And What Better Way To Spend Your Weekend?

There are many trademarks that make a traditional college band a college band.  The wardrobe: American Apparel matching sweater-vests, coupled with Oxford-esque white button-downs.  The sound: innocent, preppy, and bouncy.  The hype: many, from the "blog push" to the Columbia smarts to the ubiquitous presence of their video for "A-Punk" on MTV-U.  

But Vampire Weekend, the latest indie-rock band spawned from New York City, is more than your average college band.  They fuze exciting drum beats straight out of Africa and poppy guitar chords straight out of "The Unicorns" to create one hell of a sound.  Randall Poster elaborated on their unique sound, when he says, "imagine New Order sitting down with Paul Simon and talking about the first Talking Heads record, while Pavement plays over the cafeteria loudspeakers."  Talk about hype.  Maybe the hype will wear off in the coming weeks - although the release of their self-titled freshman LP has racked up great reviews - and maybe we will forget about them.  But hey:  this is a blog, and as far as I'm concerned, let's hype away while we still can.

Download:
Oxford Comma - Vampire Weekend

Mansard Roof - Vampire Weekend

A-Punk - Vampire Weekend

- Geoff