Jan 10, 2025 By Austin Saalman

By the time Vampire Weekend graced the cover of Under the Radar’s Winter 2010 issue, the quirkily hip, Ivy League-educated musical foursome had since risen to prominence as leading harbingers of experimental-yet-accessible, intellectual-yet-relatable millennial indie pop. More

Dec 29, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar tends to handle our best albums of the year lists differently than most other music publications. More

Apr 12, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Vampire Weekend released a new album, Only God Was Above Us, last week via Columbia. This week, they were guests on The Daily Show, where they performed the album’s “Mary Boone” and were interviewed. They also sat in with the jam band Goose at The Capitol Theater in Port Chester, NY, where they performed the album’s “Gen-X Cops” and did an extended 30-minute plus jam of “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa,” from the band’s self-titled debut album. And they also covered Grateful Dead’s “Peggy-O.” More

Mar 29, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the eleventh Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Marc Abbott, Mark Moody, Matt the Raven, Scott Dransfield, and Stephen Humphries helped me decide what should make the list. It was a strong seven days for new tracks, so we settled on a Top 13 this week, narrowed down from the 24 songs we seriously considered. More

Mar 28, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Vampire Weekend are releasing a new album, Only God Was Above Us, on April 5 via Columbia. Now they have shared its fourth single, “Mary Boone.” More

Mar 15, 2024 By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip)

Welcome to the ninth Songs of the Week of 2024. It was a somewhat slow week for new songs, perhaps because a lot of the music industry is at SXSW, but there were more than enough that impressed us. More

Mar 14, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Vampire Weekend are releasing a new album, Only God Was Above Us, on April 5 via Columbia. Now they have shared its third single, “Classical,” via a music video. The song features saxophonist Henry Solomon and the video features a whole lot of green screen, as well as the band’s drum tech, Josh Goldsmith. More

Feb 16, 2024 By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip)

Welcome to the sixth Songs of the Week of 2024. It was a stacked week for new tracks. Vampire Weekend released two songs and they both made the list (and might’ve charted even higher if they had just put out one song and not split the vote). Even most of the honorable mentions are great this week and would’ve made the main list on other weeks. More

Feb 16, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Vampire Weekend are releasing a new album, Only God Was Above Us, on April 5 via Columbia. As promised when the album was announced last week, the band have now shared its first two singles: “Capricorn” and “Gen-X Cops.” Both were shared via music videos that reference the album’s cover artwork and feature vintage footage of New York City. More

Feb 08, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Vampire Weekend have announced a new album, Only God Was Above Us, and shared a trailer for the album. Two new songs, “Gen-X Cops” and “Capricorn,” are promised for next week. More

Sep 15, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Last night, Phoenix made an appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, where they performed their newest single, “Tonight,” with Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend. More

Sep 07, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Phoenix have announced the release of their first new album in five years, Alpha Zulu, which will be out on November 4 via Loyaute/Glassnote. They have also shared a video for a new single from the album, “Tonight,” featuring Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend. More

Dec 01, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Rostam (formerly of Vampire Weekend) has released the second part of his remix project, Changephobia Remixes, a collection of remixes of tracks from his newest album Changephobia. The second part features remixes from Japanese Wallpaper, EasyFun, Neelamjit Dhillon, Ben Böhmer, and ROTH BART BARON. More

Nov 04, 2021 By Joshua Mellin

The Bay Area’s preeminent music festival returned for a special Halloween edition with Outside Lands in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park boasting headliners Lizzo; Vampire Weekend; Tyler, the Creator; and The Strokes. There were also some special costumed appearances by Tame Impala as The Wiggles and Caroline Polachek as Marie Antoinette. Under the Radar photographer Joshua Mellin was on the ground to capture the revelry, including photos of Angel Olsen, Sharon Van Etten, Yves Tumor, and others. More

Apr 06, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Rostam (formerly of Vampire Weekend) has shared the title track from his upcoming album Changephobia, which is due out June 4 via Matsor Projects (via Secretly Distribution). More

Mar 18, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Baio (Vampire Weekend’s Chris Baio) has shared an animated video for his song “Take It from Me.” The song was featured on his most recent album, Dead Hand Control, which came out back in January on Glassnote. More

Mar 02, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Rostam (formerly of Vampire Weekend) has announced that his second solo album, Changephobia, will be out June 4 on his own label Matsor Projects (via Secretly Distribution). He has also shared a new song from the album titled “4Runner.” More

