Following up on our post for "Cousins" The Song, here's "Cousins" the video: The single art's shot of the boys in a long alley doused in confetti fit the song's manically festive, church-belled punk racer, but is pretty much a... CONTINUE READING NEW VAMPIRE WEEKEND VIDEO - "COUSINS" »
Posted on November 19, 2009 in Video (22 comments)
Tags: I Was A King | Vampire Weekend
There is no such thing a perfect list. There are lists, however, that love the Streets more than other lists. Stateside we've seen Paste hand the top spot to one of Sufjan's states and Pitchfork gave the nod to Kid... CONTINUE READING NME'S 50 GREATEST ALBUMS OF THE '00S»
Posted on November 17, 2009 in List (138 comments)
Tags: Thee Oh Sees
With "Horchata," Vampire Weekend offered up an even-keeled primer to their forthcoming Contra alongside an expanded instrumental palette that featured marimba, kalimba, and an eBayed Yamaha VSS-30. For fans of Ezra's more frantically paced guitar picking there's the more familial... CONTINUE READING NEW VAMPIRE WEEKEND - "COUSINS"»
Posted on November 17, 2009 in MP3, Tour Dates (9 comments)
Tags: Thee Oh Sees | Vampire Weekend
Welcome to your music meme of the week. Turns out there are bands in Williamsburg, and New York is all over it. It's far from the first time our neighborhood's been dressed up and packaged for a major print publication,... CONTINUE READING NYMAG'S 40 SONGS THAT DEFINE THE BROOKLYN SOUND»
Posted on November 10, 2009 in List, MP3 (94 comments)
Tags: Dirty Projectors | Grizzly Bear | MGMT
Vampire Weekend's sold out show at the Art Theater of Long Beach followed a couple of secret-ish L.A. outings -- at the former site of Madame Wong's on Halloween (Ezra was dressed as Jon Gosselin, or a douchebag, or both)... CONTINUE READING VAMPIRE WEEKEND/AVI BUFFALO @ ART THEATER, LONG BEACH 11/2/09»
Posted on November 3, 2009 in Concert, MP3, Photo, Tour Dates (6 comments)
Tags: Avi Buffalo | The Golden Filter | Vampire Weekend
The decade recounting started with Pitchfork handing top honors to Kid A and Uncut lusting after Jack White. Now it's Paste's turn to list their favorite albums of the '00s and, as you might expect, they add some different names... CONTINUE READING PASTE'S 50 BEST ALBUMS OF THE DECADE»
Posted on November 2, 2009 in List (132 comments)
Tags: Sufjan Stevens | The Decemberists
When not giving guitar lessons and/or soundtracking HP commercials, Vampire Weekend's performing new songs from Contra. Last week you saw and heard "Cousins." This time it's "California English." (Thanks for the tip and video, Jesse.) The band did it over... CONTINUE READING NEW VAMPIRE WEEKEND - "CALIFORNIA ENGLISH" (LIVE IN LA)»
Posted on November 2, 2009 in Video (18 comments)
Tags: The Decemberists | Vampire Weekend
Peter Gabriel's first album in seven years is a Bob Ezrin-produced orchestral covers collection called Scratch My Back. It reportedly features reinterpretations of the folks mentioned above along with Elbow, the Kinks, Talking Heads, Lou Reed, David Bowie, and Neil... CONTINUE READING PETER GABRIEL'S SCRATCH MY BACK FEATURES ARCADE FIRE, RADIOHEAD, BON IVER COVERS»
Posted on October 29, 2009 in Video (7 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Bon Iver | Paul Simon | Peter Gabriel | Radiohead | Spiral Stairs | The Magnetic Fields
Sainthood is out today, and the guitar teachers of Tegan & Sara celebrated by performing the entire album at Los Angeles's Orpheum Theatre last night. Aside from a creepy moment where a female stagecrasher jumped up during "Nineteen" to hug... CONTINUE READING TEGAN & SARA/LAURA VEIRS @ THE ORPHEUM THEATRE, LOS ANGELES 10/26/09»
