<p>Vampire Weekend. </p>
<p>Billboard #1. 2 SNL appearances in as many years. All four Columbia grads.</p>
<p>Great article, cover story of Spin Magazine in February 2008:
Vampire</a> Weekend: The Graduates | Spin Magazine Online. </p>
<p>Good argument within for the immediacy of connection our Columbians have to all of the great resources of NYC and how it makes a difference. </p>
<p>The VW story is not a new one for Columbia grads (insert names of former Columbians like Lauryn Hill and Jake & Maggie Gyllenhaal). </p>
<p>And, if you don't know VW:
Vampire</a> Weekend - Giving Up The Gun</p>
<p>[Bwog</a> » This Band Vampire Weekend Went to Columbia](<a href=“http://bwog.net/2010/01/12/this-band-vampire-weekend-went-to-columbia]Bwog”>http://bwog.net/2010/01/12/this-band-vampire-weekend-went-to-columbia)</p>
<p>The worlds best known former Ruggles inhabitants, Vampire Weekend, released their new album Contra yesterday. The album has received positive reviews so far, including a shockingly high 8.6 from notoriously picky Pitchfork Media. The band was recently interviewed for a Wall Street Journal music blog, Speakeasy. The band talked about books and wore cardigans.</p>
<p>VW also discussed their temporary move to California, and about Columbias reputation. Said frontman Ezra Koenig: I feel like Columbia is a very different place than Princeton or Harvard, but to a lot of people writing about our band it might as well be George W. Bush at Yale in the 60s. So it doesnt always pay to be nuanced.</p>
<p>Koenig even held forth on on Murakamis Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: I felt like the central theme was identity. Uh huh
maybe he took Interpretation of Culture, too!</p>