Article: COMMENTARY: Vampire Weekend features world influences

Ryan Kathman
University Wire
03-26-2008
(Daily Nebraskan) (UWIRE) LINCOLN, Neb. -- People who caught musical guest Vampire Weekend perform on Saturday Night Live on March 8 may have noticed some discrepancies between what they saw and what they heard.

The band's featured songs blended African rhythms with college rock lyrics, supported by the classical touch of a string quartet.

But the 20-something musicians creating this world-music sound looked like the kind of white, East Coast yuppies who might play the bad guys in a 1980s frat movie. The lead singer even sported a preppy wool sweater.

It was as incongruous as if guest host Amy Adams had stepped in for Fred Armisen to play Barack Obama ...

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