The Walkmen's Peter Matthew Bauer Fall Dates

Peter Matthew Bauer is a rock & roll singer and musician with a debut record called “Liberation!” out everywhere now on Mexican Summer and Memphis Industries. It’s been called a “cult classic in waiting” by UNCUT magazine and has been universally embraced in the press. As an album, Bauer uses Liberation! as an opportunity to welcome the rest of the world into his personal history of a childhood spent living in ashrams, and a life shaped by the constant presence of religion and mythology amidst uncertainty. What Peter has learned, and what he imparts both on the title track and across the eleven songs that make up Liberation!, is a riot of experiential notions. “Liberation, as the idea of the record, relates to belief in its various incarnations. In a way I’m trying to poke fun at it; this Western idea of heaven, this Eastern idea that it will take a hundred lifetimes, or a thousand lifetimes to get somewhere better. You can be mad about these things, but you can also arrive at some sort of strange, joyful experience right now without believing anything.”

The constant changes in scenery that inspired Peter Bauer to write this record highlight a greater truth about the songs on Liberation! – that they exist on multiple levels, they take on meanings other than their intention the moment they left the studio, joined by what he’s phrased in the record’s finale as “the mystery of of it all.” Conceived largely on a sojourn all across Europe, Liberation! was recorded at a factory space in the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia with friends Quentin Stoltzfus, Christopher Colbert, Matt Oliver, and Matthew Barrick taking part in the recording and mixing. All of this work accounts for Liberation’s saturated, homemade feel, as Peter’s music fuses a wide swath of influences and technique into an assured, anthemic statement in the palette of rock ‘n’ roll. Liberation! is the soundtrack of one man’s journey inside himself, in preparation for the rest of the world to follow.

Tour Dates

10.02 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg #
10.03 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club #
10.04 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer #
10.07 - Boston , MA - Paradise Rock Club #
10.09 - Toronto, ON - Lee's Palace #
10.11 - Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre #
10.12 - St. Louis, MO - The Ready Room *
10.13 - Nashville, TN - Marathon Music Works *
10.15 - Asheville, NC - The Orange Peel *
10.16 - Atlanta, GA - The Tabernacle *

# w/ Delta Spirit
* w/ The War On Drugs