Showing posts with label Giving up the Gun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Giving up the Gun. Show all posts
Friday, February 19, 2010
VAMPIRE WEEKEND DEBUTS VIDEO FOR 'GIVING UP THE GUN'
Vampire Weekend's bizarre new video features a lot of tennis and some guest appearances by the likes of Rza and Jake Gyllenhaal. Without further ado, check out Vampire Weekend's video for 'Giving up the Gun':
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Review: Vampire Weekend - Contra
Vampire Weekend’s second album, Contra, comes as one of 2010’s most anticipated releases and only misses a few notes on the harpsichord. The band hardly departs from their noted Reggae and Afro-Beat 'roots' (um, ya know... from growing up on the streets of suburban New England or from enduring the rough and tumble bedlam of Ivy League dorm-life) as Contra successfully continues the quartet’s unique style of academic-rock fused with world rhythms in a way that is more mature, layered and complex than their original, genre-defining release. Yet, the band remains true to their initial mission statement: to create music you hadn’t already heard a thousand times- or even once- before.
(Vampire Weekend's new album Contra review after the jump. Click below to READ MORE.)
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