If you’ve managed to catch Vampire Weekend on their current tour or any of last year’s warm-up shows, you’ll know that the jam-band aesthetic that influenced the sound of Father Of The Bride has also found its way into their live show. Ezra Koenig and crew’s live versions have gotten longer and generally more noodlier. Fortunately, the band doesn’t take these musical digressions too seriously, as jokingly acknowledged on their tie-dyed “8 Minute Cape Cod” sorta-fake merch. The latest version of Vampire Weekend’s jam-band-lite stylings comes in the form of the band dropping the Parks and Recreation theme song right into the middle of “M79”.
This comes from Friday’s show in Indianapolis, which is of course in the same state as Parks and Recreation’s fictional Pawnee, Indiana. Parks and Rec star Rashida Jones is Ezra Koenig’s longtime partner, and the two have a child together. Apparently the synergy was just too good to pass up. It works pretty well, and it’s not hard to imagine Leslie Knope awkwardly rocking out to it.
[via Consequence of Sound]
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concentrated evil, like that rock in the microwave at the end of time bandits.
Sure this get coverage but when my band “Frankensteins’ Hump Day” covered the 30 Rock theme no one cared!!!
It’s because you didn’t name your band Frankenstein’s Monster Hump Day.(adjusts glasses)
I did!
Sir, this is a Guitar Center.
There is a universe in which Vampire Weekend opened for Land Ho! during that band’s later tours.
Sorry, this is the only valid cover. Wee now kong bantha poodoo.
If it’s not MouseRat who gives a shit?
Is this the whitest thing that ever happened? Hard to say, but it’s 100% in the running
why?
5,000 Candles in the Wind would have brought down the house especially if the got Ginuine and Letters to Cleo.
Anyone who uses that Garcia style envelope filter on guitar should be shot.
Shit *frantically hiding my Q-tron and Auto-Wah*. Nothing to see here…..
Imma find and then garrote you with a bass string.
“Alexa, show me the whitest thing imaginable”
Unbearably White
If you were looking for a band that absolutely does not need two drum sets on stage, look no further!