{"id":793825,"date":"2019-03-13T13:16:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T19:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=807694"},"modified":"2019-03-13T13:16:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T19:16:39","slug":"vampire-weekends-sunflower-video-is-a-gourmet-tour-of-the-upper-west-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/vampire-weekends-sunflower-video-is-a-gourmet-tour-of-the-upper-west-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Vampire Weekend\u2019s \u2018Sunflower\u2019 Video Is a Gourmet Tour of the Upper West Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/vampire-weekend-sunflower-video.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/vampire-weekend\/\" id=\"auto-tag_vampire-weekend\" data-tag=\"vampire-weekend\">Vampire Weekend<\/a> are a New York band. They famously formed while studying at Columbia University, they named one of the best songs on their 2008 debut after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OCuYrDYzc6c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">a crosstown bus line<\/a> and their lyrics are filled with references to life in and around Manhattan. Though Ezra Koenig relocated to Los Angeles some time ago, the new Vampire Weekend video for \u201cSunflower\u201d suggests he left his heart on the Upper West Side.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, directed by Jonah Hill, Koenig and guitarist Steve Lacy visit two of Manhattan\u2019s most hallowed temples of Ashkenazi Jewish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/food\/\" id=\"auto-tag_food\" data-tag=\"food\">food<\/a>, located blocks away from each other in the West Eighties. One minute Koenig is working behind the iconic smoked fish counter at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zabars.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Zabar\u2019s<\/a>, the next he\u2019s stopping by sturgeon king <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barneygreengrass.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Barney Greengrass<\/a>\u2018 place for brunch. At one point there\u2019s a cameo from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jerry-seinfeld\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jerry-seinfeld\" data-tag=\"jerry-seinfeld\">Jerry Seinfeld<\/a>, who I\u2019m sure knows his way around a platter of nova. Early-Eighties NYC hip-hop O.G. Fab 5 Freddy is in there, too. It\u2019s unclear what any of this has to do with the song \u201cSunflower\u201d \u2014 a light, catchy romp featuring some sweet riffs from Lacy, as well as Koenig\u2019s spirited efforts to shoobie-doo-wop right along with those riffs \u2014 but it looks delicious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSunflower\u201d will appear on Vampire Weekend\u2019s fourth album, <em>Father of the Bride<\/em>, due out on May 3rd. The band will embark on a major summer tour after that, leading up to some of their biggest shows ever, including headlining spots at New York\u2019s Madison Square Garden on September 6th and Denver\u2019s Red Rocks on October 8th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/vampire-weekend-sunflower-video-807694\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vampire Weekend are a New York band. They famously formed while studying at Columbia University, they named one of the best songs on their 2008 debut after a crosstown bus line and their lyrics are filled with references to life in and around Manhattan. Though Ezra Koenig relocated to Los Angeles some time ago, the [&hellip;]<\/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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-793825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 10:18:41","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}