Vampire Weekend; Arctic Monkeys of 2008?

literally guffawed for about 45 secs at ulilia's shop

Basement Jaxx have remixed White Sky

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/08/vampire-weekend-slide-show-201008#slide=1

What a moron. Would have gone down as the coolest thing she'd ever been apart of. Now it's the gated community uptight versus her kid's friends

Cuervo is cooler than Vampire Weekend for a start.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1393/592448787_1c8857818f.jpg

I want VW to do a song for that new muppet movie and use this as the 7" cover

or limited ed cassette rather

500 copies, green plastic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShWxGSbP9Qc&feature=player_embedded#!

I like Ezra Koening's UK chart-pop playlist for Rolling Stone. Putting a donk on it.

http://rollingstoneextras.com/playlists/view/ezra-koenig

Koenig, dammit, Koenig.

british pop has been so terrible for the past two years and not even "pass out" and "katy on a mission" can disguise it

also i love "about you now" but i don't see anyone rushing to rep for the paris hilton song that it's identical to

Interesting definition of "identical" there.

Shouldn't be repping for Cheryl Cole though.

seven of the songs he reps for are pretty awful. chez cole's not even the worst there, remarkably.

none are quite as shit as his own music, though.

You're really still repping for Paris?

yes! i listened to half her album this morning. still holds up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y09idVuelI

Ha ha Lex what would you have done if Ezra had repped the Paris song?

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1.0 out of 5 stars YUPEEEEEE!, January 16, 2010
By G. Jackson "DJGJ" (NYC)

This review is from: Contra (MP3 Download)

Break out the white wine! It's the preppie d-bag revival! Come on, Paul Simon! We're goin' BACK to Graceland!

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I heard some more of Contra lately and it was far from the worst thing ever.

<3 this album but room on fire is also a fave

I fought the inclination for months, but lost: "Giving Up the Gun" is my jam of the year.

y fight it

anyone heard their iTunes holiday EP? They cover Bruce's "I'm Goin' Down."

that "holiday oooh holiday the best time of the year" song in the TV commercials can suck my dick, thank god xmas is over

lmaotm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxzM7FaGLOk

only becaue of u did i finally have the courege 2 find my real mother in ohio even with my prostehtic leg limbs. thank u

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iPJHcX_dRs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4BgfcHkfW0

three of his five uploads on youtube are about "crash"

it constantly surprises me how much i love this band. i still regularly play both albums (tho contra more than the debut)

otm

otm

Damn. It's been more than year since we revived this thread?!

i'm not constantly surprised by how much i love this band, but i still very much love this band

I see that they are gonna be at the Pitchfork fest and Vampire Weekend bassist Chris Baio has scored the upcoming Bob Byington film Somebody Up There Likes Me. The movie, which stars Parks & Recreation's Nick Offerman is set to premiere next week (Sunday) at South By Southwest in Austin, TX

Yeah, they grow on you.

I love this band too; every time I travel someplace where I feel like I'm stepping above my station (like I am now), these albums ring very true.

i was just thinking the other day how contra struck me as really accomplished and well-done and how i haven't had any urge to listen to it (or heard any one else mention it) since it came out

For those who care (admittedly, I don't):

http://www.nme.com/news/vampire-weekend/68008

Vampire Weekend's third album is influenced by jazz, Bob Dylan and The Clash according to Rostam Batmanglij.

The multi-instrumentalist spoke to Uncut about the forthcoming album, the US band's first since 2010's 'Contra'. Discussing the influences and sounds the band are creating, Batmanglij said: "The goal was to use organic sounds and put them in a context that you might not have heard before. It's certainly darker and grittier than 'Contra'. A lot of these songs are about conflict. They're about the choices we can make, being able to do what we want with our lives."

He added: "With 'Contra' I was interested in a kind of arty, '80's New York sound, but this album goes deeper. It gets into the '50s and some of it sounds like jazz, but broken down into its most basic elements and played in a very simple way. It's more of a subtle kind of complexity and there's an intimacy to the performances, both vocal and instrumental, that are very special. I think the sound of the piano is central to the record."

Batmanglij went on to mention song titles such as 'Don't Lie', 'Hudson' and 'Unbeliever', which the band played during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel's US chat show at Halloween last year. The guitarist compared the new songs to bob Dylan and The Clash, saying his friends told him the songs sound "scary".

last chance for them to not become completely irrelevant

I actually think both their albums hold up really well. First is better than the second, but both are good.

Yeah I still go back to these quite a bit. Don't know how much more "relevant" you can get.

I care! Was just listening to them last night. They're a good band, and I can't wait to hear the new stuff. I listen to plenty of retro-sounding stuff and wipe my ass with relevance daily, but to be fair, I don't think VW are completely stuck in the past.

Contra >>>>> first

Even though I still prefer the first, I like that Contra is not just a rehash. It does some things differently and I think better. For instance, they took more care with the sound and production on Contra, and it shows. But overall I think the first is more consistent. But I'm definitely looking forward to hearing the new one.