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Vampire Weekend
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by Melissa Maerz
If you could run world music through Google Translator, it might come out sounding like Vampire Weekend. On their self-titled debut, these Columbia grads fused West African guitar, calypso, Congolese soukous and U.S. indie-rock for music as all-American as Taco Bell’s Mexican pizza. It was almost as popular, too: released at a time when globalism was riding the hipster zeitgeist — just as Urban Outfitters was selling out of its Palestinian kefiyah scarves and local music scenes were huddling under the one-world umbrella of MySpace and ...
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