Subject: Vampire Weekend

• Who's Going to Pitchfork?

  July 15, 2008

• Forkified: Pitchfork Recap

  July 21, 2008

• SXSW Friday: Hot Sun, Hot Leg

  Hot Leg? Hot Ass!We hit the Village Voice day party to catch a little bit of the moody/pleasant rock of Meese along with some sweet fajitas, and we were only at the Next Big Nashville day party long enough to catch some tuning up in between acts, but that's because we managed to finagle some Spin Magazine invite-only laminates, and we wanted to catch Boston's Passion Pit, Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins' new outfit Hot Leg and maybe a little of Echo and the Bunnymen. So it was off to Stubb's to

  March 21, 2009

• K'Naan Makes 50 Cent Look Like Limp Bizkit

  December 4, 2008

• Buy the Books

  October 2, 2008

• Hippies, Heat and Hot Jams

  June 12, 2008

• Global Citizens

  May 15, 2008

• Quarterly Report

  Taking stock of 2008's most buzzed albums...so far

  April 3, 2008

• Vampire Week

  March 20, 2008

• The Spin

  March 20, 2008

• Ade Aid

  Ah, summertime and a boy's fancy turns to getting his drank on. Just as movie studios scramble to produce the perfect summer fluff and record companies strive to find the linchpin to your beach trip play list, mixologists are hard at work in their laboratories concocting the perfect cocktail to quench your thirst and lower your inhibitions. We've all lived through the sex on the beach phase and experienced the virtual international travel to the worlds of caipirinhas and mojitos. But what wi

  June 8, 2009

• Those Darlins take (the) country by storm

  June 25, 2009

• Need to Get On the List?

  ​You know what going to shows in this town is like: cover charges, grossies, bands, drunks, exes. Somebody's playing every night of the week, and if you actually spent the money to get into these shows, how would you ever have the dough to drop on the new Vampire Weekend record? That's where "the list" comes in handy. One 8 1/2 x 11, Sharpie-coated little problem-solver. The hot prob is, everybody and their mother is always trying to get on the list. If you're in a band and you've played so m

  September 16, 2009

• The indie-fication of metal, 2009

  December 24, 2009

• Vampire Weekend Play The Ryman April 5

  These guys make "African" music.​Two years ago, I had a friend. Let's call him Josiah. Josiah had what I'd call "good" taste in music. One day, he put on a CD and started excitedly dancing around and singing about Oxford commas and Cape Cod. At first, I laughed and said, "Josiah, why are you getting so into Jimmy Buffett right now--are you rocking out to this ironically?" Then the next track started, after throwing up a little in my mouth, I was forced to proclaim, "Jesus fucking Christ

  January 4, 2010

• Morning Roundup: Snowstorm Edition

  ​Storm the grocery stores! Barricade the children! We're supposed to get two to four inches of snow tomorrow. And not just any kind of snow, the light powdery kind that blows around and decreases visibility. (Who says Nashville isn't the new L.A.?) ... Gov. Bredesen decided against a proposal to release some 3,000 inmates convicted of nonviolent felonies early to save money. The reason? It won't work, he says--judges will just fill the empty spaces again immediately with overflow from the cou

  January 6, 2010

• Road Trip to Indio, Calif.: Coachella Lineup Announced

  Music geek porn.While we here in Middle Tennessee have no shortage of long, large-scale, sun-drenched music festivals to look forward to, it's hard not to be jealous of the lucky fucks in Southern California today. And it's not because their hot days are dry, winters don't exist, they aren't a decade behind the cultural curve and they have an ocean. This bit of coastal-envy is inspired by the Coachella line-up that was announced yesterday. It's un-fucking-real. Peep it after the jump.

  January 20, 2010

• Road Trip to Knoxville: Big Ears Festival 2010

  Click for detail.​Next week, SXSW will kick off the 2010 festival season, which will reach critical mass in the U.S. with Middle Tennessee's very own Bonnaroo festival in June. Of course, you already know of those happenings. A festival you may not be aware of, however, is Knoxville's Big Ears Fest. A mere two weeks away, this East Tennessee carnival of ear candy features a diverse lineup of artists ranging from distinguished guitarist (and Nashville resident) Adrian Belew to motivational

  March 10, 2010

• Advice to the Graduate: SXSW Cherry Pop

  Image via Wired.​This week, both Adam Goldy-Poo and D. Patsy Rodgers are headed to Austin's annual taco-tastic, beer-laden "music" festival, SXSW. They are dudes in bands, dudes who've seen tons of shows, dudes who've played tons of shows, and dudes who've covered tons of shows. But they've never covered SXSW. And now they're about to embark on a journey of sizzling hipster throngs and unrivaled musician spottings and tons of swag and all the temptations and headaches involved in bringing toge

  March 16, 2010