Vampire Weekend Cowl Phoenix, TV on the Radio, Extra: Watch

Vampire Weekend headlined Pasadena competition Simply Like Heaven final evening, and together with delivering their very own songs, they devoted a portion of their set to present a “salute to indie.”

The band have lately been taking crowd requests for snippets of covers. This time, they handpicked the teams and songs they determined to carry out temporary covers of throughout their set. They began with Phoenix, who performed the fest final yr, and delivered their track “Lisztomania.”

“Now a buddy of mine mentioned that Tame Impala’s not an indie band. He mentioned they have been psychedelic rock,” Ezra Koenig mentioned earlier than introducing the subsequent track. “Effectively, if my buddy is appropriate, and I’m unsure he’s, but when he’s appropriate, you don’t must be an indie band to make an indie banger.” They then launched into Tame Impala’s “The Much less I Know the Higher.”

“Now this subsequent quantity belongs to a bunch that for my cash is absolutely the best of all of the East Coast millinial indie bands,” Koenig mentioned forward of their efficiency of Seashore Home’s “House Track.” They adopted it up with Grizzly Bear’s “Two Weeks,” and TV on the Radio’s “Wolf Like Me,” earlier than closing out the set, per setlist.fm, with their very own “Walcott” from their 2008 self-titled debut.

The competition additionally featured the lately reunited Rilo Kiley, who kicked off their reunion tour at Fremont Theater in San Luis Obispo on Monday; Empire of the Solar; Bloc Occasion; and TV on the Radio.

Vampire Weekend, who launched Solely God Was Above Us final yr, head to Boston Calling subsequent on Might 25, adopted by a string of tour dates and competition appearances that run by means of September.