Vampire Weekend Kick off Big Tour Tonight
As you know, we've fallen pretty hard for Vampire Weekend here at Pitchfork. (Full disclosure: one of us knows these dudes from college.) And, heck, maybe you have too, in the handful of hours you've had to have and hold their Best New Music-earning self-titled debut.
So, fans to fans and friends to friends, let us help you help yourself to a little slice of the Weekend smack in the middle of the workweek: Vampire Weekend are heading out on a sizable tour starting this evening in their native New York City. It will lead them from their native New York to the UK, from Langerado to Coachella, and quite a few points in between. Whether with the Walkmen or without, on a stage large or small, from Williamstown, Massachusetts to as far outta Cape Cod as they can get themselves, it's the freakin' Weekend, and baby, you're about to have you some fun.
BONUS! Want to see some stills from Vampire Weekend, the film that inspired the band name? Check out frontman Ezra Koenig's old blog here.
And what's the film about? Koenig writes, "I play the protagonist Walcott, a young man whose country is invaded by
vampires. The film opens with the death of Walcott's father at the
hands of a sunglasses-wearing werewolf vampire. His dad's last words
are:
Walcott, you must go to
Cape Cod. Tell the Mayor that vampires are taking over your country.
You must kill as many of them as...possible.
The rest of the film is Walcott's bloody march to the Cape!"
Vampire Weekend:
01-29 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom !
01-30 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom ^
01-31 San Francisco, CA - Popscene
02-01 San Francisco, CA - Amoeba Records (in-store)
02-04 Los Angeles, CA - Amoeba Records (in-store)
02-06 Washington, DC - Rock and Roll Hotel
02-07 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
02-08 Williamstown, MA - Williams College Currier Ballroom
02-09 Boston, MA - Museum of Fine Arts
02-11 Toronto, Ontario - Horseshoe Tavern
02-13 Cincinnati, OH - The Gypsy Hut
02-14 Columbus, OH - Wexner Center
02-15 Pittsburgh, PA - Andy Warhol Museum
02-21 London, England - ULU
02-22 Wolverhampton, England - Civic
02-23 Oxford, England - Academy
02-24 Brighton, England - Audio
02-27 Manchester, England - Academy 2
02-28 Glasgow, Scotland - Classic Grand
03-06 Orlando, FL - The Social *
03-07 South Florida Everglades, FL - Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation (Langerado)
03-08 St. Augustine, FL - Café Eleven *
03-09 Atlanta, GA - The Earl *
03-10 Birmingham, AL - The Bottletree *
03-12-16 Austin, TX - SXSW
03-19 San Diego, CA - The Casbah
03-20 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey
03-22 San Francisco, CA - The Independent
03-23 San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Shop
03-25 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
03-26 Seattle, WA - Neumos
03-27 Vancouver, British Columbia - Richards on Richards
03-29 Missoula, MT - Badlander
03-30 Boise, ID - Neurolux
04-01 Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater
04-25 Indio, CA - Coachella
! with Beat the Devil, Sam Rosen
^ with Aa, Plastic Little
* with the Walkmen
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