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Vampire Weekend

April 2024

  • Vampire Weekend

    Vampire Weekend: Only God Was Above Us review – their most adventurous set yet

    Indian raga, hip-hop and scuzzy, Strokes-like rock replace the west African guitar sounds of old on Ezra Koenig and co’s dazzling fifth album

March 2024

  • Ezra Koenig from Vampire Weekend photographed in London in February 2024. Stylist: Helen Seamons; Stylist assistant: Sam Deaman; Grooming: Neusa Neves using Obayaty by Mario and colour wow hair; Vintage music note knit jumper (contemporarywardrobe.com) and cream cargo trousers (carhartt-wip.com). this page:

    ‘When I was younger I was arrogant’: Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig on fatherhood and growing up

    They were initially dismissed as the acme of upper-class preppiness, but the band’s new album Only God Was Above Us is its grittiest yet. Has their frontman finally exorcised past demons?

November 2023

  • Part of the cover of Led Zeppelin IV, showing the man whom a historian has identified as Lot Long, a Victorian thatcher from Wiltshire.

    Musical mysteries: the unlikely album cover stars who became modern pop enigmas

    As the old man on Led Zeppelin’s fourth album artwork is identified, we take a look at albums that are as famous for the faces on their sleeves as their music

November 2022

  • Phoenix

    Phoenix: ‘Every political cycle France has an existential crisis’

    The Parisian pop maestros discuss getting their groove back, recording in the Louvre and the debate raging over their homeland’s cultural identity

April 2021

  • Damon Locks, Esperanza Spalding, Jungle, Ripley Johnson and Ashley Monroe.

    Club culture
    ‘My energy comes from optimism’: the hopeful music of spring 2021

  • Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend performing in London in 2019.

    The fandom that made me
    How Vampire Weekend guided me into fatherhood

January 2020

  • Billie Eilish accepts the 2020 Grammy award for best new artist.

    Grammy awards 2020: full list of winners

  • Contenders … Lizzo, J Cole and Billie Eilish.

    Grammys 2020: who will win the big categories – and who should

December 2019

  • Albums of 2019. No 1 - Lana Del Rey

    Best music of 2019
    The 50 best albums of 2019: the full list

  • Yeehaw! Lil Nas X.

    Best music of 2019
    The 20 best songs of 2019

November 2019

  • Vampire Weekend at Alexandra Palace.

    Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    Vampire Weekend review – plenty of bite plus a sunny disposition

  • Ezra Koenig.

    On my radar
    On my radar: Ezra Koenig’s cultural highlights

September 2019

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    Best culture of the 21st century
    The 100 best albums of the 21st century

    We polled 45 music writers to rank the definitive LPs of the 21st century so far. Read our countdown of passionate pop, electrifying rock and anthemic rap – and see if you agree

July 2019

  • Robert Smith of the Cure at Glastonbury festival.

    Glastonbury 2019: Sunday with the Cure, Kylie and Miley Cyrus – as it happened

    The festival’s closing day brought Kylie gold, while Cyrus rocked out and David Attenborough made a surprise appearance. Plus, Christine and the Queens, the Streets and Vampire Weekend

June 2019

  • Ezra Koenig: ‘After three albums, things were threatening to get a little professional.’

    Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig: ‘Rock music is dead, so it's more joyful to me'

  • Best albums of 2019 so far

    Best albums of 2019 so far

May 2019

  • Barrelling through his hits ... Stormzy performing at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Middlesbrough.

    BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend review – electric Stormzy opens two days of non-stop pop

    Billie Eilish draws the crowds, Miley Cyrus rejects her previous personas and Slowthai steals the day
  • Vampire Weekend’s frontman Ezra Koenig.

    Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    Vampire Weekend: Father of the Bride review – a marriage of angst and optimism

    The band’s first album in six years is both a callback to their preppy roots and a mature evolution of melting pot pop
  • ‘A band pushing past their boundaries with striking results’ ... Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Vampire Weekend: Father of the Bride review – a scrapbook of brilliant ideas

    Their first album in six years sees VW integrating styles from country to flamenco into their preppy pop, often brilliantly

March 2019

  • Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend on stage at EartH.

    Vampire Weekend review – smart, casual return for princes of prep-pop

    On a mini-tour ahead of their first album since 2013, the breezy charm of Ezra Koenig’s cosmopolitan band remains undimmed, despite wobbles
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