Vampire Weekend to livestream special solar eclipse show

nme.com:

Vampire Weekend will livestream a concert in Austin, Texas next month that is set to take place during a total solar eclipse.The band will play the Moody Amphitheater in the city on Monday, April 8, with the show expected to start at 12pm local time (5pm UK time), and run for approximately two and a half hours.At 1:36pm, there will be around two minutes of complete darkness as the moon passes directly between the Earth and the sun, with parts of North America projected to experience the rare event.A post shared by Vampire Weekend (@vampireweekend)The band will livestream the show via the streaming platform Veeps.

Tickets are free and can be claimed here.The show will take place just three days after the release of the band’s fifth album ‘Only God Was Above Us‘, and last week, they released the latest single ‘Classical’.That followed up the two previously released singles ‘Capricorn’ and ‘Gen-X Cops’.

The album is out on April 5 via Columbia and you can pre-order/pre-save it here.It is their first album since 2019’s ‘Father Of The Bride’.

In a four-star review, NME wrote: “Depending on your mood, there’ll be songs you’d happily lop off for a more streamlined listen, but by and large, all of these songs make the patchwork much more vibrant.