Artist: Vampire Weekend

Driving to the Sasquatch! Festival on Thursday I opted to skip out on I-90 from Seattle and instead drive way up north and take Route 2. It still gets you where you're going, but the traffic-congested two-and-a-half hour trip you get with 90 becomes an isolated six-hour journey if you choose Rt. 2. It's completely worth it considering what you get instead: over 100 miles of absolutely stunning forests. Bright spring weather shifts into snowy mountains, freight trains chug by, so long they seem to lack a beginning or end - the forest completely surrounds you. It's a real experience [...]

By groove@algarvecentral.net Driving to the Sasquatch! Festival on Thursday I opted to skip out on I-90 from Seattle and instead drive way Source: Groove 2U

If Vampire Weekend were observant flies on the wall during their first two albums-mainly describing upper-class Northeastern culture-they’re in the eye of the storm now. And their third LP, Modern Vampires of the City , sees the group at their damned finest. The introspection and stories found on tracks like “Hannah Hunt” and “Hudson” are darker, but welcomed personal reflections. But the Upper West Side guys can still crank out the catchy stuff, too, in the form of “Diane Young” and “Ya Hey.” The cheeky Paul Simon comparisons are now moot. These [...]

photo by Brittney Bollay It’s time again for Friday on My Mind , our weekly blog post where we look at videos centered around one common theme. This is a collaborative effort between KEXP and King 5 News. It’s finally here: Sasquatch 2013. This festival has grown to be one of the premier festivals not just in the Northwest, but throughout the world. This year’s amazing edition kicks off today out at the Gorge Amphitheater in George, WA, and will run through Memorial Day this Monday. Have you already made your lists of [...]

Una settimana: tanto è bastato ai Vampire Weekend per conquistare il primo posto nella classifica americana con il loro ultimo disco, Modern Vampires Of the City , edito dalla XL Recordings. Il quartetto indie newyorchese ha rilasciato questo terzo lavoro, di cui Soundsblog vi aveva svelato copertina a tracklist già a febbraio , come ultima parte di una trilogia, iniziata con Vampire Weekend del 2008 e proseguita con Contra del 2010, che ha decretato il successo della band come una delle realtà [...]

Last night, Portland's Keller Auditorium played host to Vampire Weekend. The band ran through hits from their first two albums and played a significant chunk of their excellent new record Modern Vampires Of The City . We sent Colin McLaughlin to check it out.

Last night, Portland's Keller Auditorium played host to Vampire Weekend. The band ran through hits from their first two albums and played a significant chunk of their excellent new record Modern Vampires Of The City . We sent Colin McLaughlin to check it out. [...]

Unbelievers to Vampire Weekend will be converted after Modern Vampires of the City. XL Recordings, 2013 9.5 / 10 "I feel it in my bones", sings Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig on "Step", one...

If Sasquatch 2013 in Quincy, WA will be your first entry into your festival diary, you've made a grave error. Everyone knows you have to start with a feeble local festival, boasting maybe one act you've heard of and where the ticket price is a whopping zero dollars. A festival where ultimately you'll walk away with an unaffected attitude and a feeling of time wasted. By ignoring this rite of passage, you've ultimately set your standards too high and only a select handful of festivals will ever be able to match up. Essentially you're now experiencing what [...]

The drive to Sasquatch! is a lengthy trip for most of the attendees, and what better time to get familiar with the bands you'll be seeing at the festival? That's where we come in. We've plucked 36 artists from the festival lineup and chosen a song by each, resulting in two-and-a-half hours of fantastic music. This is SKOA's essential Sasquatch! mix. This is the We Found Sasquatch! Mixtape . The mixtape features plenty of amazing talent, including Vampire Weekend, Disclosure, Tame Impala, Alt-J, Surfer Blood, Dirty Projectors, Father John Misty, Edward Sharpe and The [...]

