Almost two decades ago, the formation of indie-rock band Vampire Weekend made possible its impressive and ever-growing collection of hit songs. The band’s members lean into their Ivy League ...
After nearly two decades, Vampire Weekend is still performing with the same nerdy charm of a college band. The indie pop and rock group, which formed at Columbia University in 2006, delivered both ...
“A journey from cynicism to optimism,” is how Ezra Koenig describes Vampire Weekend’s fifth album, Only God Was Above Us. Beginning with the muttered line “F*** the world” and ending with a song ...
Surrounded by screaming fans, two things were pretty clear to me last night. Many people love Vampire Weekend. I just don’t happen to be one of them. Oh, calm down. The boys from Columbia University ...
Modern indie-rock stalwarts Vampire Weekend recently announced a new tour in support of their upcoming Only God Was Above Us album, giving fans something to look forward to for the first time in over ...
Vampire Weekend are teasing their new album, Only God Was Above Us, with a 30-second clip of a noisy yet upbeat guitar cacophony skating over some funky bass and drums. The clip for the album, due out ...
Last night, June 20, Vampire Weekend touched down at Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena for the final West Coast engagement of its expansive Only God Was Above Us Tour and the last of five dates with ...
Following up on last week’s seismic announcement of its fifth studio album, Vampire Weekend made waves again today with the release of “Capricorn” and “Gen-X Cops,” the trio’s first new solo music ...
A major problem with early success is getting past it — case in point, the cheerful bop of Vampire Weekend’s first two albums and their image as peppy college boys who’d studied Paul Simon’s ...
Vampire Weekend in concert at Raleigh, N.C.’s Red Hat Amphitheater, Wednesday night, Oct. 9, 2024. Scott Sharpe ssharpe@newsobserver.com Front man Ezra Koenig and Vampire Weekend rolled into Raleigh ...
On its fifth album, suffused with thoughts of 20th-century New York City, indie-rock’s pop maximalists get noisier — but it’s a journey out of negativity into “something a little deeper.” From left: ...
One of Vampire Weekend’s biggest hits begins with the question “Who gives a f—k about an Oxford comma?” It’s a fair question, and the answer is simple: It me. I GAF about the Oxford comma, because ...