Dust off those boat shoes, because Vampire Weekend is coming to town.<\/p>\n
The perennial indie darlings will headline The Sylvee on June 11<\/a>, it was announced this morning. This will be the band\u2019s first visit to Madison since a sold-out High Noon Saloon show on April 4, 2008.<\/p>\n Formed by four Columbia University students in 2006, Vampire Weekend became a seeming overnight success after the 2008 release of their self-titled album, which included Afro-tinged mixtape staples like \u201cA-Punk<\/a>\u201d and \u201cCape Cod Kwassa Kwassa<\/a>.\u201d The quartet released two more critically-acclaimed albums, Contra <\/em>and Modern Vampires of the City<\/em>, before going on hiatus in 2014.<\/p>\n Since then, longtime multi-instrumentalist Rostam Batmanglij amicably parted ways<\/a> with the group and released a solo album, Half-Light<\/em>. Meanwhile, Ezra Koenig has become one of the most peculiar frontmen in indie rock. During his downtime from VW, he created an anime for Netflix titled Neo Yokio<\/em>. (It stars Jaden Smith as a demon-slaying lothario, and it is 100% real<\/a>.) Koenig was also nominated for a Grammy for co-writing a Beyonc\u00e9 song, having delivered his revisions via tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n But the hiatus ends this year, with Vampire Weekend announcing a string of tour dates supporting their first new album in six years. Titled Father of the Bride<\/em>, it\u2019s slated for release this spring, exact date TBA. There will be \u201cthree 2-song drops every month until the record is out,\u201d Koenig says<\/a>.<\/p>\n While you wait for tickets to go sale \u2014 next Friday, Feb. 8 at noon \u2014 check out \u201cHarmony Hall\u201d and \u201c2021\u201d below.<\/p>\n