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Watch the New York band perform a 12-song set, featuring material from its new album, Modern Vampires of the City. For this performance, recorded for KCRW, Vampire Weekend took a night off from a West Coast tour to play for a small audience of eager fans at Apogee’s Berkeley Street Studio in Santa Monica.
Jaimeo Brown
This World Ain’t My Home
from “Transcendence”
The somewhat pretentious blurb says:
Transcendence is acoustic jazz rooted in African-American spirituals and East Indian concepts, highlighted with electronic textures. “To catch them now is to see a piece of history — twenty years from now, jazz fans will be bragging that they saw this show.”
Valerie June
You Can’t Be Told
Dads & daughters are the best.
Bullseye
I feel ridiculously lucky to be a bystander in my daughter’s world.
A stripped-back and primal mix of country and bluegrass:
