Jan 12, 2011 By Laura Studarus

The Grammy ballot this year is packed with notable artists. Who better to filter through them all than Steven Colbert? Last year’s Best Comedy Album winner had two nominees for Best Alternative Album—Vampire Weekend and The Black Keys—on his show last night to appeal for his vote. We have the video.  More

Dec 20, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Vampire Weekend announced today that they’ll be releasing an iTunes Sessions EP. More

Dec 16, 2010 By Katrina Yentch

Vampire Weekend performed a spur of the moment cover of Cheryl Cole's "Fight for this Love" during a recent BBC Radio 1 Session. The group makes the 90's R&B piece their own with the help of a horn and a catchy guitar riff. More

Dec 02, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Last night, this year’s Grammy nominations were announced. Among the bevy of expected commercial artists (Hello Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Eminem) a fair number of Under the Radar-friendly artists received recognition for their accomplishments More

Oct 10, 2010 By Wendy Lynch Redfern

Check out photos from Day One of ACL Music Festival in Austin, TX. We sent photographer Robert Redfield down to capture the action. Click here to view the full gallery. More

Sep 29, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Hot off last weekend’s Hollywood Bowl debut, Vampire Weekend stopped by Ellen to play “Cousins” and “Holiday,” cuts from sophomore album, Contra. We have the videos More

Sep 03, 2010 By Laura Studarus

So much media so little time. Below is a roundup of all the videos that have been circulating around our office in the last week including: Telekinesis, Vampire Weekend, Dead Man’s Bones and more. More

Aug 30, 2010 By Brie Savard

Vampire Weekend does quite the sufficient cover of Bruce Springsteen's "I'm Going Down" More

Aug 10, 2010 By Hong Le

Vampire Weekend made their second visit to Craig Ferguson, this time performing "White Sky" off their sophomore studio album, Contra. The band is also on tour and will play numerous shows with Beach House and Dum Dum Girls starting August 27 in Vancouver. The Very Best will join Vampire Weekend in late September with their first show at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley. We have the video and tour dates.  More

Jul 19, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Last week, model Kirsten Kennis, whose teenage mug graces Vampire Weekend’s sophomore album Contra, sued the band—claming they didn’t have the legal right to use the 1980s Polaroid. The damages? 2 million dollars. That’s a lot of boat shoes!  After a weekend of silence the band responded. More

Jul 14, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Last week we told you about Best Coast/Rostam Batmanglij/Kid Cudi Converse-sponsored collaboration “All Summer.” Now it appears like the gigantic heads in the promo images have gone to good use. We have the video.  More

Jul 08, 2010 By Laura Studarus

After last time's Pharrell/Santogold/Julian Casablancas mash-up, Converse has once again brought three random artists together for some commerce-related giggles. We have the details.  More

Jun 04, 2010 By Laura Studarus

After hanging out with Conan and announcing a stop on their upcoming tour at Radio City Music Hall, Vampire Weekend continued their plans for New York domination with a stop at The Colbert Report. We have the video. More

Jun 02, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Last night, Conan O’Brien visited his old stomping grounds as "The Legally Prohibited From Being Funny On Television Tour" rolled into New York for a date at Radio City Music Hall. Joining him was Vampire Weekend. We have the fan video of O'Brien playing with the band, plus video of Conan O'Brien's Dance-Off with Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart. More

Jun 02, 2010 By Laura Studarus

As previously announced, Twilight’s newest installment Eclipse includes contributions several Under the Radar-friendly bands including Vampire Weekend, Florence and the Machine, Metric, and a show-stopping duet between Beck and Bat For Lashes. Today, for a scant 24 hours, the powers that be are offering a preview of the album in full. More

May 27, 2010 By Kyle Lemmon

Sometimes it's best to just laugh along with your detractors. Indie-pop foursome Vampire Weekend know this to be true, and the video for "Holiday" is a perfect example. Anyone whose followed the ascendant band know of critics and bloggers calling VW the "Richie" Riches of the indie set. Well, this new vid one-ups the taunts by slapping some aristocratic powdered wigs (17th century-era Versailles) on the group as they cavort around summery beaches/pools with babes, hit up an In-N-Out drive thru, and eat decadent sweets. We have the clip. More

May 18, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Festival fans rejoice, the lineup for 2010’s Austin City Limits has been announced. Lineup includes Muse, Flaming Lips, LCD Soundsystem, Spoon, and Vampire Weekend, among others. We have the full details. More

