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Article: Vampire slayers; Barely out of college and already anointed "band of the year," the blog-rock stars of Vampire Weekend try to graduate to real-world success.(ENTERTAINMENT)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- March 30, 2008
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Byline: CHRIS RIEMENSCHNEIDER; STAFF WRITER
This time last year, the fellas in Vampire Weekend had already started to feel the buzz. They were being touted by influential music websites and courted by record companies. Success was just one Louis Vuitton or Benetton lyrical reference away.
Only one thing stood in their way: Bassist Chris Baio still had to graduate from Columbia University, where the band had formed only a year earlier.
"We were meeting with labels while I was still a senior and still writing papers and all that," Baio recalled, calling from a tour van last week as Vampire Weekend traveled from San Francisco to Portland, Ore. "On ...