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Vampire Weekend Celebrate Eclipse With Austin Gig Featuring Cameos From Phoenix, Chromeo Singers

Vampire Weekend celebrated Monday's (April 8) eclipse with an Austin, Texas daytime gig featuring cameos from the singers of Phoenix and Chromeo.

Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend performs on Day 1 of MoPop Festival 2019 at West Riverfront Park on July 27, 2019 in Detroit. The gig — which took place on singer Ezra Koenig’s 40th birthday in front of a backdrop with an image of the phases of the eclipse — found the band opening with the album’s first track, “Ice Cream Piano,” followed by the live debuts of new songs “Classical,” “Connect,” “Gen-X Cops,” “Capricorn,” “Diane Young” and “Hope.” The set also included some of the band’s most beloved songs as well, including “Unbelievers,” “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa,” “Harmony Hall,” “Oxford Comma” and “A-Punk,” ending with a nearly 15-minute jam on “Cocaine Cowboys” that folded in bits of their 2019 tune “Married in a Gold Rush,” as well as Larry Gatlin’s “All the Gold in California,” Gram Parsons’ “Sin City” and the Grateful Dead’s “Cumberland Blues.”

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