Biography: Vampire Weekend
Columbia and blog grads Vampire Weekend may dress like your rich uncle on a boating trip. They reference Peter Gabriel (who has plans to cover them), borrow freely from Paul Simon's Graceland and sing about Oxford commas, but as a testament to their songwriting skills, they're appealing, not annoying. After the release of their self-titled XL debut they survived a backlash and were ultimately interviewed by Pete Wentz on MTV.
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Vampire Weekend
2007
Daytrotter Session
2007
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2007
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| 2008-09-05 | Portland, OR | Mcmenamin's Crystal Ballroom |
| 2008-09-09 | Louisville, KY | Headliners Music Hall |
| 2008-09-10 | St. Louis, MO | The Pageant |
| 2008-09-11 | Lawrence, KS | Liberty Hall |
| 2008-09-15 | Las Vegas, NV | The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas |
| 2008-09-16 | Pomona, CA | Glass House |
| 2008-09-17 | Los Angeles, CA | The Wiltern |
| 2008-09-18 | Los Angeles, CA | The Wiltern |
| 2008-09-24 | Tempe, AZ | Marquee Theatre |
| 2008-10-09 | St. Louis, MO | The Pageant |
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Michael Cera, who Hollywood has already typecast as Boy Who Must Appear In Movie With Sensitive-Indie-Kid Appeal, is set to star as a funny-and-attractive-but-in-a-totally non-threatening-way love interest to Kat Dennings in Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist. If you name your movie Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, you pretty much have to hire a focus group to help you identify whatever you can of the indie rock zeitgeist, and then employ as many of those elements into your product and marketing to ensure an air of independent-minded authenticity (see: Bishop Allen acting as one band; BK duo Project Jenny Project Jan acting as another; using a Vampire Weekend song). You can also save money and let the pics you see in US Weekly do the research for you (according to The Playlist, bearded starlet-bedder Devendra Banhart will help Nick & Norah keep it real by walking through some frames in a small cameo). So many musicy things! And more: Soundtrack oversight duties fell to pro Devo dude Mark Mothersbaugh, who also produced the film's exclusive Vampire Weekend song "Ottoman," and the list of songs that make the movie are infinitely notable.
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The Ezra Is A Dreamboat factor is high in this one. As promised to John Norris, the video for "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" features a "narrative" and "preppy people" and "actual characters": Ezra plays the Andrew McCarthy role, Rostam and the Chrisses play the other members of Vampire Weekend. The first half is as John Hughesy as advertised -- all mansions and lives of leisure and sitting on linens with girls pretty in pink (see also) -- the second half is "Thriller," if imagined by Robert Smith.
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The first annual Pemberton Festival, in the city of the same name in British Columbia, Canada, definitely did its work attracting the right names to attract the right attention -- Tom Petty, Nine Inch Nails, Jay-Z, Coldplay, the Flaming Lips, My Morning Jacket, Death Cab, etc. Unfortunately it seems it didn't quite do its work on the organizational front; while Live Nation's trumpeting a "triumphant success," headline writers in Canada are going more with "Confusion, Dust Mar Pemberton Festival." Apparently things felt slightly out of control at times, from issues at the gates, within the gates, and with traffic on the way in. Those traffic jams affected artists, too (which messed with the schedule), unless the artist's name was Jay-Z, in which case you helicoptered in (personal air vehicles are great for punctuality).
We sent photographer Jenn Perutka to brave the dust and lineups. Despite the weekend's rough spots, her photo set makes it look like quite a time. Also there's a set of crowd shots in there that help illustrate how the audience passed the time "in creative ways" while waiting for N.E.R.D., including tossing crowdurfers in the air, cross-crowd competing strip teases, and good ol' fashioned long faces. Enjoy the scroll.
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After a night of "classic" recreations, it was nice to dive into the current state of the indie landscape. Yesterday's lineup was stacked, and we spent the day scissoring back and forth catching as much as possible, right through to Animal Collective's relatively ornate light show to close. (That's Panda Bear, trickled in green beams.) Here's how the day broke down, word-and-photo style:
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These guys are wasting no time. Ezra, Chris, Rostam, and Chris -- gothed up and standing on the beach -- spoke with MTV's John Norris about the forthcoming, fourth video for "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa." Here's word from the Jersey Shore:
There's the story line -- something VW have not done until now. "I think with this one we consciously decided ... we've done fairly abstract videos in the past, in that there's no narrative," Koenig said. "We thought maybe it'd be fun if there were actual characters. ... We used to shy away from anything that even came close to 'acting' in videos, but in this one there is interaction among people, so in that sense it is more of a story. There are preppy people in it and non-preppy people in it. So it was a chance to have some of our friends come be in the video."
One of those friends is a red-haired goth girl who connects with the band and figures into their ghoulish transformation. She's played by Batmanglij's friend Jenny Murray and looks like she could've stepped right out of a John Hughes movie. "We should also mention that this video is set in the '80s," he told me. "It's the first time we've done a video not set in the present. And we actually mentioned John Hughes in talking about this. I think there's a Tim Burton element as well."
John Hughes, and not Wes Anderson, got it. It is in vogue. Check out some photos from the set after the jump.
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