Butch Walker Premieres Trailer For The Spade
Written and directed by Shane Valdés, Butch Walker debuted the bad ass, Mad Max-esque trailer for his upcoming album, The Spade, out August 30th.
Because Butch describes it best:
So what if me and Jake were good guys, Fran and Chris were bad guys, and we were post-apocolyptic motorcycle warriors and there was this girl… A hot [...]
Butch Walker Announces Tour Dates, Album News
Following his jump to independent label Dangerbird Records, Butch Walker and his band, The Black Widows, have been unveiling pieces of his forthcoming album The Spade as as introduction to its August 30th release. An amalgam of Butch-esque pop/rock anthems, The Spade offers ten new Butch Walker tracks, three of which are currently streaming online [...]
Butch Walker Premieres Video for “Pretty Melody”
In his new video, Butch Walker plays a half-robot superhero ninja who is on a journey to save the day. The kung fu epic is directed by Shane Valdés and pits Walker against Panic! At the Disco’s Brendon Urie and Spencer Smith, who play his ninja nemeses in the video — which is weird [...]