Vampire Weekend has had their songs in commercials before, but now it seems like their hit song "Campus" was used to serve as 'exciting background music' for the trailer to The Lorax , which I believe is one of those Dr. Seuss books that is about kids doing drugs or having sex, or something. I'm pretty sure every 'classic children's book' was actually sorta dark and/or written by a Penn-State-wave bro who hated the world, but loved young children. Anyways, it is great to hear the riffs of a song abt Ivy League romance in a children's ...

This aired during the Super Bowl, so it technically counts as a part of a "indie band in commercials" trend ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/vampire-weekend-and-dr-seuss-kick-it-in-ad-for-the/61502/

Hospitality Hospitality [Merge; 2012] by Nick RS Rating: With Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) , The Kinks built the ideal pop concept album by cannily constructing an entirely convincing post-colonial landscape out of a collage of musical idioms and cultural signifiers from across the Anglophone world. By layering tambourine and twanging guitars over hymnlike structures and juxtaposing kazoo with harpsichord, Ray Davies made scarcely 50 minutes of wax feel like it might contain centuries of world history. Indie pop crew Hospitality’s self-titled debut hints at that sort of thaumaturgy, although its subject — the directionless inanity ...

Martin Mills, founder/CEO of the Britain's Beggars Group, has been awarded the 2011 IMPALA Outstanding Contribution Award in recognition of his achievements in independent music. The Beggars Group includes labels XL Recordings, Rough Trade, Matador and 4AD and such artists as Adele, Vampire Weekend, Tyler The Creator and Radiohead. Label Love, an initiative to support labels hurt by the SonyDADC distribution centre fire in Enfield after last summer's London riots, was also recognized.

Hospitality Hospitality Merge Records [2012] Fire Note Says: Brooklyn trio Hospitality offer up a stylish indie pop debut. Album Review: Hospitality are a superbly rich sounding trio out of Brooklyn that just released their debut of sophisticated indie pop on Merge Records. The band is led by the likable Amber Papini that delivers her focused lyrics with a wisp of an English accent via Kansas City as she credits hours of practice imitating Richard Butler of The Psychedelic Furs. Her carefree attitude instantly hooks the listener here as the intelligent music arrangements and solid playing from the band helps make ...

Die kalifornischen Indie-Pop-Newcomer Princeton haben ihren zweiten Langspieler für Ende Februar angekündigt. Das Werk wird den Titel "Remembrance Of Things To Come" tragen und bei Hit City U.S.A./Easter Everywhere erscheinen. Ein genaues Veröffentlichungsdatum außerhalb der USA gibt es dabei allerdings noch nicht. Auf dem Werk präsentiert das Quartett aus Los Angeles lockerleichten und groovigen Indie-Pop im Stile von Bands wie Vampire Weekend oder Phoenix . Bereits im Vorfeld geben sich die Herren spendabel. Den neuen Song "Florida" könnt ihr »hier in der Album-Version und darüber hinaus auch als »Remix herunterladen. Außerdem habt ihr an dieser Stelle die Möglichkeit ...

Returning this year are familiar faces armed with a new collection of songs. Looking ahead, here are a selection of those to be most excited about. MAJOR LAZER “Now that people know what Major Lazer is we can skip a lot of the ground work,” beams the globe-trotting chameleonic don of dance Diplo, who makes up one-half of neo-dancehall outfit Major Lazer alongside fidget-house producer Switch. The dynamic duo dropped debut ‘Guns Don’t Kill People - Lazers Do’ in mid-2009, a storming collaborative frenzy that fused authentic Jamaican riddims with modern bass-heavy hip-hop. Its successor, the Philadelphian explains, is set ...

A while back, at the very start of Blue Sky I began cooresponding through emails with a wonderful young lady from Buenos Aires. She encouraged me with amazing words of support as I set out on this new path alone. Her name was Juana and she participated in our Under the Radar Birthday Special. Juana stayed in touch with me month after month, always unaware that it was during the hard times that she was sending these great inspirational messages. I needed her, and I very much needed someone like her on the team only I did not want to ...

Friday 27th January - The Cube, Bristol A punky Fall / Wire fusion started the show... that bass, a thirsty animal grabbing at the heels of the angled guitar and scooping drums... aggressive sweeps and barking vocals... spears of sonic dissidence ripping through - a band whose sound aptly describes their name - The Falling Stacks ... great stuff... MXLX was next , another guise for Matt W's extensive musical demons... started by clicking a contact mic off his teeth,... squirreling the results away into the looper for later use... scraping it around his molars, piling up the layers in realtime, snap-shooting the overlays infinitum ...

It's still Winter. No matter what the weather reports say, Spring is definitely not on the way. The ClashMusic office is freezing, and we're going to need something pretty special to warm us up. Thankfully Flash Fiktion are on hand. New single 'Starry Glow' is exactly as you would imagine it - blissful euphoria, the track is three minutes of surrendering yourself to the power of a catchy melody. The bass hook is reminiscent of Vampire Weekend, while the keyboards have an 80s, Duran Duran vibe. Focusing on their upcoming debut album, Flash Fiktion took time out to shoot ...

Como vocês sabem, neste final de semana tem M/E/C/A Festival (todas as infos, aqui no site), um dos festivais mais bacanas de ir, vocês estão ligados ;) E, neste ano, com um line (confira os horários aqui) de primeira, praticamente imperdível. E o melhor? É que vamos sortear AGORA 4 INGRESSOS, o que acha? COMO [...] Posts relacionados: [Show & Promoção] Quer ingresso pro Nevilton & Supercolor @ Music Hall? [Festival] Quer ir pro MECA com a gente? Two Door Cinema Club, Vampire Weekend e mais… [Festival] Line up com os horários do M/E/C/A. Quer ingresso?

President Obama's campaigners have always had their finger on the pulse of America's young people. Just check out that "wish list" of celebrities they hoped would publicly endorse and campaign on behalf of the POTUS; all of the cool kids are there, including Jay-Z, Vampire Weekend, Janelle Monáe, Neil Patrick Harris, Anne Hathaway, Jack [...]

The list includes Fire">Arcade Fire, the Roots, Wilco, Regina Spektor, and Vampire Weekend.

Released on flexi-postcard, perhaps the ultimate in that it's a format incorporating two forms of dead media, Fair Ohs' explorations into African hi-life - Eritrean Guayla, it's specified here - refracted both through bubbling indie disco and basement lo-fi take a turn for the psychedelic, slowed down, letting more air bubbles develop between the cracks and somehow even more taut than before. Alright, because of that lack of freneticism it does sound a little more like Vampire Weekend (Contra specifically) than hotwired direct from source, but not in such a way they could be accused of late-on copyage. Salt Flats ...

Fire">Arcade Fire @ Obama Staff Ball (more by Bao Nguyen) A list of celebrities, reportedly created by Obama's campaign, sent out on December 5, and acquired by the Tennessean (PDF HERE), is being passed around the internet. The list, heavily...