TV EYE: Vampire Weekend Season Continues to Bloom on “Kimmel”

Ezra Koenig and company brought “Sunflower” to the Hollywood late-night circuit. Watch it here.
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TV EYE: Vampire Weekend Season Continues to Bloom on “Kimmel”

Ezra Koenig and company brought “Sunflower” to the Hollywood late-night circuit. Watch it here.

Words: Scott T. Sterling

photo by Carlo Cavaluzzi

May 10, 2019

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The Los Angeles Issue

With 232 pages and an expanded 12″ by 12″ format, our biggest print issue yet celebrates the people, places, music, and art of our hometown, including cover features on David Lynch, Nipsey Hussle, Syd, and Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records, plus Brian Wilson, Cuco, Ty Segall, Lord Huron, Remi Wolf, The Doors, the art of RISK, Taz, Estevan Oriol, Kii Arens, and Edward Colver, and so much more. 

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RELATED: Vampire Weekend’s “Father of the Bride,” reviewed 

The gang performed “Sunflower,” taken from the band’s much-ballyhooed new release, Father of the Bride. Rumors that the group is heading in a Grateful Dead–inspired “jam band” direction were reinforced by the nimble performance. Watch it below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSOaqXiauR8

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