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-19 posts tagged "Vampire Weekend"
Matthew Kellenberg | Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Arlie, the band, came together on Vanderbilt campus in 2016. Their early singles “big fat mouth” and “didya think” gained traction on Spotify’s curated indie playlists. And now, to much anticipation, the band has released its first EP. They call it “Wait.” There’s something very “Vampire Weekend” about Arlie’s “Wait.” A band of recent college
Charlie Kenney | Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Listening to a new, full-length Vampire Weekend album, absorbing it in its entirety, is a treat that their fans have only been able to experience three times — in 2008, 2010 and 2013. Sure, three albums in just over ten years isn’t anything the Beatles would be impressed with. But three is better than one.
Maggie Walsh | Monday, October 30, 2017
If you are wondering what Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend has been up to in the four years since his band’s latest record “Modern Vampires of the City” was released, here is part of your answer. In late September, Netflix released season one of Koenig’s anime-style brainchild, “Neo Yokio,” in its entirety. The series follows
Augie Collins | Friday, September 29, 2017
In January 2016, Rostam Batmanglij announced his departure from Vampire Weekend while the band was at the seeming peak of their popularity, after having disrupted the indie rock scene with three albums marked by global music influences. The split was an amicable one though, with Batmanglij and Ezra Koenig, the lead vocalist of Vampire Weekend,
Adrian Mark Lore | Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Grizzly Bear seemed like one of those bands that’s just too big to fail. The band’s painstakingly produced records have been virtually flawless in the past, as far as the indie rock scene is concerned. Grounded on perfectionism and subtle progression, records like “Veckatimest” and “Shields” were landmarks to which other indie rock bands
Adam Ramos | Tuesday, September 27, 2016
As Duke relentlessly shredded our defense with each drive on Saturday, I couldn’t help but long for the football games of years past. Feet tired and morale exhausted, my mind drifted to happier times, like our 31-0 blow-out against Michigan my freshman year or Kizer’s game winning toss against UVA last season. Yet, when reality finally
Adam Ramos | Tuesday, February 2, 2016
After the release of Vampire Weekend’s 2013 Grammy Award-winning record “Modern Vampires of the City,” the New York City indie quartet called it the final component to an album trilogy. While many predicted a musical change of direction, the preppy Africana-beatsters may have been foreshadowing a culmination. Rostam Batmanglij, the mastermind and producer behind the
Matthew Munhall, Miko Malabute, Erin McAuliffe, Matt McMahon and Adam Ramos | Sunday, November 22, 2015
This fall, we premiered Scenecast, a new podcast from the Observer Scene staff. Each week, a think tank of Scene writers will discuss a topic from the pop culture zeitgeist. Our writers watch, read and listen to more media than is probably healthy, and this podcast will be another vehicle for sharing that knowledge, often in more
Adam Ramos | Thursday, November 19, 2015
This week, Scene has exhumed a series of albums from decades past in a resurrection of “The Kickback” series. It’s a fun exercise — revisiting the annals of music’s beautifully tumultuous history is always rewarding. Yet it seems my turn to look back is bit different: My kickback period encompasses only the past five years.