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Article: Vampire Weekend makes a good impression
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
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- December 18, 2007
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Music Review
Vampire Weekend
With Ra Ra Riot and Tokyo Police Club
At: the Middle East Downstairs, Saturday night
CAMBRIDGE - One of the year's most important music stories
belongs to Vampire Weekend, the Columbia University-bred rock band
that played the Middle East Downstairs on Saturday night. Formed by
four twentysomethings smitten with world influences - and
specifically with the Soweto sound made famous by Paul Simon's
"Graceland" - Vampire Weekend has not yet released a full-length
record. One is planned for February; in the meantime, there is an EP
and a handful of online recordings.
Still, on the indie rock scene - an inward-facing world, to be
sure - Vampire Weekend has made a ...