Today millions of people across America and beyond are making their way to the path of totality, a strip of land across the United States where a full solar eclipse will be viewable this afternoon. Texas is an especially good viewing spot, which has occasioned some special events like Vampire Weekend’s album release show that doubles a...

Fans will be able to tune into the historical gig for free The post How to watch Vampire Weekend’s show to mark US solar eclipse today appeared first on NME.

Vampire Weekend released their new album Only God Was Above Us on Friday. This weekend, they took over the SiriusXMU channel and did a stripped-back live session where they covered Grateful Dead’s “Peggy-O” and did a few OGWAU songs live for the first time. They were joined by Amber Coffman on backing vocals and Ray...

There were rules. Was there ever a manifesto? Not exactly, but Ezra Koenig at least gestured toward one. The idea was to establish some stylistic guardrails, to prevent Vampire Weekend from defaulting to easy rock-band tropes and to set them apart from their peers. As Koenig explained to the Denver alt-weekly Westword in 2008, the notion that ba...

Their fifth studio album is a technicolour, sprawling ode a long-gone, old New York CityThe post Vampire Weekend – ‘Only God Was Above Us’ review: back to the Big Apple appeared first on NME.