Walk the Moon Decide to Take an Extensive Hiatus from Concerts and Creative Productions
STROLL THE MOON Grant Spanier*
Walk the Moon, the alt-rockers behind the hit track “Shut Up and Dance,” have actually revealed that they’re taking place uncertain respite.
On Friday (July 14), the Walk the Moon frontman Nicholas Petricca damaged the information to followers in a psychological 11-minute video clip.
“The time has come for us to take a good long break from touring and making records together,” the keyboardist/singer said in the opening of the clip, which was uploaded on the Cincinnati-based band’s main YouTube network. “When we do reconvene, that will be a glorious day. The truth is, we don’t know when that’s going to be.”
Petricca kept in mind that he and also Walk the Moon bandmates, guitar player Eli Maiman and also drummer Sean Waugaman, are “filled with love, gratitude, appreciation and some heartache” as the team enters into hibernation.
“It is an enormous act of love to carefully lift something like this from the center of our lives and place it gently to the side, out of focus, and let it rest for a moment,” Petricca claimed. “It’s a choice we made powerfully to follow our truth, to make space for new creations, for family, to serve our well-being and, in the long run, even serve the well-being of Walk the Moon, like hibernation, to hopefully come back one day stronger than before.”
In the video clip, Petricca exposed that Walk the Moon’s last performance (scheduled for Aug. 12) will certainly be livestreamed which the band intends to launch brand-new songs. The frontman likewise teased that he’s working with a “solo project universe” which Maiman has “a new musical collaboration” heading.
Walk the Moon’s self-titled launching came to a head at No. 36 on the Billboard 200 cds graph in 2012. Two years later on, the rock act dropped their outbreak hit “Shut Up and Dance,” which came to a head at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 graph. The team’s newest cd, Heights, shown up in 2021.
Watch Walk the Moon’s respite statement listed below.

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