event Vampire Weekend
Also Playing: Abe Vigoda
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Mon Mar 22
7 pm
Vampire Weekend and Abe Vigoda at First Avenue
Few bands get big the way Vampire Weekend got big. The members met as students at Columbia University and seemed to take over the world more or less the next day, with a self-titled debut that scanned as worldly in more ways than one. Singer Ezra Koenig placed his tales of privileged youth atop the jubilant strumming and bouncy syncopation of West African music—a glib Graceland, of sorts—and the speed of the New York band’s ascendance, combined with accusations of musical colonization, caused certain kinds of controversy. Contra, a new album that features lush arrangements, a yen for sonic experimentation, and the rhyming of “horchata” and “balaclava,” promises to stoke the flames.
First Avenue 701 1st Ave. N., Twin Cities, MN
Few bands get big the way Vampire Weekend got big. The members met as students at Columbia University and seemed to take over the world more or less the next day, with a self-titled debut that scanned as worldly in more ways than one. Singer Ezra Koenig placed his tales of privileged youth atop the jubilant strumming and bouncy syncopation of West African music—a glib Graceland, of sorts—and the speed of the New York band’s ascendance, combined with accusations of musical colonization, caused certain kinds of controversy. Contra, a new album that features lush arrangements, a yen for sonic experimentation, and the rhyming of “horchata” and “balaclava,” promises to stoke the flames.
Updated 08/25/2010
