Event Details
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SOLD OUT! Sonic 102.9 presents
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Vampire Weekend
- With: Guests
- Date: Sunday March 14, 2010
- Door Time: 7:00 PM
- Show Time: 8:00 PM
- Venue: Edmonton Event Centre
- City: Edmonton, AB
- Tickets (presale): $27.50
- Buy Tickets Now
- Licensed: No
Tickets $27.50 + S/C, on sale FRIDAY JANUARY 8 at 10 AM
at UNIONEVENTS.COM, all Ticketmaster locations, charge-by-phone 780-451-8000,
online at ticketmaster.ca, Listen and Blackbyrd Myoozik
Declared as the Years Best New Band in 2008 by Spin Magazine, VAMPIRE WEEKEND has skyrocked to fame in the last two years, setting the world abuzz with their signature indie rock/afrobeat sound. Their self-titled debut album recently earned a spot on Rolling Stones list of Best Albums of the Decade, and the anticipation is high for their second full-length release, Contra, due January 12th on XL Recordings.
Recorded in their native New York City as well as Mexico City (blocks away from Frida Kahlos house), Contra explodes any reductive notions of what constitutes VAMPIRE WEEKENDs sound and aesthetic. The varied influences here include third-wave ska, the Hallelujah Chicken Run Band, Brazilian baile funk, Congolese thumb pianos, Repo Man, Sublime’s 40 Oz. to Freedom, reggaeton, bachata, Bollywood, Philip Roth, Beethoven, NYC 1983, dancehall, and the Beastie Boys’ second album, Paul’s Boutique.
All of these influences are incorporated with subtlety and sophistication, woven together into a seamless fabric of references that, heard in full, resembles nothing so much as itself. VAMPIRE WEEKENDs music and lyrics serve to both construct and deconstruct a world around them. Like the word “contra” itself, the songs are layered with meaning and invite interpretation. With this album, VAMPIRE WEEKEND have staked out an alien territory – literate, crackling, alive and unmistakably their own.
