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 (28 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
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
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
If you weren't talking about the weather in Grant Park this weekend, you weren't in Grant Park this weekend. And really that would've been a shame. It was oppressive at times, but despite -- or as these things go, perhaps... CONTINUE READING LOLLAPALOOZA 2009 WRAP-UP»
Posted on August 10, 2009 in Concert, Photo (30 comments)
Tags: Alberta Cross | Alexa Chung | Amazing Baby | Andrew Wyatt | Animal Collective | Arctic Monkeys | Band Of Horses | Bat For Lashes | Bon Iver | Cage The Elephant | Crystal Castles | Dan Deacon | Depeche Mode | Fleet Foxes | Gomez | Ida Maria | Jane's Addiction | Janelle Monae | Kings Of Leon | LeAnn Rimes | Lollapalooza | Lou Reed | Lykke Li | Neko Case | No Age | of Montreal | Passion Pit | Perry Farrell | Santigold | Silversun Pickups | The Killers | Vampire Weekend | Yeah Yeah Yeahs
When APW presented its inaugural festival last year, we weren't alone in taking issue with the experience: lack of food options, a fair but generally recycled undercard which played more like "a bunch of bands opening for Radiohead," an extremely... CONTINUE READING ALL POINTS WEST WET 2009 IN PHOTOS»
Posted on August 3, 2009 in Concert, Photo, Video (17 comments)
Tags: Akron Family | Arctic Monkeys | Beastie Boys | Coldplay | Crystal Castles | Echo And The Bunnymen | Elbow | Fleet Foxes | Flying Lotus | Gogol Bordello | Jay-Z | Judah Friedlander | Lykke Li | MGMT | Michael Jackson | Mogwai | MSTRKRFT | My Bloody Valentine | Q-Tip | Ra Ra Riot | Shearwater | St. Vincent | Telepathe | The Black Keys | The Cool Kids | The Flaming Lips | The National | Tim And Eric | Vampire Weekend | White Rabbits | Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Radioclit and Esau Mwamwaya, aka the Very Best, made their NYC live debut in the Village on Saturday night. The guys didn't get started until sometime after 1AM, so you actually could have made it from Siren to Le Poisson... CONTINUE READING THE VERY BEST @ LE POISSON ROUGE, NYC 7/18/09»
Posted on July 20, 2009 in Concert, Photo, Video (2 comments)
Tags: Esau Mwamwaya | Ezra Koenig | Jay-Z | Radioclit | The Very Best | Vampire Weekend
To recap: Rostam from Vampire Weekend and Wes from Ra Ra Riot joined laptops and R&B predilections, invited their buddies Ezra and Angel for a couple of tracks, and turned out a really fun summer LP. We happen to love... CONTINUE READING JOIN US FOR A DISCOVERY LISTENING PARTY IN NYC»
Posted on June 22, 2009 (6 comments)
Tags: Discovery | Ra Ra Riot | Rostam Batmanglij | Vampire Weekend | Wes Miles
Earlier today we posted a link to "Ntende Uli," the first single Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit's post-mixtape debut full-length Warm Heart of Africa. A few hours later, here's the album's title track, featuring Ezra Koenig. Of course Koenig and his... CONTINUE READING NEW VERY BEST (FEAT. EZRA KOENIG) - "WARM HEART OF AFRICA"»
Posted on June 18, 2009 in MP3 (5 comments)
Tags: Esau Mwamwaya | Ezra Koenig | Radioclit | The Very Best | Vampire Weekend
The VW frontman joins the VW scarfman and Ra Ra Rioter for Discovery's infectious "Carby." Pretend it's VW on an auto-tuned Hot 97 kick at HypeM. Jay-Z?... CONTINUE READING NEW DISCOVERY (FEAT. EZRA KOENIG) - "CARBY"»
