The members of Vampire Weekend are very good at this. Gathered on a recent afternoon to talk about the band’s fifth album, “Only God Was Above Us,” frontman Ezra Koenig, bassist Chris Baio and drummer ...

It's been nearly five years since Vampire Weekend released Father of the Bride, the blog era-defining rock band's fourth studio album. Work on the follow-up has been ongoing since at least 2021, and ...

The musician and producer's latest solo album explores his Persian musical heritage - and warns against division and ...

Inspired in part by Zohran Mamdani’s NY mayorship, Rostam Batmanglij’s gorgeous new album fuses Americana with sounds of the Middle East. So why isn’t his mum happy?

On its fifth album, suffused with thoughts of 20th-century New York City, indie-rock’s pop maximalists get noisier — but it’s a journey out of negativity into “something a little deeper.” From left: ...

Vampire Weekend will hit the road this summer for a lengthy tour in support of their upcoming album Only God Was Above Us. Following the band’s sold-out, album-introducing, solar eclipse show in ...

Earlier in June, Vampire Weekend announced a vinyl-only live album series beginning with the already released Frog On The Bass Drum Vol. 01 Live In Indianapolis, which is made up of recordings from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is the band’s second album sans founding member Rostam Batmanglij, though the multi-instrumentalist, who left the full-time ...

Vampire Weekend broke their five-year silence with “Capricorn” and “Gen-X Cops,” two singles that Uproxx’s Steven Hyden listed among his “Favorite Music Of February 2024.” Only God Was Above Us, the ...

As LCD Soundsystem once prophesied, the hot New York bands have now traded their guitars and bought … sitars? Maybe, anyway, according to new information about Vampire Weekend’s next album. The band ...

Before Vampire Weekend played their breakthrough single “A-Punk” at their second of two consecutive Madison Square Garden shows, they shouted out Pete’s Candy Store, the small Brooklyn bar where the ...