Posted on October 27, 2009 in Concert, Photo (5 comments)
Tags: Laura Veirs | Tegan And Sara
It's Tegan & Sara/Vampire Weekend Monday... Sainthood may have a bigger, more forceful band sound, but the Jamie Travis-directed video for "Hell" features the Quin sisters alone in adjoining hotel rooms with their new pompadours, a huge supply of faceless... CONTINUE READING NEW TEGAN & SARA VIDEO - "HELL"»
Posted on October 26, 2009 in Video (8 comments)
Tags: All The Saints | Tegan And Sara
If you're tired of practicing old folk tunes, Beatles songs, Mel Bay, or whatever, Q TV's new series "How To" With Q features various indie rock luminaries walking you through the guitar parts of some of their popular songs. A... CONTINUE READING GUITAR LESSONS FROM VAMPIRE WEEKEND, TEGAN & SARA, THE NATIONAL»
Posted on October 26, 2009 in Video (6 comments)
Tags: All The Saints | Sondre Lerche | Tegan And Sara | The National | Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend's very familiar "A Punk" soundtracks a colorful (slow) trip (into the city) across Google Maps in an ad for the HP Photosmart Premium, "the world's first Internet connected printed." You'll have to watch to see how it works,... CONTINUE READING VAMPIRE WEEKEND SOUNDTRACK HP ADS, PREP "COUSINS"»
Posted on October 26, 2009 in Album Art, Commercial Appeal, Video (6 comments)
Tags: A Place To Bury Strangers | Vampire Weekend
While Death Cab and Annie Clark talk up their New Moon contributions, Thom Yorke has remained suspiciously mum. We can only assume he is a fan of vampires and of letting his music speak for itself. His "Hearing Damage" leaked... CONTINUE READING ZOMG NEW MOON SOUNDTRACK LEAKED»
Posted on October 11, 2009 (69 comments)
Tags: Bon Iver | Grizzly Bear | New Moon | St. Vincent | Sufjan Stevens | Thom Yorke | Twilight | Victoria Legrand
Before Vampire Weekend, Ezra had L'Homme Run, a rap act that had a song called "Giving Up Da Gun," which was recently removed from their new MySpace. And the new VW LP has a song called "Giving Up The Gun."... CONTINUE READING IS CONTRA'S "GUN" OLD L'HOMME RUN?»
Posted on October 6, 2009 (4 comments)
Tags: Ezra Koenig | L'Homme Run | Vampire Weekend
"It's always been one of my favorite drinks," VW's singer tells NME. "I don't know if you can find much Horchata in England, it's a sweet Mexican rice drink, usually served cold." Also: "The percussionist who plays a bunch of... CONTINUE READING EZRA TALKS "HORCHATA"»
Posted on October 6, 2009 (5 comments)
Tags: Ezra Koenig | Mauro Refosco | Vampire Weekend
We've seen indie rockers reach out to hip-hop's most recognizable collective (or at least the most recognizable hip-hop collective to indie rockers). But lately, it's been Wu-Tang Clan making the moves. This week Judgment Night 2009 is in full force,... CONTINUE READING WU-TANG MEETS THE INDIE ROCK»
Posted on October 5, 2009 in MP3, Video (7 comments)
Tags: Black Lips | Coachella | Ghostface Killah | GZA | King Khan | Mick Boogie | Mocky | Pattern Is Movement | Peter Bjorn And John | RZA | The Black Keys | The Decemberists | Vampire Weekend | Wu-Tang Clan
You guys made some very educated guesses about what Vampire Weekend's been counting down to all day. Some of them were even right! (The rest of you will just have to wait for a VW clothing line.) At the strike... CONTINUE READING NEW VAMPIRE WEEKEND - "HORCHATA"»
Posted on October 5, 2009 in MP3, Tour Dates (82 comments)
Tags: The Dodos | Vampire Weekend
Keep your eyes peeled in about four-and-a-half hours, according to the ticking clock at ithinkuracontra.com. Guesses? UPDATE: "Horchata."... CONTINUE READING VAMPIRE WEEKEND IS COUNTING DOWN TO SOMETHING»
