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| Thursday, September 04, 2008 |
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Festival Season: Vampire Weekend
By Orange Peel Moses @ 9:13 PM :: 189 Views ::
0 Comments :: Music: Artist Spotlight, Events, Music: Concerts
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wordplay: Ben Simkins
What does Columbia University, the Internet, African popular music and a student film about Vampires with scary masks on have in common? Two words: Vampire Weekend.
Whether you think it’s for good or bad, the Internet has changed the music industry forever. Whether from the spreading peer2peer problem or just the pure fact that it’s made the world smaller, allowing relative nobodies to become overnight successes with sites like MySpace, things have changed and A&R agents are only now really getting on board. Vampire Weekend come from such a background, finding a home for their self-titled debut album with XL Recordings (White Stripes, Beck and Radiohead) after self-producing it in environments ranging from basements to barns.
Hailing from N.Y. and forming in ’06 while attending Columbia University, the band got its name from an amateur film of the same name by lead singer Ezra Koenig. With a heavily African influenced sound, giving it a feel not unfamiliar to a modern day Police, Vampire weekend are the perfect soundtrack for summer ’08. Their 80s themed videos do nothing to subdue this feeling, actually adding to their charm. These guys might be heralded as the band to watch in ’08 but for me, I’d prefer to just throw them on my iPod, roll down the windows of my car and daydream that I’m trapped in a (good) John Hughes film.
Cue music!
September 13th @ Monolith Fest (Red Rocks)
VampireWeekend.com
MonolithFestival.com
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