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Vampire Weekend Sinks Teeth Into a Daytime Show — or Is It Nighttime? — Celebrating the Eclipse in Austin: Concert Review

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Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Vampire Weekend’s matinee concert Monday in Austin was the ultimate ADHD-friendly show.

Did you want to watch the band, in its first show back after a year-and-a-half break from touring, and a much longer absence in the States?

That was an event unto itself, and a good enough reason for an easy sellout of the 5,000-capacity Moody Amphitheater. Or did you want to spend much of the set looking in the opposite direction and gazing skyward?

This would normally be breach of concert etiquette, or a reason to break out the Narcan nasal spray. But with an eclipse gradually taking place in the southeastern sky, and signature Vampire Weekend sunglasses provided on the way in, there had never been a better time to turn your back on Ezra Koenig.

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