The Other Music live video series continues here with Vampire Weekend, capturing the kids performing "Mansard Roof" and "A-Punk" and talking about, like, being in a band and listening to music and stuff. This is the same set we wiped... CONTINUE READING VAMPIRE WEEKEND PERFORM IN OTHER MUSIC, SOUND LIKE OTHER BANDS»
Posted on January 25, 2008 in Video (25 comments)
Tags: Vampire Weekend
The most fabulous La Blogothèque crew summoned VMPRWKND to their side of the world, took them hostage, robbed them of their amplifies, stuffed them into a van, and forced them at camerapoint to perform a private rendition of "Mansard Roof."... CONTINUE READING NEW VAMPIRE WEEKEND LIVE VIDEOS - "MANSARD ROOF" / "THE KIDS DON'T STAND A CHANCE"»
Posted on January 21, 2008 in Video (7 comments)
Tags: Vampire Weekend
The BBC conducted a poll of 150 music critics regarding the new bands they see breaking out in '08. For those of you who read the lists by British experts we posted a couple weeks ago, the top 10 shouldn't... CONTINUE READING BBC POLL PICKS 2008'S BREAKOUT ARTISTS»
Posted on January 7, 2008 (15 comments)
Tags: Adele | Black Kids | Duffy | Foals | Glasvegas | Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jongs | MGMT | Santigold | The Ting Tings | Vampire Weekend
Count MTV among Vampire Weekend's many (many) fans inside the not-exclusively-indie press. (Well, MTV along with SPIN and Rolling Stone and all of Britain.) So the kids do stand a chance after all, and it's starting to show, if nowhere... CONTINUE READING NEW VAMPIRE WEEKEND VIDEO - "A-PUNK"»
Posted on January 7, 2008 in Video (9 comments)
Tags: Vampire Weekend
If you really had the power of foresight, and its outer limits were the ability to predict next year's breakout music artist, in this fiscal climate it'd be about as lucrative or useful as Isaac's albino-eyeballed painting-predictions about people you... CONTINUE READING BRITISH EXPERTS PREDICT 2008'S BREAKOUTS»
Posted on December 21, 2007 (47 comments)
Tags: Adele | Duffy | Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jongs | MGMT | Patrick Wolf | The Ting Tings | Vampire Weekend | Wavves | Yeasayer
Straight off their yacht, David Byrne's year-end list, and MTV and into the shadowy studio of Indie 103.1 FM, Vampire Weekend have given us the second look/listen of something new from the forthcoming XL release that wasn't on the BTW-worthy... CONTINUE READING NEW VAMPIRE WEEKEND LIVE VIDEO - "I STAND CORRECTED"»
Posted on December 6, 2007 in Video (12 comments)
Tags: Vampire Weekend
What a whirlwind career it's been for Vampire Weekend. And by career we mean 18 months of course. But in that time the band's nabbed themselves a BTW designation, blessings for from indie pop Godfathers old and new, a European... CONTINUE READING VAMPIRE WEEKEND TALK BLOGS, BYRNE, CRUNK ON MTV»
Posted on November 30, 2007 in MP3, Tour Dates, Video (11 comments)
Tags: David Byrne | Talking Heads | Vampire Weekend
When all your members hail from the same Ivy League school and Cape Cod figures in the title of one of your catchiest tracks, music journos are gonna come up with some tags with which to handle you. "People call... CONTINUE READING NEW VAMPIRE WEEKEND VIDEO - "MANSARD ROOF"»
Posted on November 12, 2007 in Video (17 comments)
Tags: Vampire Weekend
At first folks were probably scratching heads at BTW Vampire Weekend's decision to give CMJ short shrift and take off for Europe after their (great) set at Other Music last Thursday ("but they're a buzz band!"). Having progressed more in... CONTINUE READING NEW VAMPIRE WEEKEND - "M 79"»
Posted on October 23, 2007 (6 comments)
Tags: Vampire Weekend
"We're really happy to be playing Other Music, especially since this is the first store in the world to sell our music," Ezra said a song into Vampire Weekend's 11AM set at Other Music yesterday. "Online," he added with... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM DOES CMJ: VAMPIRE WEEKEND @ OTHER MUSIC, NYC 10/18/07»
Posted on October 19, 2007 in Concert, MP3 (4 comments)
Tags: CMJ | Peter Bjorn And John | Vampire Weekend
Since nailing down Band To Watch status around here earlier this year, the Ivy League Afro-beat/new wave/indie pop kids of VMPRWKND have seen their name written (usually with vowels) in the NMEs and the SPINs the Rolling Stones of the... CONTINUE READING DAVID BYRNE REVIEWS VAMPIRE WEEKEND, ANIMAL COLLECTIVE (PLUS AVEY ET AL BRING CONAN SOME JAM)»
Posted on October 8, 2007 in Video (16 comments)
Tags: Animal Collective | Conan O'Brien | David Byrne | Vampire Weekend
There's no way Pablo Honey or even The Bends could have prepared us for OK Computer. This isn't a new thought, but it is worth mentioning that in just over four years Radiohead graduated from "Creep" to visionary status. It's... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM PRESENTS... OKX: A TRIBUTE TO OK COMPUTER»
Posted on July 10, 2007 in MP3 (237 comments)
Tags: David Bazan | Doveman | Flash Hawk Parlor Ensemble | John Vanderslice | Johnny Greenwood | Marissa Nadler | Mobius Band | Radiohead | Slaraffenland | The Decemberists | The Twilight Sad | Thom Yorke | Vampire Weekend
Last Friday, while the cool kids were en route to Indio, the collared-shirt set gathered in to hear Band To Watch Vampire Weekend do their Paul-Simon-meets-the-Walkmen thing in the basement of Brooklyn's Union Hall. As the bocce balls rolled overhead,... CONTINUE READING VAMPIRE WEEKEND @ UNION HALL, BROOKLYN 4/27/07»
Posted on May 3, 2007 in Concert (8 comments)
Tags: Vampire Weekend
Brooklyn's Vampire Weekend sent Stereogum a blue CD-R, which popped up in our iTunes as Vampire Weekend: Blue CD-R. Fair enough. The demo's sound quality matches the title's DIY promise, but these are indie-pop gems of a different cut, pulling... CONTINUE READING BAND TO WATCH: VAMPIRE WEEKEND»
Posted on April 13, 2007 in Band To Watch, MP3 (47 comments)
Tags: Vampire Weekend
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Rain Machine - Give Blood (»)
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Beck - Little Hands (Feat. Feist, Wilco And Jamie Lidell) (»)
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Yeasayer - Ambling Alp (Memory Tapes Remix) (»)
Solange - Stillness Is The Move (Dirty Projectors Cover) (»)
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Bear In Heaven - Dust Cloud (»)
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Cloud Nothings - Hey Cool Kid (»)
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Digital Leather - Photo Lie (»)
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