We’ve been hiding from the Vampire Weekend hype debate. However, today we ended up reading the Village Voice’s dualing blog reviews of the album and we’ve gotta say we really liked Mike Powell’s comparison of the Vampires to Walt Stillman (writer/director of “Metropolitan”, “Barcelona” and “The Last Days of Disco” - please see the first [...]

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The episode you might have missed last night was quite lovingly put together (for once) - watch it on MTV.com if you’re not feeling the whole 3AM thing. We included a bonus playlist for you this week of even more 80s college rock with all the usual suspects and a few who aren’t under suspicion [...]

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More of Vampire Weekend’s favorite videos - as you know Hammer & Tongs directed the clip for “A-Punk” and the “Coffee & TV” clip discussed here.

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Who doesn’t love Michel Gondry? Add Vampire Weekend to the list of fans. Plus we all heard those White Stripes are pretty good and stuff.

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Straight out of MTV’s cafeteria (seriously, in case you were wondering this interview footage was shot on in the rec room off our cafeteria) we’ve got clips of Vampire Weekend talking about some of their favorite videos. The level of seriousness is questionable., especially when Will Smith comes up in reference to The Clash.
We’ll bring [...]

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