After announcing their first new album in five years last week, Vampire Weekend has now unveiled the first two songs from Only God Was Above Us and an extensive tour in support of it. “Gen-X Cops” is ...

“We got on the phone with them and they basically wanted not a bad pop song, but kind of a… They played me references and stuff for what they were looking for, and they already had some lyrics,” ...

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.

Before Vampire Weekend played their breakthrough single “A-Punk” at their second of two consecutive Madison Square Garden shows, they shouted out Pete’s Candy Store, the small Brooklyn bar where the ...

We’re a few weeks away from the release of Vampire Weekend‘s new album Only God Was Above Us, and today they’ve shared its third single, “Classical.” The song feels like classic Vampire Weekend, with ...

Vampire Weekend returned with a new song “Classical,” as the third preview from their upcoming album, Only God Was Above Us. Lead singer Ezra Koenig wrote the song and co-produced it alongside Ariel ...

After nearly two decades, Vampire Weekend is still performing with the same nerdy charm of a college band. The indie pop and rock group, which formed at Columbia University in 2006, delivered both ...

9:09 a.m. Oct. 9, 2024: An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to Chris Baio as Vampire Weekend’s drummer. The band’s drummer is Chris Tomson. The members of Vampire Weekend are very ...

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 ...

On its fifth album, suffused with thoughts of 20th-century New York City, indie-rock’s pop maximalists get noisier — but it’s a journey out of negativity into “something a little deeper.” From left: ...

Editor's note: This page has been updated to include more of the conversation between Bob Boilen and Ezra Koenig. Ezra Koenig spends a lot of his time thinking about, well, time. For the past 10 years ...