May 13, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Sad but true, sometimes you can have too much of a good thing. Well, sad for us that is. Swamped with back issues—which I’m all sure we can agree is a good thing—Under the Radar is passing them on to you with a sale on selected issues. The question is, can you have too much of a good thing? We're offering two dollars off most available back issues! More

May 12, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Today the third Twilight film Eclipse's soundtrack was announced. This time Under the Radar-friendly artists Metric, Beck, Bat For Lashes, and Florence and the Machine join the franchise who's last installment included Thom Yorke, Lykke Li, and Grizzly Bear. More

May 07, 2010 By Michele Yamamoto

For the past couple weeks, our writers (namely Laura Studarus, Frank Valish, and Hays Davis) have been working hard to bring you website-exclusive interviews. We've posted a total of 12 interviews since late April, 10 of which were conducted at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. Making it easy to keep up, we've complied an alphabetical list of our most recent interviews. Find links to our interviews with Doves, Jónsi, Vampire Weekend, Beach House, Camera Obscura, Phoenix, Matt and Kim, Florence and the Machine, Local Natives, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Big Pink, and more. More

May 03, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Under the Radar cover artists Vampire Weekend are having a banner year. From topping the Billboard music charts with sophomore album Contra, to spots on Saturday Night Live in their past and scheduled performances at Radio City Music Hall and The Hollywood Bowl in their future, the Ivy-league educated quartet is a far cry from their start as indie darlings who just wanted to play New York's Bowery Ballroom. More

Apr 23, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Didn't catch every band at Coachella you were hoping to see? Never fear! This summer, Hollywood Bowl is hosting several Under the Radar-friendly bands, including Vampire Weekend, Phoenix, and Pavement. We have the dates. More

Apr 17, 2010 By Wendy Lynch Redfern

Apr 15, 2010 By Kyle Lemmon

Glastonbury is a huge British multi-day music festival and this year's lineup is just as epic. The fest will again be at Pilton, England Worthy Farm on June 23-27, and the three major headliners are U2, Muse, and Stevie Wonder. More

Mar 10, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Haiti is still recovering from January's devastating earthquake. Aiding the recovery efforts is a group of musicians and artists who are auctioning off exclusive items to benefit the nation. The project, called Crafts For a Cause, is spearheaded by Binki Shapiro of Little Joy and will go live on March 15th. Among the items up for bidding, an original song by Mark Ronson, a camera painted by Drew Barrymore, and a shirt designed by M. Ward. Other artists involved include: Jenny Lewis, Tegan & Sara, Vampire Weekend, Grizzly Bear, Fleet Foxes, Feist, Conor Obest, Aziz Ansari, Devendra Banhart, Cat Power, Daft Punk, Natalie Portman, The Strokes, and many others. More

Mar 08, 2010 By Kyle Lemmon

Well, that was another terrible Saturday Night Live episode Saturday night. Sigh... Aside from the bits from criminally underutilized host Zach Galifianakis, and to a lesser degree Vampire Weekend, this was a serious letdown. Even VW didn't bring anything new to their growing late-night performance repertoire. The performed Contra tracks sounded almost indentical to their punky, yet fastiduious original recordings. More

Feb 23, 2010 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar's Winter Issue is about to hit stands. Vampire Weekend graces the cover and the issue also includes the Anticipated Albums of 2010 and New Artists in 2010 sections, plus over 140 reviews. The issue includes interviews with Broken Social Scene, Delphic, The Drums, Friendly Fires, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jónsi (from Sigur Rós), Love Is All, MGMT, Midlake, The New Pornographers, of Montreal, Owen Pallett, Panda Bear, Real Estate, She & Him, Surfer Blood, Yeasayer, Bill Willingham (the creator of DC/Vertigo Comics' Fables), and many others. More

Feb 19, 2010 By Michele Yamamoto

Check out the new Vampire Weekend video for "Giving Up the Gun," with guest appearances from Jake Gyllenhaal and the RZA. More

Feb 15, 2010 By Kyle Lemmon

The 2010 Sasquatch! Music Festival lineup thankfully isn't a mystery anymore. The initial list of bands to play at Quincy, WA's bucolic Gorge can be peeped below. The event returns for its ninth year May 29-31 (Memorial Day Weekend) and the recently reunited Pavement, trip-hop progenitors Massive Attack, and reverb-y Southern rockers My Morning Jacket will headline. More

