Ann Kirsten Kennis, the model who sued Vampire Weekend for using her image on the cover of their second album, Contra, has settled her suit against the band and their label, XL. Ms. Kennis claims photographer Tod Brody forged the model-release form, denying her the money to which she was entitled, and Vampire Read More
James Murphy was standing with a bottle of Champagne, two flutes dangling between his fingers and a full glass in his other hand. He swerved. It was nearly 4 in the morning. He had just played the final show fronting LCD Soundsystem, and the band and friends had taken over the gold-coral vestibules of the Read More
Those squawking taxi cab televisions are now delivering location and time-based ads, and everyone's going gangbusters. From The New York Times:
VeriFone Media Solutions, which handles advertising sales for about 12,000 yellow cabs - nearly the entire fleet - said its revenue was up 60 percent in the past year. In November, the company had Read More
The Bowery is bigger than New York. Marking the indomitable concert promoter’s first venture outside N.Y.C., Bowery Presents will soon host a steady stream of rock, pop and blues acts at Montclair, N.J.’s Wellmont Theatre—an 86-year-old movie palace recently refurbished by the Rosen Group. And guess who scored the opening night honors ... It's Hanson! Read More
You can catch the besweatered, much-buzzed about indie pop band Vampire Weekend, untouchable soul strutter Sharon Jones and, um, Junot Diaz at Central Park SummerStage this year. The City Parks Foundation announced their line-up and it's going to be a doozy, with Brooklyn's Santogold and Diplo getting the crowd rowdy and Richard Price living the Read More
Vampire Weekend’s Chris Tomson was the victim of a hit and run last night in London, according to reports from Pitchfork and NME.com. Just after midnight, local time, the unfortunate drummer was struck by a car that just kept driving.An ambulance rushed Mr. Tomson to Royal London Hospital, where doctors kept him overnight for Read More
Much has already been written about the shape-shifting youngsters who met and formed a band at Columbia University, which they called Vampire Weekend. Their first album, in stores today, has that aura of inevitable popularity about it. But they're also good. (They're the best band to emerge from the Upper West Side since the Plastic Read More
