Ezra Koenig met his future bandmates while studying at Columbia University in New York. After graduation, he taught English, but Vampire Weekend’s record deal ended his time teaching kids about the ...

Before Vampire Weekend played their breakthrough single “A-Punk” at their second of two consecutive Madison Square Garden shows, they shouted out Pete’s Candy Store, the small Brooklyn bar where the ...

Vampire Weekend brought their newly launched 2025 tour to Essex Junction, Vermont’s Champlain Valley Expo last night. The band resumed a trend of devoting the start of each encore to taking cover ...

Let’s start with the headline. In Only God Was Above Us, Vampire Weekend sound like Vampire Weekend again. Father of the Bride (2019) was a sunny folk-rock record where roughly half of the tracks felt ...

Vampire Weekend have announced Weekend at The Garden, a limited edition double live album which is out now. It’s the third volume in the band’s Frog on the Bass Drum live album series and was recorded ...

“We got on the phone with them and they basically wanted not a bad pop song, but kind of a… They played me references and stuff for what they were looking for, and they already had some lyrics,” ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vampire Weekend's Chris Tomson, from left, Ezra Koenig and Chris Baio in Los Angeles. (Jennifer McCord / For The Times) For the ...

NAME: Vampire Weekend PROGRESS REPORT: Turning in their second album, Contra. Recorded at Treefort Studios in Brooklyn and Topetitud in Mexico City. Yesterday was officially XL Recordings' due date ...

In April, Vampire Weekend released their first album in five years, Only God Was Above Us, which Uproxx’s Steven Hyden named among his “Favorite Albums Of 2024 So Far.” The album could have been even ...

This weekend, Vampire Weekend occupied the great Madison Square Garden on their Only God Was Above Us tour. With DJ/producer Mark Ronson and the Billy Joel cover band Turnstiles (they play more than ...

Editor's note: This page has been updated to include more of the conversation between Bob Boilen and Ezra Koenig. Ezra Koenig spends a lot of his time thinking about, well, time. For the past 10 years ...