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Ezra Koenig

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Ezra Michael Koenig (born April 8, 1984) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, screenwriter and radio personality. [1]

106 relations: A Tribe Called Quest, Abd al Malik (rapper), American Broadcasting Company, Anime, Apple Music, Barbra Streisand (song), Baroque pop, Beats 1, Bernie Sanders, Beyoncé, Blondie (band), Boys (Charli XCX song), Brooklyn, Cape Cod, Ceremony (film), Charli XCX, Chris Baio, Chris Tomson, Chromeo, Columbia Records, Columbia University, Contra (album), David Longstreth, De La Soul, Destiny's Child, Dirty Projectors, Discovery (band), Duck Sauce, English literature, Fox Broadcasting Company, Girls (TV series), Glen Ridge High School, Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Grammy Award, Grateful Dead, Guitar, HBO, Her (film), Hold Up (song), Indie pop, Indie rock, Jaden Smith, Jake Longstreth, James Corden, Jamie Foxx, Jews, Joe Simpson (artist), Jonah Hill, Karen O, Lemonade (Beyoncé album), ..., LP (Discovery album), Major Lazer, Major Lazer (TV series), Manhattan, Manhattan Love Story, Mark Ronson, Midnight Marauders, Modern Vampires of the City, Neo Yokio, Netflix, New Jersey, New York City, North Jersey, Paul Simon, Percussion instrument, Peter Rabbit (film), Piano, Pitchfork (website), Psychotherapy, Ra Ra Riot, Radiohead, Ramones, Rashida Jones, Refinery29, Rock music, Rolling Stone, Rostam Batmanglij, Rotten Tomatoes, Royal Albert Hall, Run-DMC, Saturday Night Live, Saxophone, SBTRKT, Set dresser, Spin (magazine), Stereogum, Sublime (band), Teach For America, The Black Keys, The Guardian, The Moon Song, The New York Times, The Verge, The Very Best, The Walkmen, Theophilus London, Tim Heidecker, Time Crisis with Ezra Koenig, Upper West Side, Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend (album), Vulture, Warm Heart of Africa, Worldbeat, XL Recordings, 86th Academy Awards. Expand index (56 more) »

A Tribe Called Quest

A Tribe Called Quest was an American hip-hop collective formed in 1985 and originally composed of MC and main producer Q-Tip,.

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Abd al Malik (rapper)

Abd al Malik, born Régis Fayette-Mikano (born 14 March 1975 in Paris), is a French rapper and spoken word artist of Congolese origin.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Anime

Anime is a style of hand-drawn and computer animation originating in, and commonly associated with, Japan.

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Apple Music

Apple Music is a music and video streaming service developed by Apple Inc. Users select music to stream to their device on-demand, or they can listen to existing, curated playlists.

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Barbra Streisand (song)

"Barbra Streisand" is a song by American-Canadian DJ duo Duck Sauce.

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Baroque pop

Baroque pop (sometimes called baroque rock) is a fusion genre that combines rock music with particular elements of classical music.

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Beats 1

Beats 1 is a 24/7 music radio station owned and operated by Apple Inc. It is accessible through iTunes on a computer, and Apple Music on a smartphone or tablet.

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Bernie Sanders

Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Vermont since 2007.

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Beyoncé

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, and businesswoman.

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Blondie (band)

Blondie is an American rock band founded by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein.

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Boys (Charli XCX song)

"Boys" is a single by English singer Charli XCX, released on 26 July 2017 by Asylum Records and Atlantic Records UK.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017.

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Cape Cod

Cape Cod is a geographic cape extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of mainland Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States.

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Ceremony (film)

Ceremony is a 2010 American film directed by Max Winkler, in his feature film directorial debut.

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Charli XCX

Charlotte Emma Aitchison (born August 2, 1992), known professionally as Charli XCX, is an English singer and songwriter.

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Chris Baio

Christopher Baio (born October 29, 1984) is an American musician, best known for being the bassist for the New York City-based indie rock band Vampire Weekend.

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Chris Tomson

Christopher William "Chris" Tