Vampire Weekend

NEW: Prince – “Lay It Down” “From the heart of Minnesota, here come the Purple Yoda,” sings Prince on “Lay It Down”, a new cut from his forthcoming 20Ten album.…

That’s right folks. Kid Cudi, Best Coast and the man behind the production of Vampire Weekend and Discovery, Rostam Batmanglij have teamed together, for Converse, to record “All Summer”. This…

I don’t know if I have something against Theophilus London subconsciously or something because I completely ignored his I Want You mixtape when it was released several weeks ago. I…

The Morning Benders – “Go Grab A Stranger” and “Cold War” (Wallpaper. Remix) There are two new Morning Benders songs available for your hearing pleasure today, aren’t you lucky? Theophilus…

Just when you thought you were done defending Vampire Weekend against “elitist” remarks, they had to go and dress up like Mozart.

FIRST SINGLE: Kanye West – “Power” There’s a new Kanye West song making the rounds and accumulating take-down notices around the webs. Rumor has it that the song — “Power”…

While we were all still giggling to ourselves at the fact that a band named Vampire Weekend agreed to contribute a song to the upcoming movie in the Twilight Saga,…

Vampire Weekend – “Jonathan Low” While we were all still giggling to ourselves at the fact that a band named Vampire Weekend agreed to contribute a song to the upcoming…

Vampire Weekend have just wrapped up a string of North American tour dates, and are already announcing a few more. This time, the chart-topping, madras-donning indie sweethearts will hit the…

Let me get this straight — the soundtrack for the third Twilight movie Eclipse features new music from Muse, Vampire Weekend, Sia, The Dead Weather, Metric, and even features a…

To view all Tour Dates-related news, click here. Vampire Weekend have added a three-night gig at the legendary Radio City Music Hall in New York to their current tour. Check…

We called Mumford & Sons’ Sigh No More too much of a good thing in our review of the album. What, then, should we say about their cover of Vampire…

The Hood Internet, who has been picking up steam steadily for a while now with their seminary mash-ups of prominent hip-hop acapellas over popular indie rock samples. Their latest work…

And here it is, Vampire Weekend’s star-studded music video for Contra fan favorite (and my least favorite) “Giving Up The Gun”. Oh and you know cocky, drunk Tennis Superstar Jake…

When Vampire Weekend write ballads they follow them up with barreling, kinetic punk jams. When Vampire Weekend close an album they close a f*****g album and they close it with…

True story: I heard “Ruby Soho” at a sushi bar last week and I instantly thought that Vampire Weekend would sound great performing this. And they do. Everyone’s favorite chart-topping…

Photo by Natasha Ryan. More at Metromix In the middle of “Taxi Cab”, all waterfall piano and drum machine and harpsichord, something at Ezra Koenig’s feet lights him from below…

Photo by Kevin Cooley Last week the PMACAST celebrated its twenty-fifth installment on its one year anniversary — yet no one wished us a Happy Birthday! What rude listeners we…

Warm Heart of Africa was one of my favorite songs and albums of 2009. Who knows why they decided to release the video to one of last summer’s biggest jam…

“Giving Up The Gun” is probably my least favorite Vampire Weekend song, and it’s spot on Contra had me on the fence for days. Fortunately, LOL Boys and Hotbizzies hooked…