Vampire Weekend

[thelaw2047]

Vampire Weekend, yeah...whatever...... even with music people are being led like sheep to slaughter. This band sucks.

 

[miaedu]

European dates:

Feb. 5: Bexhill, UK (De La Warr)
Feb. 7: Cambridge, UK (Corn Exchange)
Feb. 8: Manchester, UK (Manchester Apollo)
Feb. 9: Leeds, UK (Leeds O2 Academy)
Feb. 10: Birmingham, UK (Birmingham O2 Academy)
Feb. 12: Newcastle, UK (Newcastle O2 Academy)
Feb. 13: Glasgow, UK (Barrowlands)
Feb. 14: Edinburgh, UK (Edinburgh Picture House)
Feb. 16: London (Brixton O2 Academy)
Feb. 17: London (Brixton O2 Academy)
Feb. 19: Berlin, Germany (Astra)
Feb. 20: Koln, Germany (Gloria)
Feb. 21: Hamburg, Germany (Uebel or Gefaehrlich)
Feb. 22: Brussels, Belgium (AB)
Feb. 24: Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Paradiso)
Feb. 25: Paris (Olympia)
Feb. 26: Toulouse, France (Le Bikini)
Feb. 27: Barcelona, Spain (To Be Announced)
Feb. 28: Madrid, Spain (Teatro Circo Price)

 

[Shadowplay]

For some reason their album has been released a day early on iTunes.

 

[miaedu]

For some reason their album has been released a day early on iTunes.

I thought they were moving some release dates to Mondays in the US as of 2010.

If you're in the US for today only you can buy it for $3.99 from Amazon.com.

You can also order it from:

iTunes US / iTunes UK / Amazon US / Amazon UK
Rough Trade / Beggars USA / HMV

Remember, if you like physical CDs and LPs, buy from an independent record store and get a bonus CD with 3 exclusive remixes from Toy Selectah. Find one here:

vampireweekend.com/indieretail

 

[syntax]

Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma? Not me-ee. Not me-ee.

 

[miaedu]

The Very Best “Warm Heart Of Africa”

“Warm Heart Of Africa” is a tasty global delight as The Very Best recruits Ezra Koenig from Vampire Weekend to croon the song’s catchy chorus.

http://www.mtvu.com/music/video-premiere/the-very-best-ft-ezra-koenig-warm-heart-of-africa/

 

[miaedu]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVSIKC6IX1M[/ame]

 

[miaedu]

Vampire Weekend Eyes No. 1 On Billboard 200

Vampire Weekend's sophomore album "Contra" is looking like a good bet for No. 1 on this week's Billboard 200 chart. Based on first day sales numbers, industry sources are projecting that the album could sell between 60,000 to 75,000 copies, by week's end on Sunday, Jan. 17. That total would also make "Contra" the week's highest chart debut.

Ke$ha's "Animal" will likely slide out of its current No. 1 position to make way for Vampire Weekend, though it's too early to tell what kind of second-week sales drop "Animal" may face.

Vampire Weekend's self-titled debut album entered and peaked on the Billboard 200 at No. 17 with 28,000 a little under two years ago. It has sold far sold 491,000 in the U.S. according to Nielsen SoundScan.

http://www.billboard.com/#/news/vampire-weekend-eyes-no-1-on-billboard-200-1004059081.story

 

[miaedu]

New York band Vampire Weekend sees its sophomore set "Contra" debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 124,000 copies sold according to Nielsen SoundScan. The set is only the 12th independently distributed album to top the Billboard 200 chart since SoundScan began powering the list in May of 1991.

