Zachary Woolfe: Another Long Vampire Weekend

by Zachary WoolfeIt’s easy to know that a band is good, and harder to know what they’ll mean for people. In 2006, I knew, as did a bunch of Columbia students and some folks on the Internet, ...

by Zachary Woolfe It’s easy to know that a band is good, and harder to know what they’ll mean for people. In 2006, I knew, as did a bunch of Columbia students and some folks on the Internet, that Vampire Weekend was good. I knew this only because I happened, at the time, to be dating a friend of two of the band’s members. In this capacity I would go to their shows, one of those relationship tasks that would have been pretty annoying if the band didn’t put on really good shows. By the time their first album came out in January 2008, that boyfriend and I had long since broken up, and Vampire Wee

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