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 ...

Vampire Weekend have shared the first two singles from their anticipated new album Only God Was Above Us and announced a massive tour in support of it. Both new songs were made with longtime VW ...

Midway through Vampire Weekend‘s night at the Hollywood Bowl on Wednesday, singer-guitarist Ezra Koenig paused to remind, or perhaps inform, fans in the packed amphitheater of the night’s special ...

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 ...

“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 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 ...