"Big Blue" has not gotten a ton of attention during Vampire Weekend's Father Of The Bride rollout -- no music video, no live radio performance, no digitally altered Jenny Lewis sample -- but man, what a gorgeous song. It's a gentle ballad that seems to float just above the surface of the Earth, eventually blooming…

The band released their own song of the same name earlier this monthVampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig and Post MaloneVampire Weekend have covered Post Malone’s ‘Sunflower’ in a new live session. The original version of the track appeared on the soundtrack for Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse and featured Rae Sremmurd member Swae Lee. The New ...

In one of the first interviews promoting Vampire Weekend's new album Father Of The Bride, Ezra Koenig mentioned experiencing a brief moment of panic upon realizing that Post Malone and Swae Lee had released a hit song called "Sunflower." Koenig remembers thinking, "We have a song on this record called ‘Sunflower.' God, we have to…

Father Of The Bride, Vampire Weekend's long-awaited LP4, is fast approaching. We've gotten two pairs of songs so far -- "Harmony Hall" and "2021," "Sunflower" and the Steve Lacy-featuring "Big Blue." We've also gotten two accompanying music videos -- a snake-filled, extremely '90s "Harmony Hall" video and a Jonah Hill-directed, Zabar's-set, Jerr...

Includes records by The Fall, Stephen Malkmus and moreIn this fast-paced musical landscape, where it’s so easy to simply put a playlist on shuffle, nothing compares to putting a record on, sitting back and enjoying all it has to offer in full (or at least until you have get up again to flip it over). Every week, NME will round up the b...