The RX is Uproxx Music’s stamp of approval for the best albums, songs, and music stories throughout the year. Inclusion in this category is the highest distinction we can bestow, and signals the most ...
Vampire Weekend scores its third No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as the band’s 'Father of the Bride' bows atop the list. By Keith Caulfield, Billboard Vampire Weekend scores its third No. 1 ...
Not many would've guessed when Vampire Weekend emerged as a collegiate and critical favorite of the peak of the blog-rock era in the late-'00s, we'd still be talking about them making history on the… ...
The band's longest album to date is so polished you may not initially take in all the emotion roiling beneath its surface. Father of the Bride introduces new themes and a new ambition. This is FRESH ...
If, as Ezra Koenig once hypothesised, Lil Jon always tells the truth, what would he say about Father of the Bride? Maybe that, at 18 songs stretched over 58 minutes, Vampire Weekend’s fourth album is ...
This essay is running as part of the 2019 Uproxx Music Critics Poll. Explore the results here. Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig often seems like a man who’s never had an unreasonable thought or feeling ...
Last fall, Ezra Koenig experienced a brief moment of panic regarding Post Malone’s hit single “Sunflower.” “We have a song on this record called ‘Sunflower,'” the Vampire Weekend frontman, 34, recalls ...
What does a band like Vampire Weekend sound like after age 30? That's the question that frontman Ezra Koenig has struggled with over the past six years, as he slowly worked on the band's fourth album, ...
After winning their first Grammy for their last album, 2013’s “Modern Vampires of the City,” Vampire Weekend apparently decided that, as a reward for that achievement, a six-year break was in order.
First-round Grammy voting is currently underway, and running through October 10th. For our 2020 Grammy preview, we asked a series of likely contenders to reflect on their past experiences at the ...
These days, a six-year gap between albums practically qualifies as a hiatus. In the case of Vampire Weekend, it's been enough time to experience a 2014 Grammy win, a significant departure (Rostam ...
Vampire Weekend scores its third No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as the band's "Father of the Bride" bows atop the list. By Keith Caulfield Vampire Weekend scores its third No. 1 album on the ...