Results for Vampire Weekend

  • Your Handy Guide to the Month in Music

    by Mike ConklinJune 4, 2008Comments (5)

    "... the leak was pre-meditated, a subtle way for the band to tell us, 'Look, here it is: You’ve got your favorite record of the summer, just in time for all your Memorial Day BBQs.'" (read more)

  • Your Handy Guide to the Month in Music

    by Mike ConklinApril, 30, 2008Comments (0)

    Would you guys respect me less if I told you that, for my money, the most exciting thing going on in the music industry is featured twice a week on national television? It would, wouldn’t it? Well, It’s a good thing I’m so much more concerned with summer festivals and R.E.M. than any of that crap, isn’t it? (read more)

  • Black Lips: Ambassadors of Rock 'n' Roll

    by Andres JaureguiApril 23, 2008Comments (3)

    Publicity stunt or not, that the Black Lips braved a veritable war zone to play a show for some kids is a pretty significant thing for a band that made a name for themselves swapping bodily fluids on stage while playing blistering, psyched-out hillbilly punk-rock. (read more)

  • Your Handy Guide to the Month in Music

    by Mike ConklinApril 2, 2008Comments (1)

    It's been a pretty weird month for the music industry. Artists sued record labels, bands continued to release records in unusual new ways, giant soft-drink companies taunted dinosaur rock acts, one of the world's biggest bands signed a revolutionary new contract (read more)

  • Robyn Hitchcock: Spooked

    by Denise SullivanFebruary 27, 2008Comments (3)

    I'm crazy about Robyn Hitchcock's music, and have been ever since Peter Buck sang praises of Hitchcock's ’70s band the Soft Boys to us slavish R.E.M. followers in the ’80s. By then the Soft Boys had disbanded and Hitchcock was officially a solo artist, sometimes accompanied by his band (read more)