Has there ever been a better time to appreciate Vampire Weekend? This is a band, of course, whose modus operandi has long been to pierce the bubble of moneyed privilege surrounding places like ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 released another beloved album with their fourth LP Father of the Bride, and despite its sprawling 18-song tracklisting, they still managed to sneak three bonus tracks onto the ...

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 ...

Vampire Weekend have shared new studio album Father Of The Bride. It's the band's first album since 2013 and their first since the departure of Rostam Batmanglij in 2016. The hugely collaborative ...

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… ...

In the final moments of Vampire Weekend's concert at Madison Square Garden on Friday night (Sept. 6), the rockers dropped a string of new tour dates to keep the Father of the Bride trek going for one… ...

Koenig is well past qualifying as a youthful provocateur. What he can be now is a man in his mid-30s with a “worried mind,” as he sings on “Harmony Hall”—worried about the misalignment between his own ...