Vampire Weekend will hopefully shoot for "A-Punk" 16 times one day, but until then we can always listen to the song on repeat. Want more clever culture writing beamed directly to your inbox?

Vampire Weekend have always been at least a little bit of a secret ska-punk band. There’s definitely some hup-hup-hup pickitup-pickitup energy to tracks like “Cousins” and “This Life ...

Vampire Weekend's 'Father Of The Bride' track is the source material for a new collection of punk covers from 25 artists.

Jumping into the opening of “A-Punk,” Vampire Weekend’s most-streamed song, the crowd started to hop to the beat. “Johanna drove slowly into the city / The Hudson river all filled with snow / She ...

He said: “Even as I listen back to ‘A-Punk’ and I think back to it, I can hear that music and I think ‘Oh that’s probably what I would have said too if I’d heard our first album’.

“A-Punk,” an infectiously catchy tune from the Vampire Weekend album, has been used in various movies, TV shows and video games. Films that have featured the song include Step Brothers (2008 ...

This segment, from Jan. 24, 2008, is part of our Vintage Cafe series, in which we revisit some of our best studio performances. Vampire Weekend emerged from a fertile New York indie-rock scene ...

Vampire Weekend is best known for their songs “A-Punk,” “Step,” and “Hannah Hunt.” They’ve released five studio records and earned two Grammy Awards throughout their career.

Not that Vampire Weekend should be put in the same bag as, say, Lupe Fiasco. Mainly, critics compare its album to Paul Simon’s 1986 icon of pop-African fusion, “Graceland” -- which isn’t ...

Vampire Weekend's newest album, 'Modern Vampires of the City,' breaks new stylistic ground, a huge leap for a one-time college band. The band is holding onto its indie roots while poised to swoop ...

Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig has recalled how he had real concerns of being a “one-hit wonder” during the early part of their career. Read More: Vampire Weekend – ‘Only God Was ...