Vampire Weekend

Kasabian, The Chemical Brothers, Paolo Nutini and Glasvegas set for RockNess 2011

Line-up also includes DJ Shadow, Frightened Rabbit, Magnetic Man

24 Feb 2011

Rockness, Scotland's fastest growing festival, returns for 2011 with some of the hottest new acts in guitar music, while simultaneously remaining true to its electronic roots. Looking at the line-up, combined with winning NME's 'Best Small Festival…

Ezra Koenig has no Christmas traditions

Music Gossip

18 Dec 2010

Ezra Koenig doesn't have any festive traditions. The Vampire Weekend singer has not yet made any definite plans for Christmas Day (25.12.10) or New Year's Eve (31.12.10) this year as he likes to make more spontaneous decisions. He said: "I think…

Vampire Weekend ready to record again

Music Gossip

23 Aug 2010

Vampire Weekend are already preparing for their third album. Although the group only released second LP 'Contra' in January, they can't wait to get started on a follow-up record, even though they are unsure what musical direction to take their music…

The Sowetan smell of success - Vampire Weekend interview

30 Jun 2010

It’s hard work being in a globally successful breakthrough world/funk/pop band. Chris Baio of Vampire Weekend finally manages a chat with David Pollock

Muse, Eminem and Kasabian are T in the Park 2010 headliners

The Prodigy, Jay-Z and Vampire Weekend also on Balado festival bill

23 Feb 2010

Muse, Eminem and Kasabian will headline the main stage at T In The Park 2010. Other major acts on the bill include Black Eyed Peas, The Prodigy and Jay-Z. The festival dates are Friday 9th. Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th July 2010. The campsite is…

Vampire Weekend set for Edinburgh and Glasgow dates

1 Feb 2010

Upon the release of their eponymous debut album almost exactly two years ago, it seemed possible to bracket Vampire Weekend as a novelty band. They were four preppy middle class New York kids taking the traditional sounds of impoverished African folk…

Vampire Weekend - Contra

6 Jan 2010

(XL) Where would these Ivy League afro-pop boffins be without Paul Simon’s Graceland? Half an album short of songs on their second long-player, Contra, that’s where. If the New York quartet’s much-hyped debut merged African rhythms and art-rock…

Songs of the Year 2008

11 Dec 2008

‘Skinny Love’ Bon Iver One man’s heartbreak becomes our joy from the album of the year. ‘Like the Rest of Us’ Atmosphere The leftfield dwelling purists may sneer but this is beguiling, introspective hip hop brilliance. ‘Run Run’ Those Dancing Days…

Musicians' guide: How to make it in the music industry

27 Nov 2008

Want to make it in music? Fancy yourself as The Next Big Thing? Claire Sawers and Malcolm Jack track down nine very different people currently working in the industry and quiz them on just what they do and how they do it In addition, for detailed…

T in the Park - Up-and-comers

3 Jul 2008

MGMT What Psychedelic synth-pop duo from Brooklyn Unique Selling Point They sound wonderfully woozy on record but the MGMT live experience reveals a harder, darker and much more edgy side to the band. Imagine full-on swampy rock colliding with…

Vampire Weekend

24 Apr 2008

The Paul Simon revival, inexplicably, just might start here. Preppy New York quartet Vampire Weekend borrow elements of their sound from Afrobeat, post-punk and new wave, but the fact of four well-off white kids co-opting African rhythms can’t fail to…

Indie record stores unite

10 Apr 2008

Glasgow and Edinburgh's independent record store Avalanche Records is to head up the Coalition of UK Indie Stores, a trade body which will fight for the interests of independent music shops across the UK. The initial grouping includes 15 of the…

Vampire Weekend and Michael Franti announce Scottish dates

26 Feb 2008

New York’s most sartorially astute indie kids Vampire Weekend capitalise on the success of their new self-titled debut album with a pair of dates this spring. They will play Liquid Room, Edinburgh on 3 May and Oran Mor, Glasgow, 3 May. Less dapper but…

Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

31 Jan 2008

(XL Recordings) INDIE Indie rock has taken many wilful turns in its ragged adolescence but the predilection for smartening up and tuning up has been one that’s arrived to infrequently for most. Vampire Weekend look like dropouts from an Abercrombie…

Vampire Weekend and Chutes

13 Dec 2007

Hobo at the Bongo Club, Edinburgh, Sun 11 Nov The unexpectedly large Sunday night turnout here was no doubt down to the appearance of New York’s Vampire Weekend, a band much-touted by Radio One in recent weeks. Edinburgh’s Chutes weren’t just here to…