Vampire Weekend Goes Unplugged

Written by Scott Bernstein on 01.12.2010 | Vampire Weekend

While I haven’t had a chance to listen to HT Faves Vampire Weekend’s new album, Contra, since returning from Jam Cruise, everyone either seems to love or hate the disc – which is about par for the course with this band. To help promote Contra, the group filmed an episode of MTV’s Unplugged back in July that has been airing on MTV2.

Vampire Weekend’s Unplugged performance features a number of new songs (Cousins, White Sky, Run) and a few classics (A-Punk, Oxford Comma, M79) from the first album. Here’s the indie rockers with Oxford Comma…

More Vampire Weekend on Unplugged Clips:

• A-Punk
• Cousins
• M79
• Run
• White Sky

Scott Bernstein

Scott Bernstein co-founded Hidden Track in October 2006 and was managing editor until taking over as EiC in January 2008. Scotty also writes for Relix Magazine and curates YEMblog.com.

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4 Responses to “Vampire Weekend Goes Unplugged”

1. Jeffrey Greenblatt says:

   Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 5:13 pm

   As the resisdent Vampire Weekend fluffer around these parts, I have to say I really dig the album a lot. A bit of the same, but different enough that they didn’t make the same album twice. Can’t wait to see them next week at Webster Hall and the Bowery.

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2. Cheap beer koozies says:

   Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 10:31 pm

   The video is so cool.
   His voice is so wonderful !

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3. Chris says:

   Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at 9:13 am

   The songs sound great acoustic, thanks for this. If your not sick of ‘Contra’ reviews this is worth checking out http://bit.ly/6sFRtm

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4. Roland says:

   Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 7:32 am

   I really hope this will be released as CD. A-punk acoustic sounds even better than the original,

   Roland from Holland

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