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p2013
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1 sound disc (43 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
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Modern Vampires of the City is Vampire Weekend's third album. The album is a bustling world of voices and visions. Modern Vampires of the City has a grandeur and romanticism evocative of the city where it was conceived.
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"Everything you’ve heard about vampires is a lie. They can’t fly. No murders allowed (the community hates that). And turning into a bat? Completely ridiculous. In fact, vampire life is really just a lot of blood bags and night jobs. For Louise Chao, it’s also lonely, since she swore off family ages ago. At least she’s gone to decades of punk rock shows. And if she can join a band of her own (while keeping her…situation under wraps), maybe...
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The Big Book of Rock & Roll Names tells the behind-the-scenes stories of how the world's most popular and influential rock and pop acts got their names. By turns fascinating, funny, and bizarre, the pages offer insight into the peculiar choices and idiosyncratic psychologies of hundreds of top musicians from the 1960s to the present. Originally published more than two decades ago to great success, it's been out of print for years and has now been...
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[2018]
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1 videodisc (approximately 144 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Rock out with Vampirina, Poppy, and Bridget as they take the stage and start their very own band: the Ghoul Girls! Cheer them on as they travel to Transylvania for their first-ever "Scream Factor Talent Competition". Howl with laughter when a full moon transforms much more than just Wolfie, and watch Vee make her show-stopping human ballet debut! Vamped up with awesome songs, bonus music videos and six fun-filled episodes.
11) Other Music
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2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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OTHER MUSIC was an influential and uncompromising New York City record store that was vital to the city’s early 2000s indie music scene. But when the store is forced to close its doors due to rent increases, the homogenization of urban culture, and the shift from CDs to downloadable and streaming music, a cultural landmark is lost. Through vibrant storytelling, the documentary captures the record store’s vital role in the musical and cultural...
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[2012]
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A smart, subversive comedy that skips through 35 years in the life of Max Youngblood, his best (and only) friend Sal, and the woman they both adore. As they stumble in and out of hilariously misguided relationships-strung together with animated vignettes by Bob Sabiston and an original score by Vampire Weekend's Chris Baio-Max never ages, holding on to a mysterious briefcase that may or may not contain the secret to life.
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Includes 17 songs from the soundtrack to the mega-hit movie: "Eclipse (All Yours)" by Metric * "Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)" by Muse * "Ours" by The Bravery * "My Love" by Sia * "Atlas" by Fanfarlo * "Chop and Change" by The Black Keys * "Jonathan Low" by Vampire Weekend * "Life on Earth" by Band of Horses * and more, plus "Jacob's Theme" from the score by Howard Shore. Also contains fabulous color photos of Bella, Edward and Jacob!
14) Other Music
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Other Music was an influential New York City record store that was vital to the city's early 2000s scene. But when the store is forced to close its doors, a cultural landmark is lost. The film captures the store's vital role and highlights artists including Vampire Weekend, Animal Collective, Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sharon Van Etten, Yo La Tengo and TV On The Radio.
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[2017]
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xvii, 621 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Meet Me in the Bathroom charts the transformation of the New York music scene in the first decade of the 2000s, the bands behind it—including The Strokes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem, Interpol, and Vampire Weekend-- and the cultural forces that shaped it, from the Internet to a booming real estate market that forced artists out of the Lower East Side to Williamsburg. Drawing on 200 original interviews with James Murphy, Julian Casablancas,...
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2012
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1 sound disc : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
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Lovely five-tracker on Warp from multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Daniel Rossen, a member of both Grizzly Bear and Department of Eagles. 'Up On High', 'Silent Song', 'Golden Miles' 'Return To Form' are classy, adult pop songs nailed just right - their plangent melodies and quirky chamber arrangements recalling not only Grizzly Bear but also Vampire Weekend and Lambchop at their most expansive, with a hint of the psychedelic whimsy of Nick Nicely...
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The ultimate listening party guide, Booze and Vinyl shows you how to set the mood for 70 great records from the 1950s through the 2000s.
From modern craft cocktails to old standbys, prepare to shake, stir, and just plain pour your way through some of the best wax ever pressed. Wickedly designed and featuring photography throughout, Booze & Vinyl is organized by mood, from Rock to Chill, Dance, and Seduce. Each entry has liner notes that underscore...
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Joining the ranks of the classics Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and Can't Stop Won't Stop, an intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of the New York rock scene, led by a group of iconoclastic rock bands. In the second half of the twentieth-century New York was the source of new sounds, including the Greenwich Village folk scene, punk and new wave, and hip-hop. But as the end of the...
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"[A] striking debut. . . funny, heartbreaking, and real."––SAM LANSKY, author of Broken People
Prep meets The Secret History in this searing debut novel about a tragic scandal at an American prep school, told in the form of a literary investigation through a distinctly millennial lens
When Foster Dade arrives at Kennedy, an elite boarding school in New Jersey, the year is 2008. Barack Obama begins his first term as president;...






