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Vampire Weekend

Presented by Ryman Auditorium at Ryman Auditorium

April 5, 2010

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The Messina Group/AEG Live presents Vampire Weekend in their Ryman Auditorium debut!

Vampire Weekend's secod album, Contra, due to be released January 12, 2010, explodes any reductive notions of what constitutes Vampire Weekend's sound and aesthetic. The varied influences here include third-wave ska, the Hallelujah Chicken Run Band, Brazilian baile funk, Congolese thumb pianos, Repo Man, Sublime's 40 Oz. to Freedom, reggaeton, bachata, Bollywood, Philip Roth, Beethoven, NYC 1983, dancehall and the Beastie Boys' second album, Paul's Boutique.

All of these influences are incorporated with subtlety and sophistication, woven together into a seamless fabric of references that, heard in full, resembles nothing so much as itself. Vampire Weekend's music and lyrics serve to both construct and deconstruct a world around them. Like the word "contra" itself, the songs are layered with meaning and invite interpretation. With this album, Vampire Weekend have staked out an alien territory literate, crackling, alive that's unmistakably their own.

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    116 Fifth Avenue North
    Nashville, TN 37219

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    April 5, 2010

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    Monday 7:30pm

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