Vampire Weekend maps fall headlining dates
Indie-rockers Vampire Weekend have fleshed out a headlining run this fall leading up to appearances at a pair of outdoor music festivals set for late September.
The afrobeat-influenced New Yorkers, who are set to finish off their current summer tour leg tomorrow night (7/29) in Honolulu, will kick off the fall outing Sept. 5 in Portland, OR. In addition to two nights in Los Angeles (9/17-18), the run includes a Sept. 21 slot at San Francisco's Treasure Island Music Festival.
The trek concludes Sept. 27 with an appearance at Austin, TX's Austin City Limits Festival. Dates are below.
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 the Internet. 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.
"Some of the tracks we've had for a long time so we already knew how it was going to sound, it was just a matter of tightening it up and remixing it a little," lead singer Ezra Koenig said of the band's debut in an interview with NME.com earlier this year.
"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," he added.
July 2008
29 - Honolulu, HI - Pipeline Cafe
September 2008
5 - Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
9 - Louisville, KY - Headliners
10 - St. Louis, MO - The Pageant
11 - Lawrence, KS - Liberty Hall
13 - Morrison, CO - Monolith Festival
15 - Las Vegas, NV - The Joint
16 - Pomona, CA - The Glasshouse
17, 18 - Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern Theatre
19 - San Diego, CA - Street Scene
21 - San Francisco, CA - Treasure Island Festival
23 - Tucson, AZ - Rialto Theatre
24 - Tempe, AZ - Marquee Theatre
27 - Austin, TX - Austin City Limits Festival
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