
Once a year, the Walkmen leader Hamilton Leithauser plays a solo residency at the Café Carlyle, a cabaret bar on New York’s Upper East Side. Leithauser just released his new solo album This Side Of The Island, and he’s playing Café Carlyle shows all month long. It’s his seventh residency at the venue and the longest he’s ever done. Leithauser promises a bunch of surprise guests at those shows; he’s been around long enough to have tons of connections across the musical spectrum. A couple of recent shows have featured guests like Dinosaur Jr. leader J Mascis and star singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers — not together, sadly.