Butch Walker will release Butch Walker As … Glenn on August 26th. Today he’s shared the new single “Holy Water Hangover.”
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Butch Walker Week
Once upon a time, I had a lot more time to write about music than I do now!
In 2013, about a year after I joined the staff at AbsolutePunk, I decided I’d take on a project called “Butch Walker Week.” The basic idea was that I’d go back and write about every Butch album, from the records with his former band Marvelous 3 up to his solo output, in the week leading up to his then-new EP Peachtree Battle. That project ended up running 11 reviews and about 16,000 words of text.
When Jason started reviving old AbsolutePunk content to post here on Chorus, I knew I wanted to resurrect this feature. Butch Walker has been one of the absolute constants in my musical evolution for the past 15 years. Getting to write about all his records back then was super fulfilling (and even earned some Twitter recognition from the man himself). Reading back through these reviews reminded me how much these albums meant to me (and how much they continue to mean to me now). So whether you’re familiar with Butch’s work or just thinking about listening to him for the first time, I hope you’ll give these old write-ups a look!
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Butch Walker will be the next guest on Brian Fallon’s Wednesday Instagram show.
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Butch Walker has shared a video version of his new album, American Love Story.
Butch Walker Announces New Album; Streams New Song
Butch Walker will release American Love Story on May 8th. Today he’s shared the new single “Pretty Crazy” and pre-orders are now up.
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Butch Walker Teases New Album
Butch Walker has begun teasing new music on his Instagram.
Andrew McMahon and Butch Walker Perform “Paper Rain”
Andrew McMahon and Butch Walker teamed up for a stripped down version of “Paper Rain.”
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Rumors of Green Day and Butch Walker Working Together
Some Green Day fans are starting to speculate that the band may be working with Butch Walker, the case has been laid out over at Green Day Authority:
In a post on Green Day’s Reddit forum, u/jinxpoetry dug deeper into the Butch Walker connection noting that in a video he posted to his Instagram from a recording studio, you can see what appears to be Tre Cool’s drum set (along with Walker singing “making records is very, very fun”), the video was liked by both Tre and his wife.
Butch Walker Covers “Eye of the Tiger”
Butch Walker has shared his cover of “Eye of the Tiger.” He’s also shared how the song came to be, and that it’s in a new commercial for trucks.
Review: Butch Walker – Sycamore Meadows
Few albums can put a smile on my face as quickly as Sycamore Meadows.
That’s probably an odd thing to say, since Sycamore Meadows is not, by most metrics, a happy album. Butch Walker’s fourth solo LP was birthed in part from the California wildfires that destroyed his home, most of his possessions, and the master tapes for every song he’d ever recorded up to that point. The songs catalog breakups, painful journeys of self-discovery, and the record business being irreversibly fucked. The album’s last track is a sobering piano ballad that bears one of the most emotional vocal performances Butch ever put on tape.
And yet, Sycamore Meadows still makes me smile.
Butch Walker Featured in Klipsch Series
Butch Walker is featured in the latest “Keepers of the Sound” video series for Klipsch audio.
Butch Walker – “Arden’s Song (After I’m Gone)”
A rare track from Butch Walker called “Arden’s Song (After I’m Gone)” has made its way online. The rumored story behind the song is pretty heartbreaking:
I don’t think he publicly released it, but it’s been shared around some of the Butch Walker fan communities on Facebook and stuff. Apparently he wrote it from the perspective of a little girl who died of a brain tumor. The girl’s uncle put it up on YouTube, so I’m guessing it’s a family Butch knows personally.
Butch Walker Announces New Tour
Butch Walker has unveiled some new tour dates and announced he’s working on a new album.
That being said, I’ve been kindly keeping my head buried in lots of projects, records being produced for other fun artists (Fall Out Boy, Weezer, The Struts, Rob Thomas, Andrew Mcmahon, Matt Nathanson, and more coming), doing a lot of charity shows for some causes near and dear, and..STARTING A NEW RECORD OF MY OWN!
Butch Walker Producing New Andrew McMahon Album
Butch Walker has confirmed that he’s working with Andrew McMahon on a new album:
Also, this beautiful record I’ve been producing for Andrew Mcmahon in the Wilderness is almost done, and the first song from it is “Ohio”. Hard to describe how much I love Andrew, his journey, and his work over the years. And mostly THIS SONG.
Butch Walker Releases Holiday Album
Butch Walker’s new holiday album is now up on Apple Music and Spotify.