{"id":2444398,"date":"2019-05-20T08:03:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T14:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=837410"},"modified":"2019-05-20T08:03:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T14:03:48","slug":"vampire-weekend-take-joy-ride-through-desert-in-this-life-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/vampire-weekend-take-joy-ride-through-desert-in-this-life-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Vampire Weekend Take Joy Ride Through Desert in \u2018This Life\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-20-at-9.49.27-AM-1-copy.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/vampire-weekend\/\" id=\"auto-tag_vampire-weekend\" data-tag=\"vampire-weekend\">Vampire Weekend<\/a> hitch a ride with a desert dweller named Wade in the video for \u201cThis Life,\u201d which appears on the band\u2019s latest album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-vampire-weekend-father-of-the-bride-828746\/\"><em>Father of the Bride<\/em><\/a>. Directed my Emmett Malloy, the clip stars Kyle Field of the band Little Wings as Wade, an Uber-driver of sorts who picks up an array of passengers throughout the clip including Danielle Haim, Ariel Rechtshaid, Simi and Haze and Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">After all that wandering through the desert, the clip culminates with Wade\u2019s various passengers turning up at a Passover Seder hosted by Mark Ronson (other guests include Jonah Hill, Sophie and Despot). Fittingly, in the middle of the feast, Wade shows up, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Passover_Seder#Kos_shel_Eliyahu_ha-Navi_(cup_of_Elijah_the_Prophet);_Miriam's_cup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Elijah style<\/a>, to join the festivities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The \u201cThis Life\u201d video marks the the third <em>Father of the Bride<\/em> visual, following the breakfast-themed clip for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-vampire-weekends-breakfast-themed-video-for-harmony-hall-796697\/\">\u201cHarmony Hall\u201d<\/a> and the Jonah Hill-directed video for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/vampire-weekend-sunflower-video-807694\/\">\u201cSunflower,\u201d<\/a> which featured a cameo from Jerry Seinfeld.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Father of the Bride<\/em> arrived earlier this month, marking Vampire Weekend\u2019s fourth LP and first since 2013\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/modern-vampires-of-the-city-188186\/\"><em>Modern Vampires of the City<\/em><\/a>. The band will embark on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/vampire-weekend-north-american-father-of-the-bride-tour-786429\/\">North American tour<\/a> in support of the record June 5th at RBC Echo Beach in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/vampire-weekend-music-video-this-life-837410\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vampire Weekend hitch a ride with a desert dweller named Wade in the video for \u201cThis Life,\u201d which appears on the band\u2019s latest album, Father of the Bride. Directed my Emmett Malloy, the clip stars Kyle Field of the band Little Wings as Wade, an Uber-driver of sorts who picks up an array of passengers [&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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 11:55:15","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}