Today in viral videos: The First Baller goes 2-for-22 at the White House Easter Egg Roll, Vampire Weekend meets Steve Buscemi, an epic sax-off, and a bulldog who is guaranteed to make your Monday.
After a performance at SXSW, the preppy, Afropop influenced band has released two new studio tracks off their upcoming album, Modern Vampires in the City, and they're getting good early buzz.
Vampire Weekend — the band of preppy clothing and Afro-Pop — made people turn to old media so they could release their album title in a positively viral way: the New York Times classifieds.
Brooklyn art student Thomas Calabrese was just trying to do his homework, but music bloggers desperate for a scoop were quick to believe that his faux Vampire Weekend album cover was the real deal.
Don't look now, and don't blame the bad karaoke, but Lena Dunham really cannot do wrong: According to recent numbers online and off, HBO's Girls has become a kingmaker to just-under-the-radar musicians, sending their record sales abuzz
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