- If we had bothered to fight our way into Vampire Weekend’s show at the Cake Shop yesterday we could have met MTV’s John Norris! Maybe Nina Blackwood is outside at their Other Music performance right now! [MTV]
- Not only that, but Vampire Weekend is “the stage right now where everyone who follows music knows who they are, but then mainstream media picks-up on them and ruin it for the rest of it.” Dude, the first place we read about them was the goddamn Times. [Music Snobbery]
- Everybody has seen Vampire Weekend twice and loves them even more the second time around! [17dots]
- Sometimes people love Vampire Weekend so much that they write about them in very solemn terms, like how their songs are “are terse clockwork constructions that equate cooperation with mutual avoidance.” [New York Times]
- But Vampire Weekend wasn’t the only thing we flubbed. We also missed White Williams last night, despite already being at the venue! And after this not-at-all-ridiculous description from the Village Voice–”Like Blondie’s (correction: Debbie Harry’s) ‘Rush Rush’ with the bass dialed, or the Strokes with rhythm, or post-punk if post-punk never happened”–we feel really bad about having taken that extended smoke break! [The Sky Report]
CMJ: We Missed All The Big Shows! Especially Vampire Weekend!
October 18th, 2007 // 14 Comments
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i met john norris in the bathroom at one of my old jobs.
never shake his hand.
he didn’t wash his hands.
the vampire who?
dude, vampires don’t exist.
John Norris: melty wax! melty wax!
Vampire Weekend: worst band in NYC, besides O’Death.
Know how I know Vampire Weekend sucks? The first buzz thing I read about them had the words “Columbia University grads” and “Afro-Beat” in it.
Yes, yes, we know, they’re too popular to be good. SEMPER OBSCURIS!!!!
Are kids ever going to get over this boring bullshit, or in 40 years
is it still going to be, “Yeah, the side effects of Erectopam are
brutal, but the fact that it’s so under-the-radar makes all the bloody
urine and temporary paralysis totally worth it!”
The Vampire Weekend show wasn’t even full, and half the crowd was composed of rock critics. Bumped in to Pareles, had my view briefly obstructed by Voice gentle giant Tom Breihan, and of course, the Norris sighting. He no longer has the icky My Chemical Romance hair, thank god.
Rock and roll should make you want to fuck. On that score, Vampire Weekend is the worst rock band ever. They’re the kind of boys your mom would want you to date. They sound like the band that the pretty popular kids in high school would have play their stupid beach bonfire party. Music is supposed to destroy the rich. VW wears penny loafers. I’m sorry, but it’s not ironic. It’s just white.
If this is what NYC music sounds like these days, bring back heroin.
@totally: “Music is supposed to destroy the rich.”
What handbook are you reading from? Maybe I was absent the
day we learned about Marxist chord progressions. (And this isn’t a
defense of wealth, either; I just think it’s like saying “Music is
supposed to wash your car.”)
@Lucas Jensen: Music will be happy to dry-buff, in that case.
@Bob Loblaw: Sweet.
@Bob Loblaw: We are under water restrictions here in Georgia, so Music would probably get fined.
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