Sono il male. Con quell'atteggiamento per cui non c'è e non potrà mai esserci nulla di improvvisato, di sbagliato, neppure volendo, uccidono l'idea stessa di punk, nonostante si ostinino ad usare la parola nei titoli delle loro canzoni. Quegli odiosi maglioncini color turchese, gli occhiali da sole di notte, le barbe sfatte e poi tagliate appena voltiamo le spalle. Le citazioni di quello sfigato di Paul Simon (Graceland è una rottura di palle, dicamolo una volta per tutte), lo sdoganamento fighettino dell'Africa, un posto dove se c'è un dio che ci guarda da lassù Ezra e compagni verrebbero cucinati in [...]
Vampire Weekend - "I Think UR a Contra:" Share and Enjoy:
Pour tout dire, cette chronique a été un véritable enfer à accoucher. J'étais la première il y a quelques mois, à m'impatienter de l'arrivée prochaine du successeur de Mansard Roof . Il est des musiques qui sans en faire des tonnes, s'invitent dans votre vie jusqu'à en devenir une véritable bande sonore, cet album en fait parti. Voilà qu'en décembre arrive donc un premier extrait, Horchata . J'écoute le titre plusieurs fois pour essayer de me convaincre que cet absence d'émotions n'est pas réelle mais je dois m'y résoudre. Oui, ce sont bien les quatre bien peignés de [...]
". ..but this feels so unnatural, Peter Gabriel too- and it feels so unnatural to sing your own name. " Hot Chip and Peter Gabriel covering Vampire Weekend ? Yes and Vampire Weekend's ' Contra ' CD is available for $10.49 shipped from Barnes and Noble . Listen & Download: Hot Chip & Peter Gabriel - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (Vampire Weekend Cover) - http://usershare.net/ifp5l4ixn 5yz http://67.159.60.104:40000/d/3 sebcnolzvegbhesuu4rniqx7ljcses xpxmrt33g/audio.mp3
On paper there is nothing cool about Vampire Weekend. They're four Ivy League graduates that play indie-pop music inspired by African rhythms and guitar with lyrics full of literary references, visits to foreign countries and summers spent in New England on records put out by a small UK-based label. With barely two-dozen songs in their catalog, these fresh-faced early 20-somethings have managed a meteoric rise in a just a few short years selling close to half a million copies of their infectious self-titled debut, and more recently dropping their sophomore effort Contra [...]
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Vampire Weekend - Contra Release Date: January 8 th , 2010 Label: XL Album Score: 1.2 My Review/Rant: 0.7 ZACH THAT: “Bad art is more tragically beautiful than good art 'cause it documents human failure." -Tristan Reveur “ AY AY AY AY !” -Vampire Weekend [...]
Photography and Haiku by Victoria Jacob blood picket fences my mother would love these boys the floor is beating More photos after the jump.
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Listen | Purchase Vampire Weekend is so easy to hate. They are gentrification in musical form, unabashed cultural exploiters. Sure, they aren't the first clean-cut, intelligent white guys to appropriate "world" music ( Brubeck, Simon, Byrne ), but they are certainly the most annoying. And now they are #1 on the Nickelback-affirming Billboard charts. I should state up front that I thought the first Vampire Weekend record was refreshing. There was very little of it at the time. A-Punk [...]
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Torniamo a parlarvi della classifica settimanale degli album più venduti al mondo stilata da Mediatraffic . Finalmente un po' di aria fresca ai vertici della classifica... non vi svelo ancora nulla ma al numero uno c'è un disco piuttosto valido (era ora... dopo mesi di trash). Le altre due novità arrivano dal Giappone e sono, nell'ordine, gli Hilcrhyme (J-Rap) alla 9 e i Lands (J-Pop) alla 5. Altra notizia "di rilievo" è il sorpasso di Lady Gaga (che rimane stabile alla 2) ai danni di Susan Boyle [...]
Alright, we'll jump in and give this story some more fuel, if only because record sale figures are pretty fascinating in today's highly pirated digital world. New York indie darlings Vampire Weekend reached No. 1 on the Billboard albums chart with their sophomore record Contra via XL. Released January 12, the album sold 124,000 copies its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Their self-titled debut has sold 490,000 copies to date. Billboard reports Contra is "the 12th independently distributed album to top the Billboard 200 chart since SoundScan began [...]
I finally got around to buying Vampire Weekend’s new album Contra. And it is good, maybe even...
According to Billboard, Vampire Weekend's Contra reached #1 in sales via Soundscan. Contra has sold 124,000 copies (both digital and physical) within the first week of release. In the UK, Contra was the third best selling album of the week. This marks the first United States release to reach #1 for British record label XL. The sad news is Britain's Got Talent favourite Susan Boyle is now #2 on the album charts. Poor lass was knocked off #1 chart by a group of indie hipster yanks. (jokes)
Vampire Weekend have a lot to be happy about. Not only is the band set to play at this year's Coachella Music Festival , but they have also topped the Billboard Charts . The band's recently released sophomore album, ' Contra ', debut this week at Number 1 on the Billboard 200. The album, and follow-up to their 2008 self-title debut album, has sold over 124,000 in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan . The chart position marks only the 12th time an independently released [...]
OK, folks, we’ve got the leader in the clubhouse for Album of the Year for 2010. I know it’s only January, but I have a feeling someone is really going to have to step up their game to knock Vampire Weekend’s Contra off its perch.
I've never been a real Vampire Weekend fan. It's not that I dislike the band, I just can't get excited about them. My lady loves them though, so when I saw they were playing a block from our place, I took her out. We had seen them before, once at a Witness benefit at Roseland and once at last summer's All Points West. I always kind of feel neutral after seeing them and last night (1/18) was no different. It was mostly 3-minute pop-ditties, with high-pitched guitar licks and sharp vocals leading the way. They did bring [...]
In 2008 Columbia graduates Vampire Weekend set the world alight with their self-titled debut album. The release, boasting a joyful blend of African beats, infectious pop hooks and youthful enthusiasm, eased its way into the US and UK Top 20 aided by a wave of blogosphere hysteria. The New Yorkers’ 2010 sophomore effort ‘Contra’ sees a [...]
Vampire Weekend, the debut from everyone’s favourite ivy leaguers-cum-indie rockers, was kind of a big deal. It spawned several hit songs, topped end-of-year album charts and impressed critics by drawing on fairly unconventional influences. The biggest factor in the band’s initial success however was its ability to bridge the tricky canyon bridging indie and pop. [...]
Vampire Weekend performs "Horchata" featuring The Calder Quartet more about " Craig Ferguson 1/14/10E Late Late Sho... ", posted with vodpod Vampire Weekend plays a sweet "Horchata" with some backing orchestral support from the Calder Quartet on Craig Ferguson last night. Contra is out now, grab it here. Vampire Weekend - I Think Ur A Contra [...]
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