Ezra Koenig

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Vampire Weekend To Tour North America This Summer In Support Of New Album

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With a new album, 'Father Of The Bride,' due out in spring, the GRAMMY-winning rock band gets set to hit the road
Nate Hertweck
GRAMMYs
Jan 30, 2019 - 12:22 pm

Just last week, Ezra Koenig and his band Vampire Weekened gifted fans two new songs and announced their forthcoming album, Father Of The Bride, is coming this spring. Now, the band have revealed plans for a sprawling North American tour in support of the new album.

The extensive run kicks off May 17 at Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores, Ala., and wraps up at the world-famous Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Denver, making stops along the way in Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta, Boston, and New York City,  at Madison Square Garden. The tour will also send Vampire Weekend to Europe for a few dates during the month of July.

In an odd glimpse of their upcoming album, the band teased their new project with 120 minutes of guitar riffs of one song, "Harmony Hall," which was one of the two new tracks unleashed last week.

Vampire Weekend earned their first career GRAMMY for Best Alternative Album for 2013's Modern Vampires Of The City. Their new album will be their first since Modern Vampires… and their fourth overall studio album. An exact release date is yet to be announced.

 

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Tickets for the upcoming tour are available now via Ticketmaster.

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Peter Bjorn and John

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Peter Bjorn And John Celebrate Turning 20 In 2020 With New Album & U.S. Tour

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"It's about people trying to find colors in this dark world," John Eriksson, one-third of the Swedish indie-rock trio, explains
Ana Monroy Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Oct 18, 2019 - 5:24 pm

Today, Swedish indie-rock stalwarts Peter Bjorn and John revealed they'll be releasing their ninth studio album, Endless Dream, on March 13, 2020 via INGRID. The announcement comes with the LP's catchy lead single, "Rusty Nail," and dates for a supporting 2020 U.S. tour.

The start of the new decade also marks the Stockholm-based band's 20th anniversary, so what better way to celebrate then with new music and a run of shows?

The tour kicks shortly after the album drops, on March 23 in Los Angeles, at the Teragram Ballroom. After a string of dates on the West Coast, the "Young Folks" will hit up St. Paul, Minn. on April 3 and Chicago the following day. After a few more dates, including two nights in Philadelphia, they'll wrap things up with an April 10th show at the newly reopened Webster Hall in New York and, finally, at Brighton Music Hall in Boston on April 11.

Endless Dream follows their three-track EPBJ EP, released February of this year, which served as a B-sides of sorts (the music was recorded during the same time) to their 2018 album, Darker Days. A press release for the forthcoming album notes the creative journey of this album began "almost immediately after Darker Days."

"We were in a good place," Peter Morén explained, via the press release. "It's the light to the darkness—the day to the night." John Eriksson added, "This time the tone is bright. It's about people trying to find colors in this dark world."

While the work on the ninth album began not long after the eighth, they approached the creative process a bit differently, stripping things down.

"We realized we wanted to cut the crap, so we rehearsed songs in the same room and recorded together. For post-production, every guy was on his own taking care of his baby—and then we came back and had our baby together," Bjorn Yttling said.

More info on the tour, including ticketing info, can be found on the band's site.

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Vampire Weekend

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Vampire Weekend Announce 2020 Tour Dates

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As Ezra Koenig and company closed out a show at Madison Square Garden in NYC, they revealed new North American tour dates, beginning in spring 2020
Ana Monroy Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Sep 9, 2019 - 1:33 pm

This year has been a big one for Vampire Weekend, who, after months of double-single releases, dropped their long-awaited follow up to 2013's GRAMMY-winning Modern Vampires Of The City. The GRAMMY winners shared the epic 18-track Father of the Bride on May 3 and began part one of the supporting tour in June.

Now, this past Friday, Sept. 6, as Ezra Koenig and company closed out a show at Madison Square Garden in New York, they revealed new North American tour dates, beginning spring 2020, with tickets going on sale this week.

The alt-rock group will wrap up the second leg of the FOTB Tour and second decade of the century in Australia for the four dates of the multi-city Falls Festival. The trek will pick back up in North America on May 29, 2020 in Westbrook, Maine, with 19 more shows slated across the U.S. and Canada. The 2020 dates include many cities they will miss on their current run, including Ashville, N.C. on June 12, Detroit on Sept. 24 and New Orleans on Oct. 6.

