Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Vampire Weekends are the new trend
I’ve seen quite a buzz lately about this new band called Vampire Weekend. They seem to be everywhere on the web (especially on the blogosphere), I’ve heard their song in a commercial, they also performed SNL and the Dave Letterman show.
So I told myself, “hey why not check them out whenever they’re in SF?” — So, Ticketmaster me voilà, oh great they have 2 dates in a month at the Independent. and CRAP! they’re sold out! what?
For those who don’t know, the Independent is a relatively small venue, playing a lot of “independent” stuff. This place has always room for some more people, and is rarely full. Ok, that’s too bad, but a good sign. I have to listen to more of their songs. Here’s their current hit called A-Punk and I have to say: it fr$%^&ing rocks !!!
They come from New York and have a pretty strong African influence, along with an obvious Western influence, therefore describing their own genre as “”Upper West Side Soweto”. I hate defining music as genres usually but that one was pretty original.