Jan 20, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Under the Radar "Best of 2008" cover artist Vampire Weekend is back with sophomore album, Contra. The court of public opinion has weighted in, and as reported by Billboard.com, the album has debuted as number 1 via Nielsen SoundScan numbers. More

Jan 19, 2010 By Mark Redfern

One of North America's most anticipated music festivals, Coachella, has announced its 2010 line-up. The three-day festival, which takes place in the California desert near Palm Springs April 16 - 18, will feature Jay-Z, Muse, and Gorillaz as the headliners. Other highlights include: Public Image Limited, The Specials, Grace Jones, Echo and the Bunnymen, Pavement, Sly and the Family Stone, Devo, LCD Soundsystem, Vampire Weekend, Grizzly Bear, Fever Ray, She & Him, Yeasayer, MGMT, Hot Chip, Dirty Projectors, Mew, Camera Obscura, Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros, Thom Yorke????, Phoenix, Spoon, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yo La Tengo, Deerhunter, The Big Pink, Florence and the Machine, Owen Pallett, and Local Natives.

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Dec 09, 2009 By Laura Studarus

Canadian band Fucked Up is leading the Christmas charge. With the help of a few friends (including comedian David Cross, Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew, Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio, Yo La Tengo, Bob Mould of Husker Du, Tegan & Sara, and Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend) they've released an updated version of 1980s classic "Do They Know It's Christmas?" More

Nov 19, 2009 By Kyle Lemmon

The loop-y new music video for Vampire Weekend's single "Cousins" is up and making the rounds. You can watch the behind the scenes clip on MTV. Hammer & Tongs (aka Garth Jennings and producer Nick Goldsmith, the men who lensed videos for Blur, Supergrass, eels, and Pulp) directed the clip. Oh yeah, they also helmed VW's equally punky, "A-Punk." Got to love those face-morphing masks. More

Oct 23, 2009 By Kyle Lemmon

There's more Vampire Weekend news coming down the pipeline today. Contra, the band's sophomore LP, isn't out until January 12th, but we've already peeped its leadoff cut, "Horchata." Now MBV reports and Vampire Weekend's publicist corroborates, that the eclectic indie-poppers have another new song waiting in the wings. More

Oct 15, 2009 By Laura Studarus

On November 3rd, David Bowie and Blur will be joining the ranks of Rock Band luminaries The Beatles and Nirvana…with one small difference. More

Oct 05, 2009 By Kyle Lemmon

Vampire Weekend is approaching the promotional cycle for its upcoming sophomore record, Contra, with panache and determination. Their slow viral takeover starts back up today with the debut of album opener "Horchata." More

Sep 15, 2009 By Kyle Lemmon

The Polo-shirt-wearing blonde above is the cover for Vampire Weekend's sophomore LP, Contra. The new full-length will likely bring you more white boy Afro-pop on January 121th. XL is releasing again.

Jun 04, 2010 By Robin Bacior

Thousands of North Westerners packed the normally barren fields of George, WA with bare-bones camping gear and their most exotic festival apparel to witness the epic line-up of Sasquatch! 2010. The list was stacked, and showed why the festival had already sold out by early spring with performances by Mumford and Sons, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, and  Vampire Weekend among others. More

Apr 17, 2010 By Mark Redfern

Coachella 2010 began under the cloud of an erupting volcano. Several of the European artists playing this year had to cancel their Coachella appearances due to the Icelandic volcano eruption grounding all flights from the U.K. and other parts of Europe. So day one of Coachella was greeted with the news that we wouldn't be seeing Frightened Rabbit, Delphic, The Cribs (with Johnny Marr), or Gary Numan after all. And only a few days earlier Mew had already cancelled due to illness. So this year's festival was already starting with some losses, Mew and Delphic probably being the most unfortunate ones. But while there were few artists playing Coachella 2010 who I both hadn't seen before and was dying to see (Pavement being one of them), the lineup was still rigged with enough great artists so that I had little time to eat and take breaks between bands. Here's what I saw during day one. More

Apr 17, 2010 By Laura Ferreiro

The 2010 Coachella Festival kicked off yesterday (April 16) in a chaotic fashion, with massive crowds making it difficult to get onto and off of the grounds and challenging to catch close-up glimpses of the bands. An Icelandic volcano also threw a wrench into the works, making it impossible for artists including The Cribs and Bad Lieutenant to fly from England to California to perform. That said, stellar sets by Vampire Weekend, Them Crooked Vultures and La Roux, among others, made fighting through the crowds and braving the heat worthwhile. More