Ezra Koenig is drinking from a Zabar’s mug when he logs onto Zoom, the famed New York City deli’s signature orange logo peeking out from behind a porcelain handle. It’s proof that wherever the Vampire ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Father of the Bride marks a new beginning for Vampire Weekend. It is their first album since key member Rostam ...

“Nobody knows what the future holds/And it’s bad enough just getting old” sang 29-year-old Ezra Koenig on “Diane Young”, a microcosm of the existential dread of Vampire Weekend’s third album Modern ...

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… ...

Ezra Koenig’s description of the time it’s taken to follow up Modern Vampires Of The City as working at “a dignified pace” is drolly self-aware – six years is an eternity in his game. But the ...

Jude Law has been revealed as a special surprise guest on the Japanese edition of Vampire Weekend‘s new album ‘Father of the Bride’. The band’s fourth album, the follow-up to 2013’s ‘Modern Vampires ...

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“I think I take myself too serious / It’s not that serious”, Ezra Koenig croaks approximately halfway through Vampire Weekend’s new album ‘Father Of The Bride’. It arrives at the start of ‘Sympathy’, ...