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…   Read Story »

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.…   Read Story »

Overlapping waves of hype and backlash behind them, Vampire Weekend have moved on to the business of making new music. Except that they been had making new music since the halcyon Vampire Weekend…   Read Story »

The blogger-mandatory track post that Chris Walla didn't get around to yesterday was this cut of "Campus" in its pre-Vampire Weekend form (and so we fired Chris Walla). The song credit goes to Rostam…   Read Story »