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In addition to giving their fans more chances to see them live, the three-hour Garden show in Vampire Weekend's birthplace of New York City marked the first live performance of "Sunflower" that included collaborator Steve Lacy. You can check out a fan video of the performance below. As the upload reveals, they also performed a version of "Dark Red," from Steve Lacy's Demo, Lacy's 2017 solo EP, his first release outside of his music with The Internet.

Presales for the new dates begin this Wednesday, Sept. 11 at 10 a.m. local time, with general sales starting Sept. 13. Tickets are also still available for select previously announced dates. All tour info can be found on VampireWeekend.com

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Thom Yorke Announces New Album, 'ANIMA'

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The Radiohead frontman's third solo album will feature several songs he debuted during his Tomorrow's Modern Boxes tour
Ana Monroy Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Jun 20, 2019 - 12:56 pm

Thom Yorke fans can rejoice, the suspense is finally over. The elusive experimental artist has confirmed details for his follow-up to 2014's Tomorrow's Modern Boxes. ANIMA, the GRAMMY-winning Radiohead frontman's third solo studio album, will be released digitally by XL Records on June 27, followed by a physical release on July 19.

A press release states that the album's nine tracks include "several songs that were debuted live over the course of Thom Yorke, [producer] Nigel Godrich and [audiovisual artist] Tarik Barri's Tomorrow's Modern Boxes performances." As Pitchfork points out, the tracklist contains a song called "Dawn Chorus," which diehard fans may recognize as one of Radiohead's mystery songs they have used but never released.

The trio will be bringing the trippy, immersive Tomorrow's Modern Boxes experience on tour again soon, with new fall North American dates recently announced, to follow the July shows in Europe and Asia. All new shows go on sale to the general public tomorrow, June 21, with venue pre-sales currently open. You can find complete tour info here, and pre-sale info from the specific venues and ticketing platforms.

The new album is currently available for pre-order, which includes several vinyl options, all of which come with a bonus track, "Ladies & Gentlemen, Thank You for Coming." The limited-edition orange deluxe double vinyl comes with a hardcover lyric and art book.

The new album will be accompanied by a visual short of the same name, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, with music by Yorke, featuring three tracks from the LP. The mysterious trailer, which you can watch below, was released today by Netflix, who will host the "one-reeler" video on June 27.

Earlier this year, Yorke released two new instrumental songs, which he was commissioned to write by the Philarmonie de Paris for French pianists Katia and Marielle Labeque, as part of the "Minimalist Dream House." His most recent full-length release was 2018's Suspiria, an instrumental score he recorded for Luca Guadagnino's film of the same name. Radiohead's most recent album is 2016's A Moon Shaped Pool.

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Lucy Dacus Plots Extensive North American Headlining Tour

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Following a handful of summer festival appearances, Dacus will launch into a long string of dates this fall across the U.S. and Canada
Nate Hertweck
GRAMMYs
May 28, 2019 - 5:00 pm

Lucy Dacus is probably coming to a town near you. The celebrated singer/songwriter announced a sprawling North American tour this fall following July appearances at the iconic Newport Folk Festival, Philadelphia's XPoNential Festival, a taping of Austin City Limits TV with Julien Baker (followed by a show together the following night) and a performance Sept. 5 at Raleigh, N.C.'s Hopscotch Festival.

The run of headlining dates kicks off Sept. 10 in Lancaster, Pa., and treks across the U.S. and Canada for nearly 30 dates, wrapping up Nov. 6 in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Putting any of notion of a sophomore slump to bed with her 2018 album Historian, Dacus took on the year 2019 with an ambitions project of the same name. 2019 is Dacus' series of singles themed and released around various holidays. So far, she's dropped a version of "La Vie en Rose" for Valentine's Day and "My Mother & I" for Mother's Day, with songs still on the way for Independence Day, Halloween, Christmas, New Year's and, of course, Bruce Springsteen's birthday (Sept. 23). Dacus reportedly plans to release the collection on a physical EP later this year. 

For a full list of tour dates and information on tickets, which go on-sale Friday, May 31, visit Dacus' website. 

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