Artist
Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend is an indie pop artist from New York, USA formed in 2006. 26 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Indie Pop · New York, USA · Best indie pop albums
- 26
- Releases
- 2007–2024
- Active years
- 2006
- Formed
Artist
Vampire Weekend is an indie pop artist from New York, USA formed in 2006. 26 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Indie Pop · New York, USA · Best indie pop albums
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Vampire Weekend
2007
Capricorn / Gen-X Cops
Single · 2024
Prep-School Gangsters (Live Acoustic from Queens, NY)
Single · 2024
My Mistake
Single · 2024
Classical
Single · 2024
Mary Boone
Single · 2024
40:42
Single · 2021
Harmony Hall / 2021
Single · 2019
Sunflower / Big Blue
Single · 2019
This Life / Unbearably White
Single · 2019
Unbelievers
Single · 2014
Diane Young
Single · 2013
Giant
Single · 2010
Jonathan Low
Single · 2010
White Sky
EP · 2010
Ottoman
Single · 2010
California English Pt. 2
Single · 2009
Arrows
Single · 2008
Mansard Roof
Single · 2007
Ladies of Cambridge
Single · 2007
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Grammy Awards
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Vampire Weekend are an American indie rock band from New York City, that formed in 2006 and signed to XL Recordings. The band has four members: Ezra Koenig, Rostam Batmanglij, Chris Tomson, and Chris Baio. The band released its first album Vampire Weekend in 2008, which produced the singles "Mansard Roof", "A-Punk", "Oxford Comma" and "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa". The band's most recent album, Contra, was released in 2010. Members of the band met while in Columbia University, beginning with a "serious" rap collaboration between Koenig and Tomson. They bonded over a shared love of punk and African music, and in fact Koenig had gone on tour with The Dirty Projectors during a period of experimentation with African music, inspiring the band to incorporate world sounds into their earliest work. They chose the name Vampire Weekend from the title of a short film project by Koenig. Koenig believes that the vampire imagery of their band name helped spread their work across the internet, attracting people who might otherwise never have listened to their music. The band began playing shows around Columbia, starting with a battle of the bands at Lerner Hall. After graduating from college, the band…
