Watch Vampire Weekend cover Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen at New Orleans Jazz Festival
nme.comVampire Weekend covered Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen during their appearance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival last night (April 27) – check out footage below.
Their set included first-time-ever performances of Dylan deep cut ‘When He Returns’, first released on 1979’s ‘Slow Train Coming’, as well as The Boss’ 1980 hit ‘Hungry Heart’.
It was the band’s first show without bassist Chris Baio since 2006, after he was laid low with an illness. “Folks, I’m laid out in bed with the flu today,” he wrote on Instagram, “and will be missing a vw show for the first time since fall of 2006.” Watch Vampire Weekend’s one-off covers here: The band released their fifth studio album ‘Only God Was Above Us’ earlier this month.
In a four-star review, NME wrote: “There’s a ring of distinctly millennial buoyancy in their early records, an attitude that has crashed and burned in the years since.
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