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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?

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 ...

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 ...

Except for maybe Halloween, could Miami have asked for a better night to see a band called Vampire Weekend than on Friday the 13th? For those unfamiliar, the New York City-born and -bred band doesn’t ...

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 ...

It’s 12.45 p.m. on day two of Outside Lands. Vendors are opening up their stalls, bleary-eyed festivalgoers with Doechii hangovers wander the Polo Field sipping lattes, and the biggest band to play ...

Vampire Weekend‘s Only God Was Above Us tour has officially hit NJ for their first shows in the state in 16 years. They’re in the midst of a four-show run at Wellmont Theater, which at a capacity of ...

9:09 a.m. Oct. 9, 2024: An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to Chris Baio as Vampire Weekend’s drummer. The band’s drummer is Chris Tomson. The members of Vampire Weekend are very ...