"Let's do the whale." It's impossible to step into the American Museum Of Natural History and not feel a sense of childhood wonder. For anyone who grew up in New York City or the surrounding area, it was the site of class field trips and sugar-rushed weekends where it seemed like the entire…

"Things have never been stranger," a chorus of voices calls out near the end of the new Vampire Weekend album. In cascading folk-rock harmonies, their message continues: "Things are gonna stay strange." Consider it a thesis statement for Father Of The Bride, the band's first album in six years and quite possibly their magnum opus.

Vampire Weekend have announced three new shows that'll take place around New York State during the week that their new album, Father Of The Bride, will be released. There's one in Buffalo, one in Kingston, and another in (of course) New York City.

Introducing 'This Life' and 'Unbearably White' Vampire Weekend's Ezra KoenigVampire Weekend have continued to preview ‘Father of The Bride’ by releasing two more tracks from their fourth record. After previously debuting the likes of ‘Harmony Hall‘, ‘2021‘, ‘Sunflower&#821...

About a month before the May 2013 release of Vampire Weekend's last album, Modern Vampires Of The City, the NBC sitcom Parks And Recreation aired the 17th episode of its fifth season, "Partridge." As noted by Michael Moats at Fiction Advocate, that title was a rather oblique nod to David Foster Wallace's magnum opus, Infinite…