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Vampire Weekend Unplugged on La Blogotheque

by Eric Van Dril on February 5, 2010

in Music, Musicians

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Thom’s voice is so beautiful during this song.

After the jump are four more videos (entire concert coming on Friday) and a link to download the entire concert. [click to continue…]

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Strokes IV: Who is Joeseph Chiccarelli? What Does Avatar Studios Mean?

The Strokes made a pretty big splash yesterday when the blogosphere finally realized they were recording, thanks in-large to an official announcement on their website.  Of course, if you read this site on a regular basis, you knew that The Strokes started recording in early January when Nick Valensi returned to New York City.
(It’s fun [...]

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Julian Casablancas & Alex Carapetis – “Empire State of Mind”

Just stumbled across this, which confirms that Alex Carapetis is the dopest man alive…

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Radiohead Joins Twitter

Things are quiet, but make sure you followed @radiohead, which is the handle of the band’s confirmed account.

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2nd Dead Weather LP Due in April

Jack White told the following to Australian radio station Triple J last week…
“[The Dead Weather are] finishing recording the last couple of songs and then I’m going to start mixing in the next two weeks, so yeah it should be out in April,” White said. The Dead Weather drummer also added that he would be [...]

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Kings of Leon Win ‘Record of the Year’

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The Only Reason to Watch The Grammys Tonight

…is Kings of Leon, who received a bunch of nominations for “Use Somebody”.
Most pre-Only By The Night fans are probably of the same opinion: ‘”Use Somebody” is fucking piece of shit and one of the worst things that has happened to KOL.  It’s the moment they sold out.’
If it makes the hardcore/diehard KOL fans feel [...]

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The Lamest Julian Casablancas Interview Ever

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Thom Yorke’s Supergroup Confirmed For Coachella

Thom Yorke will be accompanied by his supergroup during his set at Coachella Festival. As I wrote last week, this was the logical choice over a Yorke solo show and it instantly makes the Yorke supergroup the most interesting set of the weekend.
The simple reason is because when Yorke, Flea, Nigel Godrich, Mauro Refosco and [...]

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Salinger Sucessfully Finds a More Effective Hiding Spot (R.I.P. J.D.)

Early winner for best story title of the year goes to The Mail’s retrospective about J.D. Salinger titled ‘Why did J.D. Salinger spend the last 60 years hiding in a shed writing love notes to teenage girls?’
It is the Mail and the claims in the story are pretty tough to confirm because Salinger was such [...]

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Phoenix Covers Dylan’s ‘Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands’

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YouTube Concert of the Week: Coldplay in Tokyo

I know, I know: Coldplay, as Thom Yorke said, is lifestyle music.  They aren’t cool to write about and definitely are one of the bands that no Strokes fan should (willingly) admit to liking, though Albert opened for them while he was promoting ‘(backwards question mark thingy)Como Te Llamas?’
But as I’ve said before, I really, [...]

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