The new Vampire Weekend album is both a comeback and a repudiation. The band’s first album in six years, Father of the Bride jumbles tropes and references with characteristic density. In today’s ...

As chaotic and inventive as Vampire Weekend’s arrangements get over five studio albums, things never feel out of control. The production and mixing are impressively ornate, a wedding cake that could ...

Vampire Weekend's emergence coincided with a bunch of trends: rock bands influenced by world music, rock bands that dress like preppies and pop-culture phenomena connected in some way to vampires. The ...

That the members of Vampire Weekend know the Arctic Monkeys’ “505” and the Cranberries’ “Dreams” — but not Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Freebird” — is completely on brand. During the audience request encore of ...