Posted on October 5, 2009 (29 comments)
Tags: Toadies | Vampire Weekend
NAME: Vampire Weekend PROGRESS REPORT: Turning in their second album, Contra. Recorded at Treefort Studios in Brooklyn and Topetitud in Mexico City. Yesterday was officially XL Recordings' due date for Vampire Weekend's second album Contra. After writing songs pretty much... CONTINUE READING PROGRESS REPORT: VAMPIRE WEEKEND»
Posted on October 1, 2009 in Progress Report (14 comments)
Tags: Ezra Koenig | Rostam Batmanglij | Vampire Weekend | Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Recognize this comely mystery girl? In recent weeks her portrait has appeared on various music blogs with no link or accompanying text. An ad for Ralph Lauren? Probably not. Cue viral buzz. In its second phase, the ad linked to... CONTINUE READING VAMPIRE WEEKEND'S CONTRA REVEALED»
Posted on September 15, 2009 in Album Art, MP3, Video (57 comments)
Tags: Passion Pit | Vampire Weekend
ATP NY was our favorite festival of 2008, and the only one all three Stereogum staffers attended. The draw? Partially the lineup, of course, but also the fact that it takes place in the hotel that inspired Dirty Dancing's summer... CONTINUE READING ATP ROCKS THE CATSKILLS THIS WEEKEND»
Posted on September 11, 2009 in MP3 (4 comments)
Tags: All Tomorrow's Parties
The makeup-wearing senior citizen with the girl's name and 7 handicap is not a fan of Upper West Side Soweto. Alice asks Noisecreep, "Are all American bands metro-sexual now? I heard the title Vampire Weekend and I thought, 'Oh, man,... CONTINUE READING ALICE COOPER THINKS VAMPIRE WEEKEND HAVE NO BALLS»
Posted on September 3, 2009 in Where's The Beef? (66 comments)
Tags: Alice Cooper | Vampire Weekend
This past weekend, bill-sharing fellows Reading and Leeds were tasked with distracting a nation still reeling from the death of its Oasis. Their secret weapons were unannounced sets by Them Crooked Vultures, the tweet-happy supergroup of Dave Grohl, John Paul... CONTINUE READING READING & LEEDS FESTIVALS 2009 IN PHOTOS»
Posted on August 31, 2009 in Concert, Photo, Video (8 comments)
Tags: Alexa Chung | Arctic Monkeys | Deftones | Eagles Of Death Metal | Enter Shikari | Faith No More | Fall Out Boy | Fightstar | Florence And The Machine | Funeral For A Friend | Gallows | Glasvegas | Ian Brown | Kaiser Chiefs | La Roux | Leeds | Little Boots | Maxïmo Park | Noah And The Whale | Passion Pit | Patrick Wolf | Pearl Jam | Placebo | Radiohead | Reading | Supergrass | The Gossip | The Horrors | The Living End | The Rakes | The View | Them Crooked Vultures | Vampire Weekend | White Lies | Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Last night in Paris, the legendary Britpop band canceled its second festival gig in a week then broke up, following the 10,000th altercation between its ornery figureheads. I have a hard time believing these clowns are done, but the previous... CONTINUE READING NOEL QUITS OASIS AGAIN»
Posted on August 29, 2009 (91 comments)
Tags: Bloc Party | Noel Gallagher | Oasis | Pearl Jam | Vampire Weekend
Yesterday Scotland's most debonair post-punks took Tonight's slinky fourth single to the new and mercifully improved Tonight Show. Amrit and I have been playing a game in which we rank how enthusiastically Conan thanks each band after its performance. I... CONTINUE READING FRANZ FERDINAND SHOW COCO "WHAT SHE CAME FOR"»
Posted on August 27, 2009 in Photo, Video (12 comments)
Tags: Conan O'Brien | Franz Ferdinand | Neverever | Rain Machine | The Blood Arm
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