Subject: Vampire Weekend

• Coachella lineup announced

  Via Coachella.com: FRIDAY, APRIL 25: Jack Johnson, The Verve, Raconteurs, The Breeders, Fatboy Slim, Tegan and Sara, Madness, The Swell Season, The National, Animal Collective, Slightly Stoopid, Mum, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Stars, Battles, Aesop Rock, Midnight Juggernauts, Does it Offend you, Yeah?, Minus the Bear, Spank Rock, dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip, Diplo, Adam Freeland, Santo Gold, Jens Lekman, John Butler Trio, Vampire Weekend, Dan Deacon, Architecture in Helsinki, Sandra Col

  January 22, 2008

• Coachella, Day 1

  April 26, 2008

• San Diego Street Scene lineup announced

  The two-day lineup for this year's San Diego Street Scene was just announced today, and it doesn't look half bad, in this humble ex-music editor's opinion. Headliners include Beck, the Black Crowes, X, Tegan and Sara, Justice, plus Spoon, TV on the Radio, STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9), Michael Franti & Spearhead, The National, Atmosphere, Cat Power, Hot Chip, The New Pornographers, Vampire Weekend, The Hives, Cold War Kids, Ghostland Observatory, Spiritualized, Antibalas, Man Man, The Mother Hips,

  June 16, 2008

• This Week in the OC Weekly

  September 12, 2008

• To Do Tonight 9/16

  Chris Williams Sextet, 7 p.m. Half off all food! Steamers Jazz Club 138 W. Commonwealth Ave. Fullerton, CA 714-871-8800 Kelly Boyz country dance lessons and Kelly Rae Live, 7:30 p.m. A shit kickin' good time. OC Tavern 2369 S. El Camino Real San Clemente, CA 949-542-8877 Vampire Weekend; White Williams; Abe Vigoda, 7 p.m. Can't make the show? Read a review and see photos of the concert tomorrow at OCWeekly.com The Glass House 200 W. Second St. Pomona, CA 909-629-0377 Deccatree, The Peace Bomb

  September 16, 2008

• Last Night: Vampire Weekend @ The Glasshouse

  Last Night: Vampire Weekend at the Glass House September 16, 2008 Better Than: taking your garlic pills. Download: "Oxford Comma" from the Vampire Weekend homepage. Buzz and critical acclaim can be a double-edged sword. Vampire Weekend wielded the sharper side last night by performing a biting set that silenced critics and delighted fans. The city of Chino was well represented in the form of Abe Vigoda. They mentioned they used to get dropped off to see shows at the Glass House and also inf

  September 17, 2008

• Tonight: Army Navy, The Shys at The Coach House

  Army Navy—an excellent power-pop band from LA, returns to Orange County tonight with a show at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano. It's a surprisingly hip show for that venue; not trying to talk out of class or anything, but their next two shows after this are the Bacon Brothers and Stephen Pearcy of Ratt. If you've heard the soundtrack to modest hit fall comedy Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, you've heard Army Navy; their tune "Silvery Sleds" shares space on that record with indie

  November 20, 2008

• The Cure, The Killers, Death Cab for Cutie Announced for KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas

  It's radio station concert day! Apparently! KROQ has announced their lineup for day two (Dec. 14) of Almost Acoustic Christmas at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, and it is predictably pretty great: The Cure, The Killers, Death Cab for Cutie, Paramore, Franz Ferdinand (!), Scott Weiland, Snow Patrol and Vampire Weekend. In the spirit of "one of these things is not like the other things," I choose you, Scott Weiland! Stone Temple Pilots are already playing day one; I guess if you mana

  November 20, 2008

• Musical Advent Calendar: Death Cab for Cutie, 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)'

  At this point, who hasn't covered the Phil Spector co-written classic "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)"? Mariah Carey sang it on her 1994 Merry Christmas album, U2 on the 1987 Christmas compilation A Very Special Christmas. Original singer Darlene Love performs the tune every year on "The Late Show with David Letterman;" even Smash Mouth has their own, no doubt terrible, version.But my favorite version is from 2004's Maybe This Christmas Tree--check out the awesome cover by Shag up in the corn

  December 12, 2008

• More Favorite Things!

