Vampire Weekend is #1, See Them at Barnes & Noble Union Square Tonight

Vampire Weekend w/ Kwame Das at B&N USQ (01/21/10) Let’s hear it for blogs, cable-knit sweaters and Morningside Heights: Vampire Weekend, the band of Columbia University graduates that began its rise to indie-rock fame long before it had released any recordings, has reached No. 1 on the Billboard album chart with its second album, “Contra”…

Upstairs at The Square with Joseph O’Neill and Aimee Mann

This month Aimee Mann will share the stage “Upstairs at The Square” with Irish author Joseph O’Neill on July 31, 2008. The Barnes and Noble gig will be in between her two “proper” shows at the Highline Ballroom on July 30 and The Music Hall of Williamsburg on August 1 (buy tickets). Aimee is currently…