Feb 04, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Vampire Weekend have shared a new EP entitled 40:42, featuring two interpretations of the song “2021” from their most recent album Father of the Bride. The first interpretation, entitled “2021 (in the space between two pieces of wood) is by saxophonist Sam Gendel, and the second, “2021 (January 5th, to be exact)” is by rock quintet Goose. More

Jan 29, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Baio (Vampire Weekend’s Chris Baio) has released his third solo album, Dead Hand Control, today via Glassnote. Now that the album is out you can stream the whole thing here. We also recently posted a podcast interview with Baio, as part of the Why Not Both podcast we present. More

Jan 27, 2021 By Laura Studarus

Yup, we’re back at it! Every week, in partnership with Why Not Both podcast, we’ll be presenting new podcast episodes that explore how multiple passions inform the inspiring lives of musicians, writers, actors, and creatives. In our season opener, we spent time with Chris Baio, exploring what it means to release his new solo album during a year of tumultuous events. More

Jan 15, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Baio (Vampire Weekend’s Chris Baio) is releasing his third solo album, Dead Hand Control, on January 29 via Glassnote. Now he has shared two new songs from the album: title track “Dead Hand Control” and “Take It from Me.” More

Nov 18, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Baio (Vampire Weekend’s Chris Baio) has announced his third solo album, Dead Hand Control, and shared its first two singles, “Endless Me, Endlessly” and “What Do You Say When I’m Not There?,” via videos for the new songs. More

Oct 28, 2020 By Chris Baio

With next Tuesday’s election day looming and millions of Americans already voting early, we put the word out to see if any musicians wanted to write about why they were voting for Former Vice President Joe Biden over President Donald Trump in a series we are simply calling Why I’m Voting for Biden. Chris Baio, who is not only the bassist for Vampire Weekend but has also released two solo albums simply under his last name for Glassnote, wrote this entry. More

May 06, 2020 By Samantha Small

This past week it was the one year anniversary of Father of the Bride, the fourth album from indie-pop heroes Vampire Weekend. To celebrate, lead vocalist Ezra Koenig joined Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show: At Home Edition as the musical guest to perform a solo piano-medley of popular tracks from the Grammy Award winning album. More

Feb 03, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

The Iowa Caucuses are finally today. After months and months of campaigning and multiple debates, tonight we’ll get the first real sense of who might get the Democratic nomination and face up against President Donald Trump. Bernie Sanders is doing well in the polls, but there’s no guarantee he’ll win. However, he still has strong support from big indie rock musicians and in the past few days both Bon Iver and Vampire Weekend have performed at Iowa rallies for the Vermont senator. More

Jan 27, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Vampire Weekend won the Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album (for Father of the Bride) and Cage The Elephant won for Best Rock Album (for Social Cues). Gary Clark Jr. and Tool also won Rock awards. Watch all the acceptance speeches here. More

Dec 12, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Vampire Weekend released a new album, Father of the Bride, back in May via Columbia/Spring Snow. Last night they stopped by The Late Late Show with James Corden to perform the album’s “Harmony Hall.” They were accompanied by a kids choir and started with a cover of Vince Guaraldi’s “Christmas Time Is Here” from the classic Peanuts TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas. More

Nov 20, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

The 2020 Grammy Awards nominations have been announced and they are surprisingly solid by Grammy standards. There are actual good albums up for Album of the Year, including the newest by Vampire Weekend, Bon Iver, and Lana Del Rey. More

May 20, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Vampire Weekend released a new album, Father of the Bride, earlier this month via Columbia/Spring Snow. Now they have shared a video for the album’s “This Life.” The song features backing vocals from Danielle Haim of HAIM, who also appears in the video alongside frontman Ezra Koenig. More

May 13, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Vampire Weekend released a new album, Father of the Bride, the Friday before last via Columbia/Spring Snow. Now Billboard reports that the album has debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart. More

May 10, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Vampire Weekend released a new album, Father of the Bride, last Friday via Columbia/Spring Snow (it was our Album of the Week and you can stream it here). Last night the band stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! to perform the album’s “Sunflower.” It was a truly great late night TV performance. More

May 08, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Vampire Weekend released a new album, Father of the Bride, last Friday via Columbia/Spring Snow. Last night the band stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to perform two tracks from the album: “This Life” on the broadcast show and “Jerusalem, New York, Berlin” as a web-exclusive. For the former they were aided by all three members of HAIM and the latter performance featured Danielle Haim (who is featured prominently on several tracks on the album), but not her sisters. More

