TAG: Vampire Weekend

Mar17

A-Trak links with Nike, Jay-Z

As if he wasn’t busy enough building his Fool’s Gold Label, making beats for Kid Sister and Amanda Blank and backing Kanye on tour, A-Trak’s found time to prep what he’s calling his debut album and help Jay-Z put together his next show.

In a blog on his MySpace, the Canadian DJ is letting loose with the news that his debut album will be his contribution to the Nike Original Run Series. His 45-minute contribution will follow in the footsteps of LCD Soundsystem and Aesop Rock. As for him and Jigga, well A-Trak turned down an offer to back him on tour, but couldn’t pass up the chance to help out as a musical director.

He really explains it all best himself:

OK so the 2 sentences in the title aren’t exactly related but they’re both pretty exciting. …

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Feb09

Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend (Review)

Vampire Weekend

Vampire Weekend

Released by XL Recordings


My gosh fishes, this octopus has its tentacles reaching for all points of this vast ocean. Over the past couple of months, the NY outfit Vampire Weekend has been acquiring a decent amount of hype through their touring with already buzz-heazy groups like Animal Collective but more appropriately for their esoteric melding of African pop and Classical musics. The vocals from Ezra Koenig and Rostam Batmangli are always upbeat, often aloof and usually self-concerned allegorical tales, delivered Sahara dry. However, this dulled down vocal style creates beautiful dichotomy ...

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Feb05

Band immortalizes geek chic (Video)

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Jan17

Hot Chip & Peter Gabriel cover Vampire Weekend

That popping sound you heard in the distance was actually Pitchfork’s collective scrotums. While they clean up the mess, please listen to the stream of Hot Chip w/Peter Gabriel covering Vampire Weekend’s “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa,” on Abeano Music, although honestly, it’s limper than a Graceland outtake (I kinda love me some Graceland). Hot Chip should really cool out on the wtf special releases (see last week’s pairing with Robert Wyatt) and get down to making some new jams (I laugh as I call Hot Chip “jams.”)

STREAM: Hot Chip w/Peter Gabrial “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa”

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Jan06

Diplo, Pizza and a Hot Dog

The Mad Decent tour hit LA Nov 4th with Diplo, Abe Vigoda, Telepathe, and a dancing Hot Dog and Pizza (courtesy of Diplo). Whenever a pause in music appeared, people yelled OBAMA! They were psyched, even at a non-election night affiliated party where they got nothing for free, except smiles and the sweat falling off other people.

Telepathe’s an interesting concept. Mellow in demeanor, but throw a thick gold chain on that chillness and you get these wild colors and a pretty heady beat barrage, growing expansive while remaining very contained. Like a haiku.

In case you wonder, Abe Vigoda was an actor. He played …

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