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Article: Vampire Weekend is about to start
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- Evening News - Scotland
- Article date:
- May 2, 2008
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Brooklyn boys add bite to white rock
SUCH was the avalanche of media attention surrounding New Yorkers
Vampire Weekend, the slayers were baying for their blood before they
had the chance to step into the light.
Before they had even released their debut album, Spin Magazine
and Rolling Stone had raised the stakes by naming them as one of
2008's best bands. And the inevitable backlash from this media
fawning led to the four Columbia University graduates being slated
in the blogosphere for making soulless upper-middle-class white
rock. They also had to take a lot of flak for their preppy fashion
sense.
But the Brooklynites, who come to Liquid Room tomorrow, silenced
many of those critics ...