If you were in any doubt where Vampire Weekend get their air of Wes Anderson soundtrack, Rostam Batmanglij of the band lays it out for you on ‘Wood’, a fancy solo effort with tabla and running Eastern strings posted on … Read More…
A free three-track covers EP from Guards which features radically-different huge reverb-heavy slow rock versions of songs by Metallica (‘Motorbreath’), Vampire Weekend (‘Taxi Cab’) and M.I.A (‘Born Free’). Guards is Richie Follin, brother of CULTs‘ singer Madeline who released a … Read More…
Awesome. Their new album Business Casual is out next week. Tour dates after the jump. Chromeo – Don’t Turn The Lights On (Aeroplane Remix) Chromeo – I Could Be Wrong (Feat. Ezra Koenig)
Taken from the forthcoming Twilight:Eclipse soundtrack, comes this new tune from Vampire Weekend. The band explained to Triple J that it is different to anything they’ve done before and it features a 12-string guitar part. Well, it’s not that different … Read More…
How’s this for some Friday What The Fuckery? A Vampire Weekend tennis video featuring RZA as the umpire, Lil Jon as the coach, Jake Gyllenhaal, a Jonas Brother and their friend Jenny. If you were wondering how RZA and Lil … Read More…
As we all hear Contra via web streams this week for the first time (hear it below at the bottom of the post), thoughts turn to how this album will translate live compared to their first album seeing as it … Read More…
In retrospect, the first official leak from the new Vampire Weekend album Contra, ‘Horchata’ was not really as exciting as it could have been. ‘Cousins’ is a different beast altogether: frantic, fun and frolicsome, like a younger brother of ‘A-Punk’ … Read More…
Vampire Weekend today released ‘Horchata’ a new song from their upcoming album Contra to be released in January through XL. It’s no great change from their debut really but you’d hardly want them to go electro or something. It’s still … Read More…
Tomorrow I’m splitting from dull overcast Dublin for the weekend in favour of the three-day Rock en Seine festival near Paris. The lineup includes Vampire Weekend, Bill Callahan (really looking forward to this), Oasis, Faith No More, Passion Pit, School … Read More…
A selection of nine songs for your long weekend delectation. Enjoy. The Very Best’s debut album Warm Heart of Africa is out on the 11th of August and while it’s perhaps not as exciting as the mixtape last year, these … Read More…
In Day and Night today, it’s the fourth week of the Oxegen giveaway so pop on over to blog to enter to win two weekend tickets. Also over there you’ll find some cool videos (especially the dinosaur one), a look … Read More…
