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Columbia’s current favorite sons, Vampire Weekend, seem to be doing pretty well for themselves lately. With their full-length album coming out in three days and two sold-out shows at Bowery Ballroom kicking off a national tour next week. “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa” was Rolling Stone‘s 67th best song of the year, and a snarky Pitchfork review can’t be more than two weeks in coming, considering the backlash that we’ve seen — without an album even having been released!
On the local front, Columbian Jared Hecht passed along his interview with the group, over at Jambands. The phrase “Upper West Side Soweto” appears more than once.
(If you still haven’t heard VW, there are some pretty good free samples on Daytrotter.)
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@pitchfork's blessing http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/48053-vampire-weekend
@their vocals need more tech support or something.
@Anonymous GQ had an article about them as well. Go Ezra & co.!
@'11 Why no mention of the fact that they were filming a music video on campus (even in John Jay dining hall!!) over winter break?
@right now they are filming in ADP
@... coachella fucking sucks this year…
@Anonymous Are you their PR bitches or something bwog? I don’t really care that someone who once knew someone who may have had a cousin who slept with a dude who went to Columbia has a band, and I speak for everyone who doesn’t know these people personally.
@wow get your ass in the loop. these guys were all CC’07. it’s a campus band that’s gone far in under a year.
@oops well not all CC’07, but they all graduated from columbia within the last 7 years
@I mean Two years ago they were playing ADP coffeebhaus for free, now they’re playing sell out shows at bowry ballroom and opening for the Shins? I think they were all 06 or 07…I’d say its relevant and interesting news.
@And they’re playing Coachella! Too bad the overall lineup isn’t great enough to persuade me to go back again this year.
@Anonymous Jared Hecht has shitty taste in music.
@Also There are a couple of videos featured on La Blogotheque’s Les Concerts a Emporter page right now.