The people in charge of the francophonic music blog extraordinaires La Blogotheque do what we can only dream: beyond writing up some amazing articles for your French-knowledged yeux, with their series of videos - Les concerts à emporter (Take Away Shows) - they're able to get up-close and personal with some of our favourite bands. Yo La Tengo, Sigur Rós, Okkerville River, and Phoenix; it's not enough for them to expertly film performances so wonderfully, but the musicians they ask to film are some growing names in the music industry.
La Blogotheque also has a new series of videos; Soirée de poche. If you were reading Voilà! several months ago, you would've caught the last time we mentioned the Soirée de poche series, when they showed a very intimate, fun performance with Kings of Convenience. Well, the Soirée de poche has filmed another amazing performance, this one by a certain band that Voilà! is all too fond of.
Vampire Weekend released Contra last month, and considering that it was the 12th indie album in history to make it to the number one spot on Billboard's 200, I'm going to have to say it was a pretty big success. No doubt to coincide with this release, Vampire Weekend hooked up with La Blogotheque for their very own unplugged session of Soirée de poche à Paris. About half an hour of awesome songs, old and new. You can check it out right here on Voilà!, or wander on over to La Blogotheque and see it there. Or, feel more than free to visit Vampire Weekend's Myspace and catch some of their songs and videos there!
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