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 ...

Happy Birthday to Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig, who turned the big 4-0 on April 8, 2024. Koenig co-founded the band in 2006 while he and the group’s three other original members were attending ...

In 2011, I made up a rubric for assessing the output of musical artists. I called it The Five-Albums Test. Well, I didn’t exactly “make it up.” I took something that music fans were already doing ...

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 ...

Vampire Weekend fans have been left shocked after learning the real meaning behind the band's name nearly 20 years since they formed. The American indie rock band, currently signed to Columbia Records ...

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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 appear as a last-minute addition to the lineup for this weekend’s Coachella festival. Coachella said on social media Tuesday that the popular indie-rock band would play the ...

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 ...

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?