See Vampire Weekend Before The Douchey Hipster You Met At The Bar Starts Buying Their Shit!

Yeah, it was all kind of going downhill once MTV got a hold of them, but for the better aspect of this whole thing, Vampire Weekend is still, by definition (mostly), an indie band. Of course, they are on the radio, but I think Indie 103.1 kind of makes it okay.

If they aren't just the cutest little aspiring English professors!

So let's say you're a die-hard VW fan. You stuck by them when "A-Punk" was on MTV and they appeared on SNL, and were even brave and loyal enough to defend them when the haters started their shit talking post their appearance on Jimmy Kimmel...with that band or whatever. You deserve to have complete rights to the band whose nurturing you personally had a hand in. YOU bought the album (back when it was still a preorder on Amazon, too!), commented on all the VW articles, made sure to only reveal your little Brooklyn gems to a select amount of people (whom you knew would really care about Vampire Weekend), and even turned a deaf ear (and blind eye) to their little stint of self-pimping. And you'll be damned if you attend their show and attempt to mosh during "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" amidst a gaggle of hormonally confused preteen hoes and American Apparel-styled hipster douches that would rather sip their Pabst and appear chill behind their Ray Bans than enjoy the music!

Well there's hope, and it doesn't come in the form of a support group. Vampire Weekend is coming to Atlanta, and since the masses (87%) of us aren't douche-holes that care more about status than happiness, it can almost be assured that the aforementioned scenario shan't occur.

In retrospect, this was a lot to write about a Vampire Weekend performance, but a true fan will appreciate. Trust.

Vampire Weekend at the Variety Playhouse on June 11 at 8:30 pm. Tickets can be bought here, or at the box office in front of the Playhouse.

vampire weekend - "cape cod kwassa kwassa"
vampire weekend - "oxford comma"

Violet stars happy hunting!

Your electric bird,
Erika

Homeless Soccer

I am MOST DEFINITELY going to update tomorrow after National Record Store Day, but in the meantime, tide your sad selves over with this AWEsome video:



From superdeluxe.com, one of the sponsors of Record Store Day! Whoohoo!

Your electric bird,
Erika

While You Were Sleeping...

I bought WHY?'s Alopecia from Criminal on Saturday. It's amazing, like moody, dark, and bleak. WHY? is really the hipster's answer to emo - I take that back actually. WHY? is the hipster's answer to Cake. With a little bit of Atmosphere. And Weezer. Just not...emo. Even still, the album is really good and cheap, since it only costs 9.99.

Speaking of music, and Atlanta, we're less than two weeks away from National Record Store Day! Yes, it means you should totally squeal with glee like a little schoolgirl. It's totally called for in this instance. Now about that time you found a Diane Von Furstenburg top for half off...But the lineup of bands playing live is amazing (I still cannot believe NRSD is fur-reee!) and it includes: Judi Chicago, Noot D' Noot, the Coathangers, Anna Kramer and the Lost Cause, and Manchester Orchestra, among many others. It's gonna be RAD. The sidewalk sale means reguluarly priced CDs are going for about a dollar and I think they said 9 dollars for a set of 4 is the most money you'll pay. I heard there was going to be a benefit CD made up to raise funds for the dudes and dudettes living over in Cabbagetown since their shit got like vaped in the stormnado...but I'm not sure.

It's still worth looking forward to. Free pizza too, BTW.

And about looking forward, for the few people on earth that read this blog, I'm going on a little vacay to LA to look at colleges with my mother (fun.) so I won't be here for about a week. Not like you read this or anything, but if you care, yeah, that's where I'll be. You'll have to get your interesting info from others...who? I just don't know.

I just don't know. PS Charleton Heston passed away, K?

Your electric bird,
Erika