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Charli XCX may have handed off one of the biggest hits of the last several years to Icona Pop, but she's not taking such a breezy attitude toward her True Romance follow-up. That's evident by taking one look at the talent she's onboarding for her latest. In an interview with Complex, Charli revealed that she is working with Weezer's Rivers Cuomo and Vampire Weekend's production guru/band member Rostam Batmanglij. Read More »
Vampire Weekend returned to Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform two tracks off of their smash hit Modern Vampires Of The City. The all grownt up Vampy Weeks performed "Hannah Hunt" and "Unbelievers" on Kimmel's outdoor stage. Read More »
The highly anticipated season three premiere of HBO's Girls took place last night, and it featured a brand new song from Rilo Kiley/Postal Service songstress and now solo artist Jenny Lewis, which was produced by Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij. "Completely Not Me" is one of many tracks that will appear on the soundtrack collection titled Girls Volume 2: All Adventurous Women Do. Read More »
In what can only be an attempt to out-surreal the idea of a Vampire Weekend song that samples Souls Of Mischief, Ezra Koenig's outfit have released a remix of the Modern Vampires Of The City cut that includes guest verses from Heems (formerly of Das Racist -sobs for three hours-), Despot and Danny Brown. Read More »
There's nothing better in this world that a little bit of psychological horror, blood and indie rock! The artists and songs for the soundtrack to the upcoming horror film "Carrie" have been announced, and the 12-song album is full of the best of indie music today. Read More »
Robin Thicke's song "Blurred Lines" is easily one of the best hits of this summer and Vampire Weekend's "Diane Young" also falls under that category. So when Vampire Weekend decided to cover "Blurred Lines," it made complete sense! The result is an interesting version of the song that sounds more stripped and organic as opposed to Thicke's over-produced, original pop version. If anything, it is definitely fun! Read More »
Vampire Weekend won over quite a few critics with their latest album Modern Vampires Of The City and if their set at Glastonbury is any indication, they are out to win quite a few fans as well. Read More »
Vampire Weekend have released an official music video for "Diane Young," the lead single off their new album Modern Vampires Of The City. Read More »
The Coachella Music Festival just wrapped up its 2013 edition in India, California in April but the festival has already announced its 2014 dates on its website. Read More »
In support of their recently released (and if the reviews are any indication, remarkably good) new album Modern Vampires of the City, Vampire Weekend took to Reddit for an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session. The results proved what many people have known about Ezra Koening and the gang for quite a while: these afro-pop -loving, yacht rocking, Columbia-educated, arena touring musicians are really funny. Highlights below: Read More »
Kristen Wiig returned to Saturday Night Live last night for the first time after leaving the cast last year. This time, the former cast member came on to host along with musical guest Vampire Weekend, and she brought back plenty of her old characters. We got to see "Target Lady," "the Californians," and even a tease of "Gilly!" Wiig also brought friend and former cast member Maya Rudolph for some jokes as well as Jonah Hill. Vampire Weekend performed two new songs off of their album Modern Vampires in the City and Wiig had us all laughing. What did you think? Read More »
'Vampire Weekend' has just released another new track (accompanied by a lyric video) from their forthcoming album, Modern Vampires of the City. The latest single, entitled "Ya Hey," is the third track debuted by the indie rock band prior to the official release their third studio LP, dropping May 14th. Modern Vampires of the City will feature "Ya Hey" in addition to the previously released tracks "Step" and "Diane" Young." "Vampire Weekend" unveiled "Ya Hey" by posting the Youtube link for their "brand new track" and lyric video on their Twitter page today. The band similarly released video clips back in March to go along with the premiere of their first two released singles. "Step" was accompanied by "monochrome shots of New York City and subtitled lyrics," while "Diane Young" showed an "abandoned Saab in flames," notes Metro. The latest clips for the "Ya Hey" lyric video (below) "features people of all ages standing on a rooftop wrapped in what appears to bed sheets and popping bottles," reveals Rolling Stone. Read More »
In the latest promotional video installment of Steve Buscemi and Vampire Weekend promoting their concert collaboration, "American Express Unstaged," the famed actor and the band hit the subway and a bowling alley to hand out concert flyers. Of course they decide to get a few bowls in while at the bowling alley, so we even get to hear a Big Lebowski reference. Do you think this grassroots marketing will get a good crowd for the April 28th show at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City? Read More »
