The new Vampire Weekend album is both a comeback and a repudiation. The band’s first album in six years, Father of the Bride jumbles tropes and references with characteristic density. In today’s ...

One of Vampire Weekend’s biggest hits begins with the question “Who gives a f—k about an Oxford comma?” It’s a fair question, and the answer is simple: It me. I GAF about the Oxford comma, because ...

As chaotic and inventive as Vampire Weekend‘s arrangements get over five studio albums, things never feel out of control. The production and mixing are impressively ornate, a wedding cake that could ...

Vampire Weekend’s Chris Baio and electronic producer Michael Greene, better known as Fort Romeau, have revived their C.Y.M. moniker for a new pair of singles. “Justify” and “Catania”—the latter of ...

Last night, Sept. 16, Vampire Weekend took the stage at Montclair, N.J.’s Wellmont Theater to continue a historic trip to the Garden State. In the midst of an exhaustive world tour that’s kept them on ...

Inspired in part by Zohran Mamdani’s NY mayorship, Rostam Batmanglij’s gorgeous new album fuses Americana with sounds of the Middle East. So why isn’t his mum happy?

That the members of Vampire Weekend know the Arctic Monkeys’ “505” and the Cranberries’ “Dreams” — but not Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Freebird” — is completely on brand. During the audience request encore of ...

Vampire Weekend's emergence coincided with a bunch of trends: rock bands influenced by world music, rock bands that dress like preppies and pop-culture phenomena connected in some way to vampires. The ...