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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 [...]

Look at this f*cking Barcelona house party! Vampire Weekend apparently made friends at a local bar after a gig in Barcelona, and then somehow ended up playing at a random birthday party. Their impromptu performance of “A Punk” and “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa” has luckily (for me and my mom, she loves Vampire Weekend) made [...]

Spent 10 seconds widening my eyes to this rather transformative Mumford & Sons cover of Vampire Weekend’s Contra stand-out track, “Cousins,” on BBC Live Lounge before I decided it was the greatest thing of all time. OK, more like the greatest thing I’ve heard since 9:15. But still, great. The UK folk band (hardcore, like, [...]

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 [...]

See in bold some of the things that make the line-up for the 2010 Sasquatch Music Festival in George, WA the perfect 2010 music festival line-up. No worries, Coachella, you are beyond perfect and are still the winner. Vampire Weekend MGMT LCD Soundsystem Tegan & Sara Broken Social Scene Passion Pit Deadmau5 She & Him [...]

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 an echoed, insanely catchy “California” chant like it’s [...]

Cudder samples Vampire Weekend’s “Ottomon” for his latest track, a freestyle ‘holiday gift’ for the internets, “Cudderisback.” Call him a hipster, as long as you’re a listener. Stream: “Cudderisback” by Kid Cudi

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 [...]

Vampire Weekend’s self titled debut marked the first time in recent memory that my Album of the Year was decided in January. After nearly two years of missing the band in NY (even having to give away a ticket to go to a company Christmas party), I managed my way to Long Beach last night [...]

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 [...]