Band of the Week: Vampire Weekend

[February 4-10]
Vampire Weekend
Sounds Like: Indie-Pop
Drinking Buddies: The New Amsterdams, Bishop Allen, Ra Ra Riot
Synopsis: Indie-pop + Afro-beat + Reggae
Makes You Want To...: Read a book; Watch a play; Dance; Go to college.
[Myspace]




One week, one band. You know the drill.
This week, the featured artist is Vampire Weekend


I fully admit, I'm still on my kick of Vampire Weekend music. We'll just launch right into this, shall we? Vampire Weekend is a collective of well-read and bubbly musicians from New York City who make some catchy, bouncy indie-pop. Taking tons of inspiration from Afro-pop, as well as Westernized pop, Vampire Weekend exudes foot tapping, head nodding actions, not to mention tons of smiles! The lyrics are quite clever (any band who can quote Lil Jon gets props from me), and they can capture all moods - from slow to fast songs - from happy to laid back.

Vampire Weekend literally put out their debut, self-titled album at the end of Januarary, so it's fresh off the presses and ready for your listening pleasure. If you couldn't guess, they have a Myspace, which you should check out now-ish. They also performed some live stuff on Daytrotter, which you can download for free, of course. The faster version of "I Stand Corrected" is well worth the visit. They also have a video for their single, "A-Punk," which I talked about in my last post. One thing I didn't mention is that they also have a neat video for "Mansard Roof," which was filmed very retro, in the style of 70s/80s movies.

In any case, that's it for this week! Until next time, have a blast and stuff.