Twilight, True Blood and...Vampire Weekend?

Move over Edward, here comes a new contender that may be more talented, doesn't outwardly sparkle (insides are a different story), and is, maybe, handsomer than you. His name is Ezra Koenig, and he and his aptly named Electric-Afro-Pop band, Vampire Weekend, rock. Their newest, sophomore album, Contra, blew up the college charts, but somehow haven't hit the radios yet, making them a unknown secret, which is great for me, because I can claim I found them before they were BIG big.


Now, wanna hear something ironic? A Vampire Weekend track has been included on the Twilight Saga: Eclipse CD, which is either in stores now or will be on Tuesday. If anyone out there is a music listener/book reader/avid movie watcher, you know that the Twilight movies aren't very good (they kinda suck), but the music always rocks. First, it was 'Flightless Bird, American Mouth' by Iron & Wine that caught my attention. And even though I don't like many I&W songs, I love this one. On New Moon, it was that Death Cab For Cutie song, 'Meet Me On The Equinox', although I also liked The Killers' song, as well as another song that I don't know the name of. All of the albums have Muse on them, a request of the author.


Anyways, I digress. What I meant to blog about was the fact that a bad movie deserves good music, and I am very happy that the people who make up the albums for the Twilight movies have recognized that Vampire Weekend is very, very vampire worthy.

-Rai

P.S- Did you know over 500 artists submitted songs for the new album, Twilight movie albums make millions of dollars, and VPW took a song Ezra wrote back in high school and revamped it (pun not intended) for the movie.