[FDL] Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

Brought to their attention by this thread: http://www.casualdiscourse.com/forum...ead.php?t=1469

Would love to share their music with you.

Wikipedia Information

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Vampire Weekend is an indie rock band from New York, formed in 2006 and signed to XL Recordings.
History

Vampire Weekend's moniker is derived from lead singer Ezra Koenig's amateur film of the same name. The band gained attention via a variety of blogs, such as Stereogum.The band is influenced by both African popular music and Western classical music, describing their genre of music as "Upper West Side Soweto", performing such songs as "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa", and "Oxford Comma", which references Congolese soukous music. An alternative description of their sound—"trust fund frat rock"—was given by fellow musician Nicholas Thorburn.


The members of the band met while attending Columbia University; they then self-produced their first album after graduation while concurrently working full-time jobs. Lead vocalist Ezra Koenig and drummer Chris Tomson first collaborated as members of the comedy-rap band "L'Homme Run".


In 2007, Vampire Weekend's song, "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa", was ranked 67th on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of the year. In November 2007, they toured the United Kingdom with The Shins. They were declared "The Year's Best New Band" by Spin magazine in the March 2008 issue, and were the first band to be shot for the cover of the magazine before releasing their debut album.
In 2008, Vampire Weekend were dubbed the "whitest band" by Christian Lander, the creator of the site Stuff White People Like, in an interview with Salon.com.


On October 12, 2008, Vampire Weekend played a fundraiser concert in New York City for Music for Democracy, where they shared the stage with David Crosby and Graham Nash.
Vampire Weekend is managed by Ian Montone, who also manages The White Stripes.

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Myspace link: http://www.myspace.com/vampireweekend


Their first CD:

Vampire Weekend

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• Ezra Koenig – lead vocals, guitar, piano, hand drum
• Rostam Batmanglij – organ, chamberlin, piano, harpsichord, guitar, vocal harmonies, drum and synth programming, shaker, producer, string arrangements, engineering, mixing
• Chris Baio – bass
• Christopher Tomson – drums, guitar
• Hamilton Berry – cello
• Jonathan Chu – violin, viola
• Jeff Curtin – hand drums, shaker
• Wesley Miles – vocals
• Jessica Pavone – violin, viola
• Joey Roth – hand drums

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1. "Mansard Roof" – 2:07
2. "Oxford Comma" – 3:15
3. "A-Punk" – 2:17
4. "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" – 3:33
5. "M79" (Vampire Weekend, Koenig, Rostam Batmanglij) – 4:14
6. "Campus" – 2:55
7. "Bryn" – 2:12
8. "One (Blake's Got a New Face)" (Vampire Weekend, Koenig, Slinger Francisco) – 3:11
9. "I Stand Corrected" – 2:38
10. "Walcott" – 3:39
11. "The Kids Don't Stand a Chance" – 4:03

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Vampire Weekend has been playing in my bathroom for the past month.

I like listening to them in the morning, sets a nice tone for the day.

I'd be all over this if I didn't already have it, this is suuuch a sick album. I literally haven't met anyone who hasn't loved this band. I'm so ready for their next album (whenever it comes out)

Very not bad. I'll probably be illegally downloading it later.

I'll download it when I get in tonight, I just found it humorous that the guy that manages The White Stripes is one letter away from Ian Monotone.

Pretty cool. I usually don't like this kind of music, but there's just something about this...

I have this album, but haven't listened to it in a while.
Thank you for bringing this back to my attention.

Fucking love them. I forget how I found out about them, but they were one of those bands that you find ahead of everyone else. Oh, I read a 2 sentence blurb about them on EW.com and decided to check them out. I had their LP playing on my computer for a month waiting for their CD to come out.