The groundbreaking Big Ears Festival – slated for the weekend of March 26-28, 2010 in Knoxville, Tennessee – is excited to unveil the initial line up for this year's event. Read More
When Vampire Weekend's enormously successful self-titled debut album dropped in early 2008, it established the quartet of preppy Columbia University grads as an indie band like no other—their deft embrace of the rhythms of reggaeton and African pop yielded some seriously hypnotic pop rock. Read More
Last year, the Big Ears Music Festival raised eyebrows after rounding up the likes of Antony and the Johnsons, Negativland, Matmos, and Dan Deacon and bringing them to Knoxville, Tennessee for its inaugural incarnation. Read More
Garth Jennings is better known to most folks as one half (along with Nick Goldsmith ) of the music video and commercial directing duo, Hammer & Tongs . Read More
Vampire Weekend will play a free gig in London on February 3, it's been announced. Read More
To get a sense of how quickly things happened for Vampire Weekend, consider that the New York City indie-pop band was shot for the cover of Spin magazine before its first album even came out. Read More
People spend a lot of time poking around for the edgy new underground thing, convinced that plain old pop songs have been done to death. Read More
Vampire Weekend have announced that they will play an intimate free gig in London on February 3. Read More
My producer Nick [Goldsmith] is good friends with Richard Russell, who runs their label, XL Recordings. Read More
Please buy the album if you like what you hear. Read More
Describing their sound as "Upper West Side Soweto," New York City's Vampire Weekend mixes preppy, well-read indie rock with ... Read the full Vampire Weekend bio.