Obscure Sound — With a sound steeped in dreamy harmonies reminiscent of The Beach Boys, Grizzly Bear, and Vampire Weekend, Danke Shane is the very impressive solo project of Washington, D.C.’s Andrew Burke. The excellent “Cave In” sports a chorus that merges s... more info

DrownedInSound — “I never really thought, 'Oh yeah, gotta put out a solo project!'" more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Now tackling his solo career full on, former Vampire Weekend member Rostam will release his debut album later this year. He’s been teasing the release with new songs here and there, but the latest confirmation came with the new music video for “G... more info

Stereogum — XL Recordings label head Richard Russell's new project Everything Is Recorded is a focal point in this month's excellent New Yorker profile of the London-based label that's been responsible for the success of Adele, Vampire Weekend, the xx, and many... more info

Stereogum — It's been four years since the last Vampire Weekend album, and in that time, we've gotten solo projects from former producer Rostam, drummer Chris Tomson, and bassist Chris Baio, who's been releasing music under his last name for years and finally pu... more info

Sweeping The Nation — First things first, we realised we didn't get time to write a Recommends at the end of last week and then spent just as long putting the songs we wanted to write about on Twitter instead, so who's the real winner here? The Hayman Kupa Band a... more info

Consequence of Sound — It's still tentatively titled Mitsubishi Macchiato and "a lil more springtime" than the last LP. more info

Stereogum — We're all eagerly curious about a new Vampire Weekend album, doubly so because it'll be the first one without Rostam Batmanglij as a part of the band. Ezra Koenig just posted a short update on the progress of the new album in an Instagram post. H... more info

Stereogum — Hamilton Leithauser appeared on The Strombo Show in honor of his 2016 collaboration with Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij titled I Had A Dream That You Were Mine . Leithauser performed two tracks from the album ("In A Black Out" and "The Bride's ... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Dams Of The West is the solo project of Chris Tomson, best known as the drummer of Vampire Weekend. Keeping busy in-between the eventual recording and release of a new Vampire Weekend record, Tomson embarked on some of his own material that he creat... more info