She might, but her lawyers are going after the wrong party/parties. The photographer is the party at fault, but I bet he doesn't have anything close to $2M at the ready.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 17 July 2010 07:10 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i mean if someone forged her signature then she probably does have grounds for a lawsuit of some sort, but i don't see at all how the band is at fault
― i think i'm baby peach, larry koopa (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 17 July 2010 07:14 (thirteen years ago) link
literally guffawed for about 45 secs at ulilia's shop
― Mister AOR (The Reverend), Saturday, 17 July 2010 08:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Basement Jaxx have remixed White Sky
― heterosexist matrix of desire (Gukbe), Thursday, 5 August 2010 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Fellini.Kuti, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Cuervo is cooler than Vampire Weekend for a start.
― Widow of Opportunity (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Fellini.Kuti, Thursday, 28 October 2010 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
or limited ed cassette rather
― Fellini.Kuti, Thursday, 28 October 2010 01:16 (thirteen years ago) link
500 copies, green plastic
― Fellini.Kuti, Thursday, 28 October 2010 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShWxGSbP9Qc&feature=player_embedded#!
― Gukbe, Friday, 19 November 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I like Ezra Koening's UK chart-pop playlist for Rolling Stone. Putting a donk on it.
http://rollingstoneextras.com/playlists/view/ezra-koenig
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 12:15 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 12:33 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 12:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Interesting definition of "identical" there.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 12:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Shouldn't be repping for Cheryl Cole though.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 12:37 (thirteen years ago) link
seven of the songs he reps for are pretty awful. chez cole's not even the worst there, remarkably.
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 12:39 (thirteen years ago) link
none are quite as shit as his own music, though.
You're really still repping for Paris?
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 14:18 (thirteen years ago) link
yes! i listened to half her album this morning. still holds up
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 14:30 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y09idVuelI
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha ha Lex what would you have done if Ezra had repped the Paris song?
― Tim F, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
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1.0 out of 5 stars YUPEEEEEE!, January 16, 2010By 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 genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes.
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I heard some more of Contra lately and it was far from the worst thing ever.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
<3 this album but room on fire is also a fave
― plax (ico), Thursday, 23 December 2010 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I fought the inclination for months, but lost: "Giving Up the Gun" is my jam of the year.
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 December 2010 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
y fight it
― plax (ico), Thursday, 23 December 2010 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone heard their iTunes holiday EP? They cover Bruce's "I'm Goin' Down."
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 15:31 (thirteen years ago) link
that "holiday oooh holiday the best time of the year" song in the TV commercials can suck my dick, thank god xmas is over
― in my world of Hmong ppl (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 2 January 2011 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
lmaotm
― flopson, Sunday, 2 January 2011 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxzM7FaGLOk
― max, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 04:11 (thirteen years ago) link
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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― markers, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 04:25 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iPJHcX_dRs
― markers, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 04:29 (thirteen years ago) link
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)
― Mordy, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 02:35 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
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
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 6 March 2012 02:48 (twelve years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, they grow on you.
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Euler, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
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
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
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".
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".
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 January 2013 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
last chance for them to not become completely irrelevant
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Friday, 4 January 2013 23:37 (eleven years ago) link
I actually think both their albums hold up really well. First is better than the second, but both are good.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Friday, 4 January 2013 23:44 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah I still go back to these quite a bit. Don't know how much more "relevant" you can get.
― Gukbe, Friday, 4 January 2013 23:49 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 4 January 2013 23:55 (eleven years ago) link