May 03, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Vampire Weekend have released a new album, Father of the Bride, today via Columbia/Spring Snow and it’s our Album of the Week. Find into on the album below, as well as on two runner-ups that were almost our Album of the Week. Below that are streams of other notable albums released today. More

May 03, 2019 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. There were lots of great new tracks this week, some from the usual suspects, others less expected. We’ve even got a whopping nine honorable mentions, but still managed to reign it in to just a main Top 10. More

May 03, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Vampire Weekend have released a new album, Father of the Bride, today via Columbia/Spring Snow. Now that the album is out, you can stream the whole thing here. More

Apr 05, 2019 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. There were a slew of notable new tracks to choose from this week, but our #1 is a song we’ve been planning to add to the Songs of the Week list for a while now and finally could now that the album has been released today. More

Apr 04, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Vampire Weekend are releasing a new album, Father of the Bride, on May 3 via Columbia/Spring Snow. Now they have shared two more songs from it: “This Life” and “Unbearably White.” More

Mar 13, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Vampire Weekend are releasing a new album, Father of the Bride, on May 3 via Columbia/Spring Snow. Now they have shared a video for recent single “Sunflower” (which features Steve Lacy of The Internet). Actor Jonah Hill directed the video, which features Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig and Lacy, as well as cameos from comedy legend Jerry Seinfeld and rapper/visual artist Fab 5 Freddy. More

Mar 08, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

We’ve got another supersized Songs of the Week this week, with a Top 12 instead of the regular Top 10. Like last week we could’ve gotten it down to 10, but it felt wrong to leave out the bottom two. It was a near tie for the top two songs this week. More

Mar 06, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Vampire Weekend are releasing a new album, Father of the Bride. Previously it was said to be an April release, but now its release date has been confirmed as May 3 via Columbia/Spring Snow. Now the band has shared two more songs from the album: “Sunflower” (which features Steve Lacy of The Internet) and “Big Blue.” They have also shared the album’s final cover art. More

Feb 20, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Vampire Weekend are releasing a new album, Father of the Bride, this April via Columbia (exact release date TBA). They have already shared two songs from it: “Harmony Hall” (which was #2 on our Songs of the Week list) and “2021.” Now they have shared a video for “Harmony Hall.” Emmett Malloy directed the quirky clip, which features frontman Ezra Koenig making fancy pancakes in a robe, as well as lots of shots of a snake and more. As well as Koenig and his bandmates, the video features producer Ariel Rechtshaid, actor Jonah Hill, Dev Hynes (aka Blood Orange), and perhaps HAIM’s Danielle Haim More

Jan 30, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Vampire Weekend are releasing a new album, Father of the Bride, this April via Columbia (exact release date TBA). They have already shared two songs from it: “Harmony Hall” (which was #2 on our Songs of the Week list) and “2021.” More

Jan 25, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

This was a helluva week for new music. Monday was fairly quiet due to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, but Foals officially announced two albums and shared a cinematic video for a new song. More

Jan 24, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Vampire Weekend previously announced that they would be releasing two new songs this morning and here they are: “Harmony Hall” and “2021.” More

Aug 29, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Ezra Furman released a new album, Transangelic Exodus, back in February via Bella Union. Now Furman has shared a cover of Vampire Weekend’s “Unbelievers” (a song from their last album, 2013’s Modern Vampires of the City). He has also added a few more tour dates to his schedule. More

Mar 21, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

This year’s Lollapalooza is going down August 2-5 at Grant Park in Chicago and now the lineup has been revealed. The headliners are The Weeknd, Bruno Mars, Jack White, Arctic Monkeys, Travis Scott, The National, Vampire Weekend, and Odesza. More

Feb 16, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig wrote a song for the new Peter Rabbit movie, which is a modern live action/computer animated take on Beatrix Potter’s classic children’s characters. More

Jan 30, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Rostam Batmanglij (formerly of Vampire Weekend and who just goes by his first name these days) released his debut solo album, Half-Light, last year via Nonesuch. Now he has shared a video for “Bike Dream.” More

Aug 07, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Vampire Weekend’s Chris Baio released his debut solo album, The Names, in 2015 under his last name via Glassnote, and released his sophomore album, Man of the World, back in June, also via Glassnote. Now he has shared a video for the album’s title track, “Man of the World.” More

Jul 26, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Charli XCX has shared a brand new song, “Boys,” via a video she self-directed (with Sarah McColgan). In keeping with the song’s title, the video features a bunch of well-known “boys.” More

Jul 10, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The Shins released a new album, Heartworms, in March via Aural Apothecary/Columbia. Now the band have announced a handful more tour dates for this fall, including new shows in Los Angeles, Reno, and Washington DC. They have also announced that Baio (Vampire Weekend’s Chris Baio) will be supporting them for most of their November dates. More

Jun 19, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Vampire Weekend’s Chris Baio released his debut solo album, The Names, in 2015 under his last name via Glassnote, and is releasing his sophomore album, Man of the World, on June 30, also via Glassnote. More

Jun 16, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Vampire Weekend’s Chris Baio released his debut solo album, The Names, in 2015 under his last name via Glassnote, and is releasing his sophomore album, Man of the World, on June 30, also via Glassnote. More

Jun 14, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Rostam Batmanglij (formerly of Vampire Weekend and who just goes by his first name these days) has announced his debut solo album, Half-Light, and shared a lyric video for its new single, “Bike Dream.” More

May 12, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Vampire Weekend’s Chris Baio released his debut solo album, The Names, in 2015 under his last name via Glassnote. Now he has announced his sophomore album, Man of the World, and shared its first single, “PHILOSOPHY!” More

Dec 02, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Vampire Weekend drummer Chris Tomson is releasing a solo album under the name Dams of the West. His debut album under that moniker is entitled Youngish American and is due out February 24, 2017 via 30th Century Records/Columbia. More

Sep 16, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Hamilton Leithauser of The Walkmen and Rostam Batmanglij (formerly of Vampire Weekend) have teamed up and are releasing a collaborative album, I Had a Dream That You Were Mine, next Friday (September 23) via Glassnote (it’s out today on vinyl). More

Sep 13, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Hamilton Leithauser of The Walkmen and Rostam Batmanglij (formerly of Vampire Weekend) have teamed up and are releasing a collaborative album, I Had a Dream That You Were Mine, on September 23 via Glassnote (it’s out September 16 on vinyl). More

Sep 08, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Recently departed Vampire Weekend member Rostam Batmanglij is releasing a collaborative album with Hamilton Leithauser of The Walkmen (I Had a Dream That You Were Mine) on September 23 via Glassnote. More

Aug 26, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Hamilton Leithauser of The Walkmen and Rostam Batmanglij (formerly of Vampire Weekend) have teamed up and are releasing a collaborative album, I Had a Dream That You Were Mine, on September 23 via Glassnote. More

Aug 05, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Hamilton Leithauser of The Walkmen and Rostam Batmanglij (formerly of Vampire Weekend) recently teamed up for the collaborative song “A 1000 Times.” Now the duo has announced a whole album together and shared another new song, “In a Black Out,” which is below. More

Jul 22, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Rostam Batmanglij recently announced that he had left Vampire Weekend and would be releasing music under his first name and shared a couple of solo songs. Now Rostam has teamed up with Hamilton Leithauser of The Walkmen (who have been on hiatus for awhile now) for a new collaborative song, “A 1000 Times.” More

May 04, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Vampire Weekend’s Chris Baio released his debut solo album last September via Glassnote. He’s going simply under his last name and the album is titled The Names after a Don DeLillo novel from 1982 of the same name. Now Amazon has shared a brand new song from him, “Don’t Fight Fate.” More

Mar 11, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Rostam Batmanglij recently announced that he had left Vampire Weekend and would be releasing music under his first name. At the time he also shared a new solo song, “EOS.” Now Batmanglij has shared another new song, “Gravity Don’t Pull Me,” and a video for it. The single is out now via XL and you watch the video below. More

Jan 27, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

A rally in Iowa City this Saturday in support of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is set to feature members of Vampire Weekend (also featuring Dirty Projectors’ Dave Longstreth), rapper and Run the Jewels member Killer Mike, and Foster the People. The Iowa Caucuses are next Monday, February 1, the first chance the people get to vote on who the Presidential candidates will be, hence the timing and location of the rally. More

Jan 26, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Rostam Batmanglij has announced today via Twitter that he has left Vampire Weekend. The multi-instrumentalist was a founding member of the band but has also been actively involved in other projects, such as producing Ra Ra Riot’s latest album and Discovery, his side-project with Ra Ra Riot vocalist Wes Miles. More

Nov 16, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Brooklyn’s Ra Ra Riot have announced their new album and shared its first single, “Water,” which features Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij. Need Your Light is the band’s fourth album, the follow-up to 2013’s Beta Love, and is due out February 19, 2016 via Barsuk. Below is the tracklist, album art, and “Water” (via its lyric video).

Sep 18, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Vampire Weekend’s Chris Baio is releasing his debut solo album today (September 18) via Glassnote. He’s going simply under his last name and the album is titled The Names after a Don DeLillo novel from 1982 of the same name. Last night he performed his single, and definite album highlight (and perhaps one of our favorite songs of the year thus far), “Sister of Pearl,” on Late Night with Seth Meyers. More

Sep 15, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Vampire Weekend’s Chris Baio is set to release his debut solo album this Friday (September 18) via Glassnote. He’s going simply under his last name and the album is titled The Names after a Don DeLillo novel from 1982 of the same name. Now you can stream the whole thing below via Noisey, who premiered it and also interviewed Baio about the record. More

Jul 31, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Vampire Weekend’s Chris Baio is set to release his debut solo album on September 18 via Glassnote. He’ll be going simply under his last name and the album will be titled The Names after a Don DeLillo novel from 1982 of the same name. We’ve already heard “Brainwash yyrr Face” and seen the fun video for “Sister of Pearl” featuring Baio dancing around London, where he’s based these days. Now he has shared another song, “Endless Rhythm,” via its video. More

Jul 27, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

As we previously reported, Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig has his very own show on Apple Music’s Beats 1 radio station, the intriguingly titled Time Crisis with Ezra Koenig. More

Jul 17, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Vampire Weekend’s Chris Baio is set to release his debut solo album on September 18 via Glassnote. He’ll be going simply under his last name and album will be titled The Names after a Don DeLillo novel from 1982 of the same name. More

Jul 13, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

As we reported on last week, Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig has his very own show on Apple Music’s Beats 1 radio station, the intriguingly titled Time Crisis with Ezra Koenig. More

Jul 06, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Apple Music’s Beats 1 radio station already has shows hosted by St. Vincent, Run the Jewels, Drake, Pharrell, Disclosure, Dr. Dre, Josh Homme, and others. Now Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig is joining the party and getting his very own show, the intriguingly titled Time Crisis with Ezra Koenig. More

May 26, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Vampire Weekend’s Chris Baio is set to release his debut solo album on September 18 via Glassnote (home to CHVRCHES and Phoenix, among others). He’ll be going simply under his last name and album will be titled The Names after a Don DeLillo novel from 1982 of the same name. More

Dec 12, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Grizzly Bear‘s Ed Droste, Vampire Weekend‘s Rostam Batmanglij and Diplo have collaborated on a newly released track titled “Long Way Home.” More

Aug 21, 2014 By Laura Studarus

SBTRKT recently stopped by Zane Lowe’s show on BBC 1. More

Jun 10, 2014 By Austin Trunick

The Big Apple’s annual outdoor music festival took place June 6th through 9th, 2014, on Randall’s Island. Jack White, Vampire Weekend, Grimes, Phoenix, Interpol, Spoon, Janelle Monae, Jenny Lewis, and many others played to large, sweaty NYC crowds, and photographer Robert Kidd was there to cover the action.

Check out his photos of day one here, and days two and three here. More

Apr 18, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Next month dance duo Chromeo will release their newest LP White Women. More

Apr 09, 2014 By Laura Studarus

There’s so many amazing angles to this story that we’re not exactly sure how to unpack it. More

Apr 03, 2014 By Laura Studarus

You might not have been at Lollapalooza Argentina last weekend, but thanks to the power of the internet you can watch Vampire Weekend’s full set at the festival. More

Mar 25, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Vampire Weekend stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night in service of their 2013 album, Modern Vampires of the City. More

Mar 11, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Already scheduled to make appearances at a number of high-profile festivals this year including The Governors Ball, Bonnaroo, and New Orleans Jazz & Heritage, Vampire Weekend have announced plans to play their own headlining gigs around these events. More

Mar 03, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Bringing a little indie-cred to the proceedings of last night’s 86th Academy Awards, Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O performed her Oscar-nominated track “The Moon Song” from Spike Jonze’s film Her. More

Feb 11, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

For Spike Jonze’s latest directorial effort Her, Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ frontwoman Karen O co-wrote with Jonze a quietly beautiful ballad titled “The Moon Song” to best express the love between a man and an operating system. More

Feb 03, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Announcing a brief leg of DJ shows just last week, Vampire Weekend‘s Chris Baio has shared a special remix of Broken Bells’ After the Disco single “Holding On For Life.” More

Jan 31, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

When he’s not acting as the bassist for Vampire Weekend, Chris Baio has been moonlighting with his own DJ side-project, serving up two EPs since 2012. More

Jan 21, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Successfully delivering Under the Radar‘s best album of 2013, Vampire Weekend continued to spread the word of Modern Vampires of the City with a performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night. More

Jan 13, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Last night saw the season three premiere of HBO’s Girls. More

Jan 07, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Next month on Feb. 4 Hear Music/Concord Music and Starbucks will release Sweetheart 2014, the latest installment of their love covers compilation featuring artists like Fiona Apple, Phosphorescent, and Sharon Jones. More

Jan 03, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

While the days of watching music videos on television are long gone, over the past several years the visual art form has certainly found second life (like so many other things) as an excellent online commodity. More

Dec 11, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

For those who like to plan way in advance when it comes to getting something special for your significant other on Valentine’s Day, Hear Music/Concord Music and Starbucks have announced the fifth installment of their love song covers compilation Sweeheart 2014. More

Dec 02, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Taking an approach to fundraising that other radio outlets could certainly learn from, Australian station FBi Radio has launched an unique call for monetary support by launching “Brush With Fame,” a special auction of drawings, sketches, and doodles by some of the industry’s leading musical talent. More

Oct 30, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

This week Vampire Weekend bassist Chris Baio released a brand new EP of solo electronic music under his surrname pseudonym Baio. More

Oct 28, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Over the weekend Austin City Limits aired a split episode featuring performances by Vampire Weekend and Grizzly Bear. More

Oct 25, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Tomorrow night Austin City Limits will air its latest episode featuring performances by two of NYC’s best musical acts: Vampire Weekend and Grizzly Bear. More

Oct 07, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Last year Vampire Weekend bassist Chris Baio released a solo EP titled Sunburn under his DJ alias Baio. More

Jul 19, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

While nobody will be able to confirm whether they had a gaggle of topless super models around them at the time of its performance, Vampire Weekend recently sat down in the studio at BBC Radio 1 and recorded a completely faithful rendition of Robin Thicke’s sexualized summer hit “Blurred Lines.” More

Jul 11, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Recently spending some time in the UK supporting their new album Modern Vampires of the City Vampire Weekend stopped by BBC Radio 1 to host an hour-long set of music. More

Dec 29, 2015 By Kyle Mullin

Chris Baio‘s smoothly grooving rhythms, seductively soothing vocals, and effortlessly catchy hooks make the synth-inclined indie rocker—and Vampire Weekend bassist—seem like he was born to be onstage. But, in fact, he was born in a marathon. More

Jun 05, 2014 By Frank Valish

For Throwback Thursdays we will be posting classic interviews from the Under the Radar print archives to our website. For this Throwback Thursday we revisit our 2007 article on Vampire Weekend, the band’s first interview for a nationally distributed print magazine. 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. Under the Radar joined drummer Chris Tomson and lead man Ezra Koenig in a rare patch of shade at Coachella to discuss life on the road, the sanity-maintaining properties of funny movies, and how to best operate Google.

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May 14, 2019 By Conrad Duncan

Just over 10 years on from their debut, Vampire Weekend already feel like a relic from the Obama era. More

Aug 04, 2013 By Laura Ferreiro

Montreal’s Parc Jean-Drapeau provided a gorgeous backdrop for the first day of the annual Osheaga Festival. The sold-out event, which is now in its eighth year, boasts a lineup that features some incredible indie-rock upstarts such as Alt-J and Palma Violets alongside renowned veterans including The Cure, Beck and New Order.

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May 14, 2013 By Ryan E.C. Hamm

Vampire Weekend is touting their third album, Modern Vampires of the City, as the conclusion of a trilogy. More

Mar 25, 2013 By Laura Studarus

Although the last day of SXSW usually has a sparse schedule, I managed to catch some heavy hitters, including Heyerdahl, Autre Ne Veut, Willy Moon, Majical Cloudz, HAIM, Vampire Weekend, and Austra. More

Oct 01, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Although autumn had officially hit several days earlier, one would have been hard pressed to find any signs of the new season at Vampire Weekend’s unseasonably hot Hollywood Bowl debut Sunday night. Also making their sweat-drenched bowl debuts were African/Swedish band The Very Best, and Baltimore, Maryland’s Beach House. More

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