When dishing up our two cents on Vampire Weekend's Billboard-topping Contra we noted: It would have been interesting if Ezra had worked some of his knowledge/love of punk and hardcore (a la his Fucked Up moment) into the mix. The... CONTINUE READING VAMPIRE WEEKEND COVER RANCID»
Posted on February 8, 2010 in MP3 (17 comments)
Tags: LoneLady | Operation Ivy | Rancid | Vampire Weekend
Contra, which has sold 124,000 copies and is the band's first no. 1, "is only the 12th independently distributed album to top the Billboard 200 chart since SoundScan began powering the list in May of 1991," says Billboard. Take that... CONTINUE READING VAMPIRE WEEKEND HAVE THE NO. 1 ALBUM ON BILLBOARD»
Posted on January 20, 2010 (49 comments)
Tags: Pixies | Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend continued their Contra goodwill tour by performing "Horchata" on Craig Ferguson yesterday, a week after offering "Cousins" to both Conan and Letterman. They did it with strings (via the Calder Quartet) but sans the horns they'd been spotted... CONTINUE READING VAMPIRE WEEKEND BRING "HORCHATA" TO FERGUSON, LONDON ICE RINK»
Posted on January 15, 2010 in Video (21 comments)
Tags: Craig Ferguson | Vampire Weekend
I don't know if the Very Best's people releasing the video for their track featuring Ezra Koenig during Vampire Week will maximize its promotional value or wash it out in the deluge of Contra-related content, but whatever the case, here... CONTINUE READING NEW VERY BEST VIDEO - "WARM HEART OF AFRICA" (FEAT. EZRA KOENIG)»
Posted on January 15, 2010 in Video (9 comments)
Tags: DEVO | Ezra Koenig | The Very Best | Vampire Weekend
They're seemingly everywhere at once, but actually they're just in one place this Vampire Week -- California, muse to Contra, where the band brought bells to Conan and played an album-release show at the Henry Fonda Theater. Very Be Careful... CONTINUE READING VAMPIRE WEEKEND @ HENRY FONDA THEATER, LOS ANGELES 1/12/10»
Posted on January 13, 2010 in Concert, Photo (1 comments)
Tags: Vampire Weekend | Very Be Careful
Thank god Vampire Weekend played Conan last night, that guy hasn't been in the headlines for ages now. Just kidding, shit is bananas over there. It's interesting how moving Leno to 10PM didn't kill NBC's drama programming so much as... CONTINUE READING VAMPIRE WEEKEND PLAY CONAN, KCRW»
Posted on January 12, 2010 in Video (11 comments)
Tags: Conan O'Brien | Max Tundra | Passion Pit | Vampire Weekend
You'll be seeing a lot of Vampire Weekend in the coming weeks. This is what's commonly referred to as an understatement. Contra's out tomorrow (1/12), the reviews are in, and so far the promo campaign can scratch Letterman, The New... CONTINUE READING VAMPIRE WEEKEND UNPLUGGED»
Posted on January 11, 2010 in Video (8 comments)
Tags: Jerry Lee Lewis | Vampire Weekend
A month shy of two years ago, Vampire Weekend made their network television debut on Letterman with "A-Punk." They returned last night bringing their punkest bit yet with "Cousins," a familial and frantic, ska-siphoned racer that always feels its a... CONTINUE READING VAMPIRE WEEKEND BRING THEIR "COUSINS" TO LETTERMAN»
Posted on January 6, 2010 in Video (41 comments)
Tags: David Letterman | Vampire Weekend
The New Yorker shadowed VMPRWKND as they shot a doc on Cali musicians. Their interview with DeLonge oddly turned into Tom pitching them Modlife, his artist-services site. After little luck, he asked: "Why are you guys so mellow?"... CONTINUE READING VAMPIRE WEEKEND MEET TOM DELONGE, REMAIN MELLOW WHILE DOING SO»
Posted on January 5, 2010 in MP3 (9 comments)
Tags: Blink-182 | Tom DeLonge | Vampire Weekend | Yeasayer
There's been plenty of pre-release hype, viral and otherwise. You've known the tracklist and backstory for a while. And after hearing "Horchata," "California English" (in two parts), "Cousins," and the old-timer "White Sky," you wouldn't be faulted for thinking Vampire... CONTINUE READING PREMATURE EVALUATION: VAMPIRE WEEKEND - CONTRA»
Posted on January 4, 2010 in MP3, Premature Evaluation, Tour Dates (55 comments)
Tags: Vampire Weekend | Weezer
There could not have been a more apt ID3 than that of Freelance Hellraiser's "Stroke Of Genius," the MP3 that launched this decade's most fitting musical legacy. Parts of two or three or thirty tracks mixed into one supersong? What... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM & TEAM9 PRESENT... MYSPLICE 4: 2009 MASHED UP»
Posted on December 24, 2009 in MP3, MySplice (49 comments)
