Vampire Weekend stays busy with summer dates
Afrobeat-influenced indie-rockers Vampire Weekend will continue to support their debut album with a run of headlining gigs and festival appearances this summer.
The New Yorkers will mount a brief run of headlining shows later this week, kicking off June 7 in Orlando, FL. In late June, the group will head overseas for the summer festival season, with various appearances throughout Europe.
In July, the band returns home for a slate of domestic festival commitments, highlighted by a July 19 slot at Chicago's Pitchfork Music Festival. After another overseas run in August, the group comes back to the US in the fall for another short trek. All of the band's North American dates are included below.
The complete overseas schedule can be found at the group's official website.
Vampire Weekend's highly anticipated, self-titled debut album was released in January, moving over 27,000 copies during its first week and debuting at No. 17 on The Billboard 200 album chart. The album garnered much pre-release hype through word-of-mouth and Internet attention that the band had received. Earlier this year, the band became the first outfit ever to be photographed for the cover of Spin Magazine before releasing its debut, according to the publication.
"We recorded most of it ourselves in a couple of different locations," lead singer Ezra Koenig said of the band's debut in an interview with NME.com earlier this year. "In a friend's basement who had a good setup for recording drums ... we did a lot of it in the band's apartments.
"There's even some stuff on the album that we recorded almost a year ago at our drummer's parents' house in New Jersey, at this barn that they have, so they're really echoey drums."
June 2008
7 - Orlando, FL - Club Firestone
8 - St. Augustine, FL - Cafe Eleven
9 - Miami Beach, FL - The Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater
11 - Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
12 - Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Music Festival
14 - New York, NY - Central Park Summerstage
21 - Philadelphia, PA - Popped! Music Festival
July 2008
19 - Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Music Festival
20 - Toronto, Ontario - Rogers Picnic
25 - Seattle, WA - Capital Hill Block Party
27 - Pemberton, British Columbia - Pemberton Festival
29 - Honolulu, HI - Pipeline Cafe
September 2008
13 - Morrison, CO - Monolith Festival
17, 18 - Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern Theatre
23 - Tucson, AZ - Rialto Theatre
24 - Tempe, AZ - Marquee Theatre
27 - Austin, TX - Austin City Limits Festival
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