Watch Vampire Weekend on 'The Daily Show' and Make a 30-Minute Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa Jam with Goose
Only God was above us Out now via Columbia. They also recently covered the Grateful Dead
April 12, 2024
Vampire Weekend released a new album, Only God was above us, last week via Columbia. This week, they were invited to The daily show, where they performed the album's “Mary Boone” and were interviewed. They also sat in with jam band Goose at The Capitol Theater in Port Chester, New York, where they performed the album's “Gen-X Cops” and did an extended 30-minute plus jam of “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa,” by the band. self-titled debut album. And they also covered the Grateful Dead's “Peggy-O.” They were assisted by Amber Coffman and violinist Ray Suen and were for SiriusXMU. See them all below.
Also, read our 9/10 rave review of the album here.
Previously, the band shared their first two singles: “Capricorn” and “Gen-X Cops.” Both songs made our list of songs of the week. They then shared his third single, “Classical,” via a music video. “Classical” also landed on our song of the week list.
The fourth single was “Mary Boone”. The song's namesake, Mary Boone, is an influential art collector in New York, dubbed by New York Magazine, in a 1982 cover of her, “The New Queen of the Art Scene.” In 2019, he was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for tax fraud. “Mary Boone” was #1 on our Songs of the Week list.
The Vampire Weekend tour will feature various supporting acts, depending on the date, including LA LOM, The English Beat, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Mike Gordon, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Ra Ra Riot, Princess with Maya Rudolph and Gretchen Lieberum, Cults, a DJ Set by Mark Ronson, The Turnstiles (a Billy Joel tribute band) and The Brothers Macklovitch. In select cities they do afternoon shows on Saturday night, followed by a matinee show the following day. See the tour poster below for information on which artist is opening where.
Vampire Weekend previously shared a trailer for the album, as well as its tracklist and cover art.
Only God was above us is the band's fifth album, their first new album in five years, and its follow-up Father of the Bride. Father of the Bride was our album of the Week, debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart with the biggest first-week sales of any rock album in 2019, and you can stream it here. It was also nominated for album of the year at the Grammys.
Vampire Weekend is Ezra Koenig, Chris Baio and Chris Thomson. Koenig wrote most of the album's lyrics in 2019 and 2020, and the band has been refining the album since then, recording in various cities around the world, including New York, Los Angeles, London and Tokyo. Koenig produced the album with longtime collaborator Ariel Rechtshaid and it was mixed by Dave Fridmann and mastered by Emily Lazar.
A press release promises that the album is “immediate yet complex, showing the band at their most intense as well as their most beautiful and melodic.”
The album cover also inspired its title. It's a photo taken in 1988 by Steven Siegel in a metro cemetery in New Jersey. Pictured is a man sitting on an overturned subway car, reading the May 1, 1988 edition The New York Daily News. The newspaper's cover story describes a plane crash on Aloha Airlines Flight 243, when an explosion tore the roof off. The headline of the paper quotes a survivor saying, “Only God was above us,” which is now the title of the new album.
We were the first nationally distributed print magazine to interview Vampire Weekend, way back in 2007, and you can revisit that article here.
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