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Maybe it was these tough economic times -- the sinking music industry, everyone downloading shit for free, rising unemployment. Or perhaps folks just are getting stir crazy from lack of fresh air, sitting in front of their laptops/4-tracks while their... CONTINUE READING THE 14 BEST BAND BEEFS OF 2009»
Posted on December 22, 2009 in Listomania, Where's The Beef? (50 comments)
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Here's the relaxed, daydreaming pop of "White Sky," a song that fuses Vampire Weekend's new focus on not focusing on guitar with Ezra's understanding of how best to channel Paul Simon. It's technically the third listen from Contra (the fourth... CONTINUE READING NEW VAMPIRE WEEKEND - "WHITE SKY"»
Posted on December 17, 2009 (18 comments)
Tags: Kelley Deal | The Breeders | Vampire Weekend
The current crop of indie rock pinups have had their sartorial sensibilities played with by the New York Times already -- a couple of times! Fashion and buzz bands are highly bloggable bedfellows: the Gray Lady analyzed artists' fashion sense... CONTINUE READING VAMPIRE WEEKEND, BEIRUT, MGMT ARE IN VOGUE»
Posted on December 16, 2009 (21 comments)
Tags: Adam Green | Beirut | DJ Hero | Golden Silvers | MGMT | Sasha Pivovarova | The Horrors | Vampire Weekend
We waited all yesterday for this to pop up on iTunes and it's finally arrived... No strangers to the tradition of benefit recordings -- see the "David Christmas" 7", "Year Of The Pig," etc. -- Fucked Up gathered a bunch... CONTINUE READING FUCKED UP & FRIENDS COVER "DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS?"»
Posted on December 9, 2009 in MP3, Video (0 comments)
Tags: Andrew W.K. | Ben Gibbard | Bob Mould | Broken Social Scene | David Cross | Fucked Up | GZA | Kyp Malone | Tegan And Sara | TV On The Radio | Vampire Weekend | Wu-Tang Clan | Yo La Tengo
Yes new Vampire Weekend, but I think ur a stiil a full eight tracks from hearing all of Contra proper, unfortunately. "California English, Pt. 2" is not to be confused with "California English"; the latter is the album track, whereas... CONTINUE READING NEW VAMPIRE WEEKEND - "CALIFORNIA ENGLISH, PT. 2"»
Posted on December 4, 2009 (24 comments)
Tags: Imaad Wasif | Vampire Weekend
The Vampire Weekender takes SPIN on a tour of his Brooklyn apartment, showing off posters, instruments, a very special Dirty Projectors EP, and a bowl of the best yogurt in NYC. ... CONTINUE READING CRIBS: EZRA KOENIG»
Posted on November 30, 2009 in Video (4 comments)
Tags: Ezra Koenig | Vampire Weekend
This year in music was great and we'rea gonna let it finish (sorry), but in terms of notable album releases the ship has sailed. No offense, 30 Seconds To Mars. While the Gummys' virtual poll booth remains open for a... CONTINUE READING THE 25 69 MOST ANTICIPATED ALBUMS OF 2010»
Posted on November 25, 2009 in List, Listomania, MP3 (305 comments)
Tags: Aloha | Arcade Fire | Band Of Horses | Beach House | Beck | Born Ruffians | Cat Power | Charlotte Gainsbourg | Clipd Beaks | Danger Mouse | David Byrne | Dr. Dog | Drive-By Truckers | Dum Dum Girls | Fatboy Slim | Field Music | Final Fantasy | Fleet Foxes | Four Tet | Free Energy | Frightened Rabbit | Gorillaz | Harvey Milk | Hot Chip | Interpol | James Mercer | Jónsi | Jens Lekman | Joanna Newsom | LCD Soundsystem | Liars | Los Campesinos! | Massive Attack | Menomena | MGMT | Midlake | Miles Kurosky | No Age | of Montreal | OutKast | Panda Bear | Pantha Du Prince | Peter Gabriel | Pig Destroyer | Quasi | R.E.M. | RJD2 | School Of Seven Bells | Scissor Sisters | Serena-Maneesh | She And Him | Shearwater | Sleigh Bells | Spoon | Surfer Blood | Ted Leo | The Antlers | The Avalanches | The Hold Steady | The Magnetic Fields | The Morning Benders | The National | The New Pornographers | The Strokes | The Thermals | The Walkmen | The Wrens | These New Puritans | Toro Y Moi | Vampire Weekend | Wavves | Xiu Xiu | Yeasayer
For about 54 seconds this just looks like a pretty lame movie trailer, but that's when it becomes a pretty lame movie trailer that also rips off "Oxford Comma" and "A-Punk." Hollywood magic! (And lawsuits probably!) ... CONTINUE READING THE STRIP TRAILER RIPS OFF VAMPIRE WEEKEND»
Posted on November 24, 2009 in Video (7 comments)
Tags: Dave Foley | The Strip | Vampire Weekend
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 (36 comments)
Tags: I Was A King | Vampire Weekend
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
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
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
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
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