#26: Ryan Walsh - Instrumental Breakthroughs by Tam Integration
Ryan H. Walsh is a musician, journalist and video/collage artist. His debut book, Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968 (Penguin Press), received rave reviews from The New Yorker, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, and was a New York Times end-of-year Critics’ Pick. Since publication, Walsh has toured internationally, speaking at The Belfast Literary Festival, The Irish Literary Festival in London, and locally at The Harvard Club, Boston Public Library, Google, Northeastern, and Suffolk University. His writing has appeared in the Boston Globe, Vice, Pitchfork, and Boston Magazine, and Walsh was a finalist for the Missouri School of Journalism’s City and Regional Magazine Award in 2015. His rock band Hallelujah the Hills has won high praise from Spin, Rolling Stone, and Pitchfork; declared “Boston legends” by the Boston Globe; and toured the U.S. extensively over their 15-year existence. Their latest album, 2019’s I’m You, was declared “Album of the Year” by Glorious Noise, “a lyrical masterpiece,” by Metro, and reviewed 9/10 at The Line of Best Fit. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts at the end of dead end street, the metaphorical suggestion of which is always a nearby threat but never manifesting in any serious way.