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Do you expect to have an influence, or is this a totally uphill fight? I hope to have a small influence. I think people are ready. I'm not the only person who sees some madness in our behavior. And so I think people are looking for opportunities to do...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Shouldn't Give Christmas Gifts | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

There was a time when “African music” meant something other than “new indie-chic” and pale indie boys in cardigans and Sperry Topsiders violently clutching copies of “Graceland” like Bibles on Judgment Day. This was...

Author: By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Very Best | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

The album breaks most genre-categories. Its aim is the creation of a moving and gorgeous sound, and it succeeds gloriously. This is the “African” music all of the Vampire Weekends have been striving to create for years: unbridled, joyful, lush, and paradoxically cosmic.

Author: By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Very Best | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

Most who try to create an album like this fail for one simple reason: “African music” as we think of it is not necessarily the music of Africa, despite its superficially African qualities. This is joyful music of the world, well-removed from any and...

Author: By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Very Best | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

The event was joyful but also fiercely competitive. When the music stopped, students piled onto chairs in a struggle of survival of the fittest.

Author: By Kristen L. Cronon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Flash Dance in the Yard | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

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