{"id":806408,"date":"2020-04-15T08:23:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T14:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=984204"},"modified":"2020-04-15T08:23:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T14:23:12","slug":"the-walkmens-walter-martin-nationals-matt-berninger-drop-bonkers-covid-19-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/the-walkmens-walter-martin-nationals-matt-berninger-drop-bonkers-covid-19-song\/","title":{"rendered":"The Walkmen\u2019s Walter Martin, National\u2019s Matt Berninger Drop Bonkers COVID-19 Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/matt-berninger-walter-martin.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Walter Martin and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-national\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-national\" data-tag=\"the-national\">the National<\/a>\u2019s Matt Berninger teamed up for \u201cQuarantine Boogie (Loco),\u201d a hilarious new track about life in self-isolation during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/coronavirus\/\" id=\"auto-tag_coronavirus\" data-tag=\"coronavirus\">coronavirus<\/a> pandemic. The former Walkmen member is asking for donations to <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.cityharvest.org\/site\/TR\/SkipLunch\/General?pg=team&amp;fr_id=1150&amp;team_id=2833\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">City Harvest<\/a>, which will help feed New York City\u2019s children and families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was feeling weird\/ I had a half-assed beard\/ As I\u2019d just about cleared a month of quarantine,\u201d Martin sings, as Berninger pops up on backing vocals. \u201cMy savings got erased\/ I can\u2019t touch my face\/ And the only place I feel safe is in a webinar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave a laugh on me and join my team at City Harvest to help feed NYC school kids in need during this crisis,\u201d Martin <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WaltRMartin\/status\/1250410537973923847?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> of the track. \u201cSpecial thanks to my wonderful and patient wife Melissa who worked with our daughters on their schoolwork while I made this ridiculous song in the basement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martin began 2020 with the release of his album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waltermartinmusic.com\/albums\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The World at Night<\/em><\/a>, his fourth solo LP since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-walkmen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-walkmen\" data-tag=\"the-walkmen\">the Walkmen<\/a> disbanded in 2013. He described the record as \u201ca sort of storybook album about fear and weakness and family and pain \u2014 with plenty of love and hope mixed in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martin recently joined Berninger and Phoebe Bridges for the recording of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-national-matt-berninger-phoebe-bridgers-duet-898986\/\">Walking On a String<\/a>,\u201d which was featured in Zach Galifianakis\u2019 Netflix film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-news\/between-two-ferns-the-movie-trailer-879358\/\"><em>Between Two Ferns: The Movie<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/walter-martin-matt-berninger-drop-quarantine-boogie-984204\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walter Martin and the National\u2019s Matt Berninger teamed up for \u201cQuarantine Boogie (Loco),\u201d a hilarious new track about life in self-isolation during the coronavirus pandemic. The former Walkmen member is asking for donations to City Harvest, which will help feed New York City\u2019s children and families. \u201cI was feeling weird\/ I had a half-assed beard\/ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-14 02:31:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}