There are so many bands on the cusp of success; some bands make it, some bands don't. For a band to make it, they need to have their ducks in a row and um, all of their eggs in one basket. Robby Hunter Band has done these things-not recklessly but quietly and methodically. Their music is beach-tinged, summer heaven with hints of Caribbean flare. The video below is funny and self-aware and right in time for the season of the sun. This is music for you to zone out to with a Corona and [...]

Vampire Weekend have secured their second US number one album. The band's acclaimed third album Modern Vampires of the City ( XL Recordings ) tops the US album charts this week, selling 134,590 copies. It follows the success of their previous two albums Vampire Weekend and Contra , which have sold over a million copies each. Vampire Weekend return to the UK this weekend to perform at Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Derry, [...]

La classifica americana di Billboard sembra essere scissa in due entità parallele: tanto quella dei singoli subisce variazioni minime, quanto quella degli album è in grado di modificarsi velocemente ogni settimana, riempiendosi di nuove entrate che non sempre rispecchiano quelle della classifica dei singoli. La Hot 100, infatti, si conferma sostanzialmente quella della settimana scorsa: confermati i primi tre posti di Macklemore & Ryan Lewis con Can't Hold Us feat. Ray Dalton , Pink feat. Nate Ruess con Just Give Me [...]

VAMPIRE WEEKEND, HIGH HIGHS ( Keller Auditorium , 222 SW Clay) Nobody expected Vampire Weekend's third album to be this good, especially with the title Modern Vampires of the City . Yet the New York boat-shoe prep-poppers—who even recorded part of the new album on blue-blood resort isle Martha's Vineyard—have delivered their best work yet, a mature, nuanced, and of course, catchy work that makes good on all their early promise. NED LANNAMANN DEVENDRA BANHART, RODRIGO AMARANTE [...]

En esta edición de Super 45, como siempre con Boris Orellana y Claudio Ruiz, comentamos los nuevos trabajos de Primal Scream ( More light ), Vampire Weekend ( Modern vampires of the city ) y Youth Lagoon ( Woundrous bughouse ). Además, celebramos los 20 años de la edición de  Rid of me , el segundo álbum de Pj Harvey, una de la solistas más influyentes de los últimas dos décadas. MP3:  Super 45 Podcast #753    (jueves 16 de mayo, 2013)  |  Suscríbete al Podcast de Super45  |  Suscríbete al Podcast [...]

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Vampire Weekend has taken their collegiate odes to east coast women and living and taken a more broad approach to songwriting with their latest release, "Modern Vampires of the City." Is it inconceivable that VW had the best selling album in the land last week? An indie release no less. Number one on the Billboard charts with a spot at the top of most summer festivals in 2013 with a "Best New Music" from P4K. One could say this is the year of the vampire. Speaking of vampires, "True Blood," starts this summer. [...]

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Vampire Weekend's Modern Vampires Of The City has entered the U.S. album chart at #1, selling nearly 135,000 copies since its May 14th release on XL Recordings. This is the second time Vampire...

Only two days left until Sasquatch! begins. Tomorrow and the next day will see thousands of avid music fans journeying to The Gorge Amphitheatre in George, WA, prepping their campsites, stocking up on alcohol and drugs in anticipation of dozens of amazing performances. This year's lineup boasts some fantastic talent , such as The xx, Vampire Weekend, Sigur R ós, The Postal Service, Disclosure, Arctic Monkeys, Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros and many, many more. It's a lineup worth salivating over. As the festival quickly approaches, I've put together [...]

Happy World Goth Day , everyone! No, really, this is a real thing. Since 2009, the goths of the world have come together on May 22nd to listen to 24 hours straight of The Cure. In celebration of this most joyous of holidays, we've let our resident goth Lazen host today's episode of Rock it Out! Blog . Among the headlines covered: CHVRCHES frontwoman Lauren Mayberry's cover of Rage Against The Machine , Vampire Weekend debuting No. 1 on the Billboard album charts , and information on this year's CBGBs Festival . [...]