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Photos: Vampire Weekend at the Ames Hotel

Vampire Weekend, live at the Ames Hotel, April 1, 2010
Photos of Vampire Weekend at a WFNX accoustic session at the Ames Hotel
By MELISSA OSTROW | April 13, 2010

Vampire Weekend | Contra

XL (2010)
There are a few words I did not expect to use in describing Vampire Weekend's second album. Paul-Simony-er is one of them.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | January 11, 2010

The Very Best | Warm Heart of Africa

Green Owl (2009)
This proper full-length debut of the Very Best — a star-crossed collaboration of Malawian singer Esau Mwamwaya and London-based production duo Radioclit — should work better than it does.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | October 27, 2009

Suite relief

Dirty Projectors' breakthrough has but one concept: Rule
For Longstreth, the pressure's been ratcheted up following the online leak a couple of months ago of Dirty Projectors' fifth LP, Bitte Orca (Domino) which is finally, officially out this week.
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG | June 10, 2009

The Big Hurt: The year in not really giving a shit

Maybe next year, music
In the annals of American pop history, 2008 will surely go down as a year when our nation had more-important shit to worry about than music.
By DAVID THORPE | December 24, 2008

Friends of John

Ra Ra Riot head up a benefit for their fallen Drummer
Most people at the Middle East downstairs on December 15 probably didn’t know John Pike, the 23-year-old drummer of New York’s Ra Ra Riot who drowned on June 1.
By GEORGIANA COHEN | December 26, 2007