XL released a DJ-targeted 12" of Vampire Weekend single "Giving Up The Gun" in early June, and you can hear a bit of the track's b-side mix (the a-side is an extended version of the single) below.…   Read Story »

Vampire Weekend made to The Colbert Report last night, sharing a stage for the second time this week with Colbert (both were at O'Brien's Radio City Music Hall show earlier this week). As with the…   Read Story »

You heard Vampire Weekend's "Jonathan Low" (one of VW's top three songs about vampires) and before that Muse's “Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)” (inescapable at vampire proms this…   Read Story »

The last time Scott and I went to Radio City Music Hall, we saw Peter Gabriel harness a spotlight with a mirrored power glove and bathe the crowd in its reflected light beam, backed by an orchestra,…   Read Story »

As mentioned, Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij went and remixed Jack Johnson's To The Sea opener "You And Your Heart" using his Boys Like Us handle. The results? The mellowest electronics ever.…   Read Story »

The new revenue stream for indie rock is vampires. Beck did True Blood, and for the second straight installment Twilight's sucking blood from bands you probably maybe listen to. The Twilight: Eclipse…   Read Story »

Vampire Weekend clips are always fussy, always a little funny, and they hit both with their new clip for third Contra single Holiday. In this clip the band drive around So Cal dressed as 18th century…   Read Story »

After Thom Yorke, Bon Iver & St. Vincent, and Grizzly Bear & Beach House made soundtracks to multi-million dollar hormonal-teenage-vampires-in-love franchises a safe place for indie artists…   Read Story »

Although we're told Boys Like Us is the handle for Vampire Weekend keyboardist/songwriter/arranger/producer/sound-sculptor/rainbow-guitar-strap enthusiast Rostam Batmanglij's solo creations, so far…   Read Story »

Four years into my Coachella career and I've never experienced an Indio spring so mild. It's a gift from the gods meaning Brooklynites like Scott and I can wear jeans all weekend, a blessing with the…   Read Story »