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Vampire Weekend Make History With #1 Billboard Debut

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Contra marks highest indie-rock debut since 2007, and first #1 for label XL. By James Montgomery Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig Photo: Jeff Gentner/Getty Images Score one for the indie kids. In a rather amazing turn of events, Vampire Weekend — they of the piqued Polos, pan-ethnic pop stylings and proudly independent label — will snag the top spot on next week’s Billboard albums chart.

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Vampire Weekend’s Contra Takes Aim At Teenage Bloggers

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

‘You let your emotions get too tied into 15-year-old people’s LiveJournals, and clearly that’s not a good thing,’ Ezra Koenig says.

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Ke$ha Ends Susan Boyle’s Billboard Chart Reign

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Pop rapper’s debut, Animal, knocks British songstress to #2. By Gil Kaufman Ke$ha’s Animal Photo: RCA Records It took a party-animal newcomer like Ke$ha to end chart champ Susan Boyle ‘s Billboard reign.

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Rockonomics: The California-Prep Style Rebranding of Vampire Weekend

Posted on January 9, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

A found-everywhere band of the last two years, Brooklyn-bred Vampire Weekend ‘s back with a new album, and new press lines to go with it: they’ve transitioned from their “prep-chic” Ivy League linage image into ostensibly different “California”-style brand identification. This all naturally culminates in the following Wall Street Journal headline: Vampire Weekend Goes from Columbia to California on Its New Album, “Contra” The nice thing about a band like Vampire Weekend is that they make the duties of a mostly-stupid music press’ job really, really easy, by giving them easy narratives to fill in

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Vampire Weekend’s ‘MTV Unplugged’: Watch It Here!

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Performance features songs from their debut and from Contra, due Tuesday. By James Montgomery Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig performs for “MTV Unplugged” Photo: MTV Vampire Weekend’s Contra doesn’t hit stores until Tuesday, but it’s already streaming on the band’s Web site .

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Vampire Weekend Take You Through Contra Track By Track

Posted on January 5, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Ezra Koenig and company give you their view of their new album. By James Montgomery Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig Photo: MTV News Last summer, when MTV News first visited Vampire Weekend in the studio where they were toiling away on their new album, they kept using one phrase to describe the songs they had written: “extremes of vibe.” At the time, we sort of chalked it up to too much time spent in a dark space — the studio, dubbed “Tree Fort,” is located in a cramped storage facility near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway — but with each passing month, and with each new song they revealed (the plinky “Horchata,” the placid “White Sky,” the punky “Cousins”) we slowly began to understand what they meant. Their album (which they eventually dubbed Contra ), packed an awful lot into just 30-odd minutes: careening guitars, chipper keys, downright dubby low-end, plus handclaps, bells, whistles and even an Auto-Tuned vocal or two

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Susan Sarandon’s New Boy Toy

Posted on December 24, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Link: http://newsbizarre.com/2009/12/susan-… Susan Sarandon may have left husband Tim Robbins for 31-year-old “ping pong entrepreneur” Jonathan Bricklin. A Gawker commenter said: “I heard Susan Sarandon do an interview about ping-pong on Air America a few weeks ago and she spent a whole hour praising Jonathan Bricklin! She seemed enamoured of him.” Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment

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Mom Brought To Tears By Thing Picked Up At Airport

Posted on December 24, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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Christmas Laser Beam Cats

Posted on December 24, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

If cats could shoot laser beams, they'd totally do it in a deadpan, droll sort of manner. This is basically how the world is going to end. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment

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"With Nine Inch Nails, I Thee Wed"

Posted on December 24, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Someone in Germany was so bored he/she turned a bunch of bands such as Nine Inch Nails, Vampire Weekend and Bat for Lashes into costume jewellery. [via One Hand Band ] Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment

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