in early March with Paul Meany of Mutemath working on a song called 'I'm Good,'” Maiman says. Like most Americans, they were unaware of how the following year would be affected. The band was recording late in 2019 when they began hearing reports of a potent new flu strain that was sweeping through Asia and Europe. We're always pulling songs from different eras of our vault.” “It's not always clear when we begin recording what's going to feel right for the album. “We write a lot of songs for our records,” says Petricca. “The aesthetic of the record has radiated out from 'Can You Handle My Love.'”īy their account, Walk the Moon began preparatory work on Heights as early as 2017, which continued into the following year. “It's been the alpha dog, the one calling the shots,” Maiman concurs. “I think 'Can You Handle My Love' has been the boss bitch of the record,” Petricca says. The band has leaked several tracks ahead of Heights' release, and the best of them may be “Can You Handle My Love,” a song bristling with Walk the Moon's patented anthemic energy, in the vein of “Shut Up and Dance,” “Different Colors” and “One Foot.” Coincidentally, the song helped shape the rest of Heights. 12 release of their fifth album, Heights. Things should go more smoothly when Walk the Moon returns home for two shows at Bogart's Oct. “Our lighting guy set off the fog early that day before they shut off the smoke detectors,” guitarist Eli Maiman tells CityBeat. The band's gig was notable for the arrival of the fire department during rehearsal. The last time Walk the Moon was home for a show dates back to their MidPoint Music Festival appearance at the Taft Theatre after the release of 2017's What If Nothing. The song became a global phenomenon, reaching the top 5 of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart in the United States and the top 10 in countries around the world. As credits rolled and Meyers did the show's outro, Petricca grabbed the host and humped his leg like a hormonal macaque. Walk the Moon appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers to debut “Shut Up and Dance,” the first single from their third album, Talking is Hard. RCA Records came calling and Walk the Moon signed on the dotted line.įast forward to late summer 2014. The band, formed by Nicholas Petricca at Kenyon College in 2006, was already on an upward trajectory after the 2011 success of the single “Anna Sun.” Esquire magazine touted it among the "30 Summer Songs Every Man Should Listen To," MTV and Seventeen magazine cited it as the song of the summer, and the Strokes' Albert Hammond Jr. It's been a wild decade since Cincinnati's Walk the Moon became the world's Walk the Moon. We love you & we can’t wait to see you this weekend
Refunds are also available at point of purchase. The Saturday show is still very much on and we have worked with the venue so that anyone who has tickets for October 3 can come to the show on October 2.
We are so sad to announce that due to circumstances beyond our control, we have to cancel the Sunday, October 3rd show at Bogart’s. UPDATE: Walk the Moon has canceled their Oct. Cincinnati's Walk the Moon plays Bogart's Oct.