  In this week's Weekly, I blab about some of my favorite things in music this year. Since my ego clearly cannot be contained to just a half page on a newspaper, I've got even more favorite things here (as referenced at the end of the article--that's what we call "convergence" in the biz).

  December 18, 2008

• Vampire Weekend's Afro-Pop Influences Rankle World-Music Purists

  September 11, 2008

• Album Review: Franz Ferdinand, 'Tonight: Franz Ferdinand'

  New Franz Ferdinand album out today! We've got a review this week in the Weekly, but here it is, a couple days early. It's like we traveled through time somehow!Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (Domino)Bowing in early 2004, Franz Ferdinand's superb self-titled debut album hit at the exact right time. Modern American-rock radio was finally beginning to unearth itself from years of turgid nu-metal and was ready to embrace, if half-heartedly, arty indie acts such as Interpol, the Yeah Yeah

  January 27, 2009

• [CD Review] Bishop Allen, 'Grrr . . .' (Dead Oceans)

  March 12, 2009

• TONIGHT: Ra Ra Riot, Cut Off Your Hands at Detroit Bar

  Are you sick of hearing about Ra Ra Riot yet? Y'know, the indie band from Syracuse that have been riding a crest of Vampire Weekend-esque buzz for the past few months. Well, you can stop hearing about them and actually hear them, tonight at Detroit Bar. Their record, The Rhumb Line, was Rolling Stone's 38th best album of last year, after all. Everyone knows 38th best is lucky! Opening up are New Zealand's Cut Off Your Hands, who Doug Wallen wrote about for us here, and Seattle's Telekinesis, a n

  March 2, 2009

• Last Night: Ra Ra Riot, Cut Off Your Hands at Detroit

  PR photoNick offers a hand to cut off.Last Night: Ra Ra Riot, Cut Off Your Hands at Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa. Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Check out pictures from Andrew Youssef here.Better Than: Listening to either of these bands' recorded output.Download: "It Doesn't Matter" by Cut Off Your Hands and "Can You Tell" by Ra Ra Riot.Props to Doug Wallen for unearthing two central truths about Cut Off Your Hands in the latest Weekly. Number one: There's a punk spirit to the New Zealand quartet's decide

  March 3, 2009

• Friendly Fires Spark a Disco Inferno

  April 9, 2009

• [CD Review] Franz Ferdinand, 'Tonight: Franz Ferdinand' (Domino)

  January 29, 2009

• [Aural Reports] KUCI DJ Ashley Eliot Keeps It In OC, No Matter What

  December 18, 2008

• Mediocre Madness: 'How to Lose Friends & Alienate People,' 'Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist'

  October 2, 2008

• A Fresh Wave of Globally Minded Music Websites Will Broaden Your Horizons

  September 4, 2008

• [CD Review] The Lines, 'Memory Span' (Acute)

  June 26, 2008

• [Sprawl of Sound] Highlights, Lowlights, A'ights and Blights From Coachella '08

  May 1, 2008

• Hotter Than the Temperature at Coachella? Black Lips, Animal Collective, Duffy and 43 More

  April 17, 2008

• [hits!] Top-Selling Records at Rhino Records

  April 3, 2008

• [Sprawl of Sound] Dave Does SXSW

  March 20, 2008

• [Hits!] Top sellers at SecondSpin in Costa Mesa

  February 21, 2008

• Boston's Passion Pit Make Dance-Floor Jams, But Take Musical Cues From Randy Newman

  May 28, 2009

• Friendly Fires

  August 20, 2009

• Vampire Weekend Release New Song, Head to Long Beach

  Esther White​Are you ready for the latest (er, first?) wave of early 2008 nostalgia? Vampire Weekend is back!

  October 5, 2009

• Last Night: Vampire Weekend at the Art Theatre in Long Beach

  Andrew Youssef​Last Night: Vampire Weekend at the Art Theatre in Long Beach (11/02/09)Better Than: the last time I saw them at the Glass House in September of 2008.After a secret show in Chinatown and a last minute show in Boyle Heights, Vampire Weekend "officially" kicked off their mini tour of California at the Art Theatre in Long Beach. Vampire Weekend is gearing up for the release of their new album Contra which is due on 1/12 on XL recordings.Selling out the roughly 400 capacity theater i

  November 3, 2009