Vampire Weekend not only celebrates its first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, but the New York band also notches its best sales week yet. The quartet's previous best sales frame was earned when its self-titled first album opened with 28,000 copies in its opening week. That set debuted and peaked at No. 17 on the chart and has since sold 498,000.

http://www.billboard.com/#/news/vampire-weekend-lands-first-no-1-album-1004060383.story

 

[miaedu]

The second video from Vampire Weekend's new album "Contra";

Directed by The Malloys, the video features cameos from Joe Jonas, Jake Gyllenhaal, Lil' Jon and RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bccKotFwzoY[/ame]

 

[DigitalFudge]

So this is what Joe Jonas has been doing with his time now that his brothers are off to better things. Good for him

LOVE this video and song

 

[miaedu]

Interview in OUT Magazine by gay band member Rostam Batmanglij

In the spring of 2006, Columbia University senior Rostam Batmanglij was entertaining literary society parties with his fledgling postmodern Afro-pop band, Vampire Weekend, and wondering if he could pull off life as a professional musician. By the spring of 2008, he was playing the band’s runaway hit single, “A-Punk,” on Saturday Night Live. Vampire Weekend’s self-titled debut had been out only a few months, but fans and critics had been clamoring over it for most of the year. After months of feverish blog hype and the release of an EP that only stoked the fires, the band landed on the March 2008 cover of Spin, which annointed them the year ’s Best New Band before their album had even come out -- a first in the magazine’s history. Looking back, it still seems insane that a bunch of cerebral schoolboys in pastel cardigans could go from cramming at the library to performing on SNL in the span of a couple of semesters. But according to Batmanglij -- the band’s producer, co-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and sole gay member -- Vampire Weekend was meant to be huge. “We all had a strong feeling about the band from the early days,” he says. “We had this opportunity to be really out there and avant-garde, but also commercially successful.”

http://out.com/detail.asp?id=26494

 

[miaedu]

Performing live tonight on SNL.

 

[miaedu]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1EWv6okqDk[/ame]

 

[NomineDetracto]

they sounded really great on SNL, which usually isn't the case on SNL.

 

[miaedu]

damn, they took it down already.

 

[blahster]

love this band...when i hear cuts off their first album it brings back memories of my undergrad days up in berkeley

contra definitely has a different sound from their first album but it still has its share of catchy tracks....holiday, cousins, giving up the gun

 

[tmitm88]

"Diplomat's Son" is probably the best song on the album, that and "Run". I love Vampire Weekend.

 

[miaedu]

More Tour dates:

ampire Weekend:

05-23 Bangor, Wales - Faenol Estate (Radio 1's Big Weekend)

05-29 George, WA - Sasquatch Festival
06-05 Philadelphia, PA - The Roots Picnic at Festival Pier

06-12 Isle of Wright, England - Isle of Wright Festival
06-13 Inverness, Scotland - RockNess Festival
6-14-18 Cefn Sidan Beach, Wales - Beach Break Live
06-17 2010 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg - Rockhal
06-22 Lille, France - L'Aeronef
06-24 Cornwall, England - Eden Project
06-25 Glastonbury, England - Glastonbury Festival
06-27 Nijmegen, Netherlands - Rockin' Park Festival
07-01 Borlange, Sweden - Peace & Love Festival
07-02 Arendal, Norway - Hove Festival
07-04 Werchter, Belgium - Rock Werchter
07-10 Naas, Ireland - Oxegen Festival
07-11 Kinross, Scotland - T in the Park
07-13 Lyon, France - Les Nuits de Fourviere
07-15 Nimes, France - Nimes Festival
07-16 Benicassim, Spain - Benicassim International Festival
07-17 Lisbon, Portugal - Super Bock Super Rock Festival
07-18 Southwold, England - Latitude Festival
07-30 Icheon City, South Korea - Jisan Valley Rock Festival
08-28 Vancouver, British Columbia - Malkin Bowl *^

08-29 Redmond, WA - Marymoor Amphitheater *^
08-31 Troutdale, OR - Edgefield Amphitheater *^
09-03 Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheater *^
09-05 Chicago, IL - Aragon Ballroom *^
09-07 Toronto, Ontario - Molson Canadian Amphitheater *^
09-08 Montreal, Quebec - Metropolis Theater ^
09-11 Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavilion *^
09-12 Boston, MA - Bank of America Pavilion *^
09-15 New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall *^
09-16 New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall *^
09-17 New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall *^
09-26 Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Bowl *%

* with Beach House
^ with Dum Dum Girls
% with the Very Best

 

[miaedu]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vraoiVCDdaM[/ame]