From the Internet to Vampire Weekend: can a band survive the splinter project?

When the band have a break and its individual members go solo - things will never be the same againOdd Future are like the rap equivalent of an Amway pyramid scheme. Having started as a branding umbrella for its many members’ solo talents, it has reached the stage where the multiple groups it spawned have all started their own potentially lucrative sub-pyramids.Case in point: the Internet, who began as Odd Future’s Syd tha Kyd and Matt Martians, but enlisted friends to make a band....

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