Colonial dress aside, this video reminds me a bit of Best Coast’s “When I’m With You”. Vampire Weekend are clearly still in the midst of their fixation with California in the clip for Contra’s “Holiday”, doing lots of weird things in LA including driving around in wigs ordering In-N-Out Burger, chasing after a dude on [...]

In the new Vampire Weekend video for Contra’s “Giving Up the Gun” (which you may already know as yet another stellar VW track), RZA, Joe Jonas, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Lil Jon are part of a dream-like tennis match that involves Gyllenhaal ripping off a pair of breakaways and Joe Jonas being in a Vampire Weekend [...]

This is a “step away from your keyboard” track.
Vampire Weekend’s “California English” is a song from their upcoming record, Contra. “California English Pt. 2″ is from nowhere near there. The “Cousins” b-side is more keyboardist Rostam Batmanglij’s Discovery than it is VW, with a short, distorted audio clip looping continuously through-out and Ezra Koenig singing [...]

After hearing a few live recordings of Vampire Weekend’s “Cousins” and watching it performed in a movie theater in Long Beach earlier this month, I quickly deemed it a new favorite from the band’s upcoming Contra. The video is vaguely reminiscent of the “A-Punk” clip (though I can’t remember any 10 foot penises drawn with [...]

Here comes the feeling you thought you’d forgotten…hearing new Vampire Weekend.
The band’s signature afro-indie-with-a-string-section sound is still very much intact, and “Horchata” proves another solid VW offering with strong international influences and catchy catchy popness. I also taste a splash of Discovery, perhaps left over from Rostam Batmanglij’s electronic side project. The track is available [...]