Posted on June 15, 2009 in MP3 (13 comments)
Tags: Discovery | Outside Lands | Ra Ra Riot | The Dead Weather | Vampire Weekend
You have a couple of MP3s from the Vampire Weekend/Ra Ra Riot electro-pop side project, and Rostam & Wes have kindly put up two more to stream on their site. Good summer album, and wait until you hear "I Wanna... CONTINUE READING HEAR SOME MORE OF DISCOVERY'S LP»
Posted on June 10, 2009 (14 comments)
Tags: Discovery | Ra Ra Riot | Vampire Weekend
Prom Season -- and its promise of rented limos, expensive gowns you'll never wear again, and desperate hookup attempts -- is upon us. Many of you probably didn't go to prom because fuck high school! But what if there was... CONTINUE READING VAMPIRE WEEKEND, LCD SOUNDSYSTEM, HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR DJ 826NYC PROM»
Posted on May 22, 2009 in Photo (14 comments)
Tags: Hercules And Love Affair | LCD Soundsystem | Vampire Weekend
Despite selling out in five minutes, and despite featuring Vampire Weekend playing Vampire Weekend songs, last night's early show at Joe's Pub was an atypical night with the band. They performed as the Music portion of the Happy Ending Music... CONTINUE READING VAMPIRE WEEKEND TAKE RISKS, COVER TOM PETTY @ JOE'S PUB, NYC 5/6/09»
Posted on May 7, 2009 in Concert, Photo (13 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | Tom Petty | Vampire Weekend
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Jonathan Boulet - A Community Service Announcement (The Album Leaf Remix) (»)
El Guincho - Antillas (XXXchange remix) (»)
El Guincho - Antillas (»)
Wolf People - October Fires (»)
Fan Death - Cannibal (»)
Fan Death - Reunited (CCENTURIESS Remix) (»)
Chll Pll - Dick Moves (»)
Chll Pll - Pass Out (»)
Beck - Harry Partch (»)
Tim Cohen - Haunted Hymns (»)
Tim Cohen - Take Aim Goliath (»)
Ducktails - Sandglider (»)
tUnE-YaRdS - Hatari (Drunkenmonkey Remix) (»)
tUnE-YaRdS - Hatari (Karn Remix) (»)
Beach House - Norway (»)
The Golden Filter - Thunderbird (»)
Crystal Antlers - It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (Bob Dylan Cover) (»)
CFCF - How Bizarre (OMC Cover) (»)
The Acorn - Strange Animal (Gowan Cover) (»)
Black Tambourine - Black Car (»)
Boyracer - Sunshine And Violence (»)
Henry's Dress - 1620 (»)
Honeybunch - Mine Your Own Business (»)
Lilys - Claire Hates Me (»)
Lilys - February Fourteenth (»)
Lorelei - Today's Shrug (»)
Sleepyhead - Different Colored Letters (»)
Small Factory - Merry-Go-Round (»)
Swirlies - Sarah Sitting (»)
The Ropers - Waiting (»)
Velocity Girl - My Forgotten Favorite (»)
Monsters Of Folk - Say Please (»)
Rain Machine - Give Blood (»)
Wetdog - Tidy Up Your Bedroom (»)
Beck - Little Hands (Feat. Feist, Wilco And Jamie Lidell) (»)
Brendan Benson - Feel Like Taking You Home (»)
Yeasayer - Ambling Alp (Memory Tapes Remix) (»)
Solange - Stillness Is The Move (Dirty Projectors Cover) (»)
Pearl Harbor - California Shakedown (»)
LoneLady - Immaterial (»)
Andrew Cedermark - Hard Livin' (»)
Family Portrait - Super Cool (»)
The Soft Pack - Answer To Yourself (»)
Bear In Heaven - Dust Cloud (»)
Bear In Heaven - Lovesick Teenagers (»)
Atlas Sound - Doctor (Five Discs Cover) (»)
Atlas Sound - The Screens (»)
Cloud Nothings - Hey Cool Kid (»)
The Mary Onettes - Dare (»)
The Mary Onettes - Puzzles (»)
