ARTIST: Vampire Weekend - [Album] DATE: 01-07-08 REVIEW BY: Chase Domergue Vampire Weekend is not a Goth band. They are not a Death Metal act, either. Their songs do not employ the use of heavy guitars or lighting quick drum solos. Their lead singer, a Columbia grad by the name of Ezra Koenig, does not scream into the microphone or pen lyrics that surround death and other dark matters. What they are is a rare [view more]
Indie 103.1FM has released a video featuring a live performance of Vampire Weekend performing their song "I Stand Corrected". And for once, Pitchfork offers a nice little opinion that I somewhat agree with... Vampire Weekend are from the Upper West Side, of course, not northern England, but Ezra Koenig's crisply enunciated, vibrato-touched vocal on "I Stand Corrected", [...]
Cheers to Vampire Weekend for some solid pop goodness last night. Here's the boys performing a tune from their upcoming debut album.
Straight off their yacht , David Byrne's year-end list , and MTV and into the shadowy studio of Indie 103.1 FM, Vampire Weekend have given us the second look/listen of something new from the forthcoming XL release that wasn't on the BTW -worthy Blue CD-R (via P4K ). They really sound great, bubbling along with that sparkling clean lilt. Nice cable knit sweater, by the way. You can take the boys out of the yacht, but you can't take the yacht out of the [...]