Posts tagged with "Vampire Weekend"
VAMPIRE WEEKEND
VAMPIRE WEEKEND
Modern Vampires of the City
[XL Recordings]
Vampire Weekend’s third album expands its varied repertoire with a musical valentine to their hometown of New York City. Set to liquid chords and languid rhythms, the band’s serious-minded lyrics center on the trials of 20-something life. The band incorporates numerous sounds, from rubbery bass on the mod-rockabilly number “Diane Young” to Hammond organ on the Beach Boys-inspired...
SUMMER FESTIVALS
MAY
THE BAMBOOZLE
Headliners: Bon Jovi, Foo Fighters, Blink-182, Skrillex, Brand New, the Gaslight Anthem, All American Rejects, Jimmy Eat World, Incubus, Mac Miller
Where: Asbury Park, N.J.
When: May 18-20
Website: thebamboozle.com
Promoted as the largest beach-based music festival in the U.S., the 10th annual Bamboozle offers more than 100 acts. This year the sounds will continue well into the night, as the lineup has expanded to include...
Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend
VAMPIRE WEEKEND
Discovering inspiration in contradictions and cleverness
Sure, Vampire Weekend singer and guitarist Ezra Koenig was an English major at noted Columbia University and taught junior high English. And yeah, on the band’s new Contra album he rhymes “horchata” with “balaclava,” among other clever linguistic feats. What of it?
“It’s a criticism people try to lodge at us,” Koenig says with a resigned chuckle....