Vampire Weekend

Miami's Major Lazer at Ultra Music Festival 2013

Major Lazer's Walshy Fire on Boring EDM Shows: "People Really Appreciate 'Different'"

Ultra Music Festival has never offered much homegrown local flavor. Even as the globally minded EDM fest has broadened its musical scope to include rappers, R&B stars, and indie bands, the other sounds -- reggae, salsa, merengue, authentic Miami Bass -- that keep much of the 305 dancing the rest ... More >>

Com Truise, Poolside, Bonde do Role, and Halloween at EVE Miami, October 27

Com Truise, Poolside, and Bonde do Rolê EVE, Miami Saturday, October 27, 2012 The decentralization of Halloween (that is, when the All Hallow's Eve actually falls on a weeknight and nobody knows when to party) makes an already surreal holiday that much weirder. Instead of one night of spooky shit ... More >>

Andrew Bird, Hardest Whistling Man in Show Biz, at the Fillmore Miami Beach, October 8

Andrew BirdWith Here We Go MagicFillmore Miami BeachMonday, October 8, 2012Better Than: Combing NPR's All Songs Considered archives. Last night, the Fillmore Miami Beach was temporarily transformed back into the old Jackie Gleason Theater as incredibly skilled multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird brou ... More >>

Andrew Bird, Chris Issak Added to Fillmore Miami Beach 2012 Concert Schedule

The geographical disadvantage that has historically plagued Miami's live music scene is seemingly dissipating. Touring indie acts are traveling further south than ever before, logging the extra 250 miles from Orlando or Tampa to play shows in Miami-Dade. While venues like Bardot and Grand Central ... More >>

Beach House at Fillmore Miami Beach May 8

Beach House's Victoria Legrand on Bloom, New Songs, and Practicing Musical Magic

In its recent music issue, Entertainment Weekly declared Baltimore-based dream pop duo Beach House to be one of the 30 greatest bands working today. Though the duo was number 30, the list also included the legendary Bruce Springsteen and pop sensation Adele. "I saw that thing, and it kinda freaked ... More >>

Diplo Takes on Reggae, Chris Brown, KPop and Hard Miami at Grand Central Tonight

Diplo's about to set it on fire!​Ahhhhhh, Diplo. Miami loves nothing more than a good ol' Florida boy who can DJ big bass and has a tattoo of a manatee holding a machine gun on his chest. Mr. Wes Pentz was here only a couple of weeks ago with his hybrid dancehall outfit, Major Lazer, at the Ma ... More >>

Class Warfare

Vampire Weekend and Beach House at the Fillmore Miami Beach, October 13

Photo by Ian Witlen​Check out the full 30-photo Vampire Weekend slideshow.Vampire WeekendWith the Very Best and Beach HouseWednesday, October 13, 2010The Fillmore Miami BeachBetter Than: Madras cocktails and self-loathing at a WASP family gathering. (Probably?)Enough verbiage has been devoted to p ... More >>

MP3s From ARP, Opening For Caribou at Grand Central Next Tuesday

photo by Sean McFarlandARP​Next Tuesday's Caribou show at Grand Central just continues the wave of musical excitement washing up on Miami's shores this October. (Before this, of course, there's Beach House and Vampire Weekend at the Fillmore on Wednesday -- if you got tickets -- and Active Child a ... More >>

Beach House plays with Vampire Weekend at the Fillmore October 13

Beach House Talks Touring With Vampire Weekend and Tipping the Billboard Charts

Photo by Jason Nocito​​On a first encounter, a Beach House song, much like the boarded-up building from which it takes its name, can offer a lot to unpack. There is, above all, always an unforgettable, sometimes eerie melody, stretched out with a drowsy fluidity by singer and organist Victoria L ... More >>

Vampire Weekend Gets the Club Treatment with Two Remixes

​We're pretty sure most of you are at least somewhat hyped about Vampire Weekend coming to the Fillmore on October 14 with Beach House. But the Columbia-bred indie darlings aren't necessarily everyone's cup of tea. Though you'll likely hear their jams everywhere from the radio and TV commercials ... More >>

MGMT, Serj Tankian, Louis C.K. Announce Fillmore Miami Beach Dates (Not Together)

via facebook.com/mgmtMGMT does the Fillmore Miami Beach a couple week after Yeasayer.​Here are three more nuggets of awesomeness from New Times' Best Endangered Live Music Venue, the Fillmore Miami Beach. Nearly every week brings a new announcement of a major act there, and one more chip away at B ... More >>

Vampire Weekend Teams Up with Kid Cudi, Best Coast for a New Converse Collaboration

You'll probably recognize Vampire Weekend's keyboardist/guitarist and backup vocalist Rostam Batmanglij in the video above, where he talks to Converse about his musical beginnings. You can catch him along with the rest of the band on October 13 with Beach House. But if you can't wait that long, Batm ... More >>

Nil Lara

Miami Legend Nil Lara Plays Tobacco Road This Saturday

via facebook.com/nillara​Longtime Miami music fans approaching an impending "certain age" may forever speak wistfully about the early '90s South Beach scene around the Stephen Talkhouse, and the local star it birthed: Nil Lara. Yes, it was a hallowed time, and Lara, the scene's perceived savi ... More >>

Vampire Weekend Returns to Fillmore Miami Beach October 13, Beach House Opens!

We've lost track of the hype-backlash-hype-backlash cycle that aims to tell us whether it's currently "cool" to like Vampire Weekend or not -- but who really cares. The band's sophomore album, Contra, achieved the previously unthinkable feat of scoring number one on the Billboard charts. It was welc ... More >>

Concert Review: boyhaveheart!, Radar vs. Wolf, Danielle Steele, the Speakeasies at Sweat Records

James Bratton and Tom Gorio of Radar vs. Wolf​Radar vs. Wolf With boyhaveheart, Danielle Steele, and the Speakeasies Sweat Records, Miami Saturday, May 8, 2010 Better Than: Playing musical chairs. The Review: Radar vs. Wolf had it all planned out: They picked out the venue, assembled the line-up ... More >>

Gil Scott-Heron, the Godfather of Rap, sets out to prove the revolution will be televised

Daft Punk, Naomi Campbell, Cat Power Offer Goods to Help Haiti

​Just because there are some shady allegations about Wyclef Jean's Yele Haiti foundation doesn't mean all celeb-assisted Haiti-relief efforts aren't to be trusted. And just because the devastation in the nearby nation has been out of the news recently doesn't mean you should stop giving.Crafts for ... More >>

Nas, Weezer, Damian Marley, Flaming Lips and Rise Against Among Acts Confirmed for SunFest 2010 April 28 - May 2

311 performing at SunFest 2009​West Palm Beach hasn't had this much musical excitement since Ozzy Osbourne rolled through town. An impressive crop of national acts are set to play the 28th installment of SunFest, which takes place April 28 - May 2 in downtown West Palm Beach along Florida's Intrac ... More >>

Surfer Blood Enter Remix Chamber to Benefit Haiti

​Current NPR darlings Surfer Blood already got a co-sign from Brooklyn electro-house producer Drop the Lime when he spoke about the bands he spins when not spinning for cash in an interview last year. Now the DJ, who rolled through Miami last month, has taken his adoration to the next step by remi ... More >>

Video: Tristan Clopet Covers Vampire Weekend's "Cousins"

The handsome Canadian transplant Tristan Clopet is something of a musical anomaly on the local scene. With his band, the Juice, he skips both the indie flavors of the week and the super-commercial aspirations of others around town. Instead, his music recalls those heady days of the early '90s, when ... More >>

Surfer Blood to Play With Superchunk at Village Voice Media's SXSW Showcase

Photo by Ian WitlenSurfer Blood​Zach Baron, at our sister paper the Village Voice, called Surfer Blood's million-show spate at this past fall's CMJ a "coronation." By now, with the glowing reviews for Astro Coast, and rumors it's entered both the Billboard Heatseekers and Top 200 charts, that seem ... More >>

Green Sky and Shroud Eaters

MP3s of the Day: New EP From Green Sky, Playing a Sweat In-Store This Saturday

​Pity the hapless hipster who wanders into Sweat Records this Saturday night looking for a copy of Vampire Weekend's Contra. In an unusual but welcome change, the evening's in-store takes a turn away from the mellow indie and towards the grimy, in a four-band show organized by local trio Green Sky ... More >>

Sweat Records In-Stores This Week: Animal Tropical and John Hancock Tonight, Roofless Records Tomorrow

via myspace.com/animaltropicalmusic​For a while there, especially around the summer of 2008, you couldn't go to PS14 -- or any of those usual Miami local-oriented events -- without running into the Down Home Southernaires.Their name never made sense, but what did click was their sort of Talking He ... More >>

Dialed In: Top Tens From Local College Radio

Raveonettes still rule at RadiateDialed In is a new weekly column on Crossfade tracking the top-ten lists for South Florida's campus radio stations. University of Miami - WVUM 90.5 FM, "The Voice" The Voice is dedicated to playing music that commercial stations leave out of their broadcasts.1 ... More >>

Iggy Pop: King of the Dogs

He gets down, dirty, and quieter on his new album, written in Miami.

Abe Vigoda

Skeleton (PPM)

Last Night: Anthony Green at Culture Room

Full Q&A with Locksley, live with Rooney and the Bridges tonight at Revolution

Vampire Weekend: Scary Name, Friendly Music

It's more Manilow than morbid.

Tuesday Afternoon Music Fix: Del the Funky Homosapien, Cajun Dance Party and more

Langerado: No Vampire! Denied!

Langerado Kicks into Full Gear

La La Love You

The improbable redemption of Ashlee Simpson.

Vampire Weekend is Just Catchy Enough

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Vampire Weekend (XL Recordings)