Music [Video] of the Moment - April 26, 2009

I stumbled across this video last night on YouTube and had to post it. It's a video of one of my favorite bands, Vampire Weekend, playing acoustic versions of The Kids Don't Stand a Chance and Oxford Comma while walking the streets of Paris. The video was posted on La Blogotheque, along with dozens of other bands performing unplugged versions of their songs. Just something light for a Sunday. Still pretty wavy though.



The original is pretty dope too.

Ow.

Music of the Moment - July 2, 2008

Vampire Weekend is a very unique, punk/indie-rock band from New York. Their sound isn't really reminiscent of anything that I know of but it's very catchy. I haven't had much time to listen to their entire self-titled debut, but the joint Oxford Comma was definitely the track that stood out to me. An oxford comma is another name for a serial comma which is the last comma used in a list of three or more things usually before the word and or or. [Ex. Larry, Moe, and Curly vs. Larry, Moe and Curly.] Many people don't use or even pay attention to oxford commas, and that's essentially what the song is about: people that nitpick over the smallest things. They even throw in a Lil Jon reference. All in all, it's great songwriting and the song definitely worth a listen. Check it out and determine the meaning for yourself.

The band also did a sick, single-shot video for Oxford Comma, check it out.