{"id":973421,"date":"2019-11-10T07:45:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T14:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=910312"},"modified":"2019-11-10T07:45:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T14:45:47","slug":"watch-vampire-weekend-showcase-sunflower-on-austin-city-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/watch-vampire-weekend-showcase-sunflower-on-austin-city-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Vampire Weekend Showcase \u2018Sunflower\u2019 on \u2018Austin City Limits\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vampire Weekend<\/a> were the focus of an hour-long episode of Austin City Limits<\/a> <\/em>that aired Saturday; watch the entire 10-song performance here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The band, which released its fourth studio album Father of the Bride<\/em> in May, taped the career-spanning performance at Austin\u2019s Moody Theatre in August, a gig that featured tracks from the band\u2019s self-titled 2008 debut as well as their latest LP, including a lengthy rendition of Father of the Bride<\/em>\u2018s \u201cSunflower.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ahead of the episode\u2019s premiere, Vampire Weekend shared an exclusive video<\/a> of their performance of the Father of the Bride<\/em> track \u201cHarmony Hall\u201d with Rolling Stone.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s never been a better time to appreciate Vampire Weekend, given the world we live in today,\u201d ACL<\/em> executive producer Terry Lickona said in a statement. \u201cI\u2019ve always been a fan of Ezra Koenig\u2019s voice and his new songs are more personal and inward-looking than ever. Vampire Weekend has remained tried-and-true \u2013 popular without ever becoming pop!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig recently discussed finding joy within the project again with Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>. \u201cToward the end of Modern Vampires<\/em>, Vampire Weekend definitely needed a reboot,\u201d he said. \u201cI think with a lot of artists, your career is a really be-careful-what-you-wish-for scenario. You want to do music full-time. Unless you have a trust fund, the idea of doing music full-time seems like this distant thing. I graduated from college and I was a teacher, and I liked things about it, but I would get really panicked when I would think that I\u2019d never be able to do music full-time. And then, a mere five, six years later, I wasn\u2019t sure I wanted to do music full-time either, because I\u2019d been burned out on the road. Finding that balance is tricky, and maybe some people find it to be a corny word, but joy is an important thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

This fall, Vampire Weekend revealed they would be embarking on a 2020 tour<\/a>, which will kick off May 29th at the Maine Savings Pavilion in Westbrook, Maine for a 19 date-run before wrapping October 7th in Birmingham, Alabama.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vampire Weekend were the focus of an hour-long episode of Austin City Limits that aired Saturday; watch the entire 10-song performance here. The band, which released its fourth studio album Father of the Bride in May, taped the career-spanning performance at Austin\u2019s Moody Theatre in August, a gig that featured tracks from the band\u2019s self-titled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 07:59:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}