{"id":2448592,"date":"2019-09-12T03:10:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T09:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=883347"},"modified":"2019-09-12T03:10:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T09:10:25","slug":"see-vampire-weekends-upbeat-performance-of-sympathy-on-colbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/see-vampire-weekends-upbeat-performance-of-sympathy-on-colbert\/","title":{"rendered":"See Vampire Weekend\u2019s Upbeat Performance of \u2018Sympathy\u2019 on \u2018Colbert\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-12-at-10.05.49-AM.png\" 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 currently on the road as part of their \u201cFather of the Bride Tour\u201d and the band stopped by <em>The Late Show<\/em> to perform one of their new songs for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/stephen-colbert\/\" id=\"auto-tag_stephen-colbert\" data-tag=\"stephen-colbert\">Stephen Colbert<\/a>\u2019s audience. The band selected \u201cSympathy,\u201d a propulsive and eclectic number off their recent album <em>Father of the Bride<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In the clip, the band members infuse the song with a funk-laden feel, using dual drummers to create the infectious beat and bringing in layers of acoustic and electric guitar. Frontman Ezra Koenig keeps the vocals light as he sings, \u201cNow we\u2019ve got that sympathy\/ What I\u2019m to you\/ You are to me\/ Let\u2019s go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vampire Weekend is set to continue their tour later this month on the West Coast, with stops in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Denver. The band will also perform at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on October 2nd and will finish off the trek with two nights at Red Rocks Amphitheatre October 8th and 9th. Tickets are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livenation.com\/artists\/43783\/vampire-weekend\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">on sale<\/a> now (although several shows are already sold out). The band released <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> back in April, their first new album in six years, which followed 2013\u2019s acclaimed album <em>Modern Vampires of the City<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/vampire-weekend-sympathy-colbert-883347\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vampire Weekend are currently on the road as part of their \u201cFather of the Bride Tour\u201d and the band stopped by The Late Show to perform one of their new songs for Stephen Colbert\u2019s audience. The band selected \u201cSympathy,\u201d a propulsive and eclectic number off their recent album Father of the Bride. In the clip, [&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-2448592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 16:25:07","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\/2448592","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=2448592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}