Showing posts with label Vampire Weekend. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vampire Weekend. Show all posts

Help Bring Vampire Weekend to the National in Richmond!


And become a fan. The National, a music venue in Richmond - not the band, is trying to woo Vampire Weekend to its stage. Apparently if they get enough fans on that page, it woud be a significant boost to the National's cause. And don't think this this is some fan created page filled with false promises, the venues's management created the page.

The National is hardly an hour down the road from U.Va., and is ont of the better places to see live music in Virginia. Join that page, and maybe someday soon we'll be standing next to each other in the front row, trying to catch Ezra Koenig's guitar pick. And as we know, Vampire Weekend are great live.

Vampire Weekend - Giving Up the Gun (Video)

tableau writer Campbell Bird said he would recommend Contra to "just about anyone," while offering the caveat that Vampire Weekend "may appear to have an unquenchable thirst for all things bizarre and pretentious." This thirst manifests itself quite openly in their new video for "Giving Up the Gun."

It's quintessential Vampire Weekend. It makes you smile, ponder the lyrics, and want to write a blog post in atypically high diction.

Basically, if you like Vampire Weekend, you'll love watching a Jonas Brother, Wu Tang Clan member RZA, Lil' Jon, and a drunk and cocksure Jake Gyllenhaal in this slo-mo, tennis themed video.

Artist Watch: Vampire Weekend


People say that Pheonix was the Vampire Weekend of '09. Well guess what. It's 2010 and we don't have to settle for electro-y, French indie rock anymore; we get the real deal. Vampire Weekend's next album drops just five days from now (January 12).

If the first two legitimately available songs are an indication of what the rest of Contra will sound like, we're in for another catchy, witty treat from the Ivy League rockers. Both "Horchata" and "Cousins" (awesome video, first official single for Contra) stay true to that "Upper West Side Soweto" sound that led to their success back in '08.

The whole album can be streamed from VW's official website.