Welcome to our weeklyrundownof the best new music — featuring big new singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week, Doja Cat shares a Teezo Touchdown-assisted B-side, and Vampire Weekend delivers some gangster guitar magic. Plus, a sweet highlight from Young Miko‘s debut album, new music from Charli …
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Vampire Weekend’s recordings have frequently been characterized by a kind of tidiness, a clean fusion of Ezra Koenig’s pop songwriting smarts and the group’s instrumental economy. The band’s new album Only God Was Above Us offers something different, pivoting away from the brighter, jammier aspects of 2019’s Father of the …
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To celebrate the 2024 total eclipse — and the release of their new album, Only God Was Above Us — Vampire Weekend will play a special midday show in Austin, Texas, which will also be available to livestream. The gig will take place April 8 (three days after the album’s …
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Vampire Weekend make sense of how historical examples of cruelty have become “classical” with time on an upbeat new song, “Classical.” The song comes off their upcoming album Only God Was Above Us, due out April 5. Between frontman Ezra Koenig’s catchy, squeaky guitar melody and Henry Solomon’s wild saxophone …
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Vampire Weekend will hit the road this summer for a lengthy tour in support of their upcoming album Only God Was Above Us. Following the band’s sold-out, album-introducing, solar eclipse show in Austin, the 45-show trek kicks off in earnest April 27 at New Orleans’ Jazz Fest, and loops around …
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Vampire Weekend are teasing their new album, Only God Was Above Us, with a 30-second clip of a noisy yet upbeat guitar cacophony skating over some funky bass and drums. The clip for the album, due out April 5, shows a man jumping through an old New York City subway …
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Phoenix appeared on The Late Show to perform their latest single “Tonight,” which features Vampire Weekend singer Ezra Koenig on vocals. The French rock group showcased the song on the late-night show stage using the same split screen vibe as the track’s official music video, with segments of Koenig from …
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