Artist.......: Vampire Weekend
Album........: Live de la Semaine
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Rock
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2010-02-01
Str.date.....: 2010-01-00
Quality......: 165kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.myspace.com/vampireweekend
track title time
1. Live de la Semaine 29:36
Runtime 29:36
Size 35.08
Release Notes:
Describing their sound as "Upper West Side Soweto," New
York City's Vampire Weekend mix preppy, well-read indie
rock with joyful, Afro-pop-inspired melodies and rhythms.
Ezra Koenig, Chris Baio, Rostam Batmanglij, and Chris
Tomson formed the band early in 2006, when they were
finishing up their studies at Columbia University. Taking
their name from a movie Koenig made during his freshman
year, the band started out by playing gigs at the
university's literary societies and at parties. Word
spread about Vampire Weekend's unique sound and lyrics
("Oxford Comma," one of the band's earliest songs,
referred to comma use in a list of three items), buoyed by
the band's self-released EPs, which they recorded in
locations spanning their Columbia dorm rooms to a family
barn. The buzz around Vampire Weekend reached a peak in
2007: that summer, the band embarked on its biggest tour
yet, made several appearances at that year's CMJ Music
Marathon, and signed with XL Records that fall. The
Mansard Roof EP was Vampire Weekend's debut release for
the label, followed by their self-titled first album early
in 2008. Debuting within the Top 20 of both the American
and U.K. album charts, the eponymous record proved to be
one of the year's most popular indie releases. Vampire
Weekend celebrated its success by hitting the road for the
better part of two years, and keyboardist Rostam
Batmanglij gathered additional accolades by releasing an
album with Discovery, his electro side project with Ra Ra
Riot's Wes Miles. Amidst this flurry of activity, Vampire
Weekend found time to return to the studio for the
creation of Contra, which was readied for release in early
2010.