Chris Baio, Vampire Weekend's bassist, will soon release Sunburn, his first-ever solo EP. (He's recording under his own famous last name.) One of the EP's three tracks is a tropical dance tune called…   Read Story »

MTV reports that President Obama has "a wish list" of campaign supporters for his upcoming 2012 run for re-election and points to a document obtained by The Tennessean. The list includes, among…   Read Story »

The vaguely snarky but ridiculously informative VH1 video-trivia show Pop-Up Video is totally back, and it's lately shone its spotlight on a couple of indie-ish artists. Recent episodes have included…   Read Story »

Back in September, Vampire Weekend multi-instrumentalist and producer Rostam Batmanglij posted a new track called "Wood," a lighter-than-air Bollywood/classical/pop fusion, on his Tumblr. Today, he's…   Read Story »

Vampire Weekend multi-instrumentalist and production guru Rostam Batmanglij has posted a new track called "Wood" on his Tumblr. It's six minutes long, and it throws incandescent string arrangements…   Read Story »

A little laptop-cam serenade from D.R. Adams, a flashback to the days he fed his blog more frequently. In Ryan's hands, Vampire Weekend's "Mansard Roof" is finger-picked and singer-songwriterly. In…   Read Story »

How did you celebrate July 4th? On a rooftop BBQ listening to our summer mix? Maybe you stayed in and watched old episodes of Hoarders on Roku? Maybe I stayed in and did that. There is no way to…   Read Story »

A new two-day festival, Music To Know, launches this August in East Hampton, New York with appropriate headliners Vampire Weekend and Bright Eyes along with Cold War Kids, Matt & Kim, Chromeo, Tame…   Read Story »

After watching the recently unearthed footage of Arcade Fire playing a house party in 2002 and a 17-year-old Robin Pecknold covering Radiohead and Simon & Garfunkel, I thought it would be fun to…   Read Story »

Most of the Ceremony soundtrack is an original score by the Fruit Bats' Eric D. Johnson (with a little help from Van Dyke Parks), but there are a few additional songs from The Animals, Pete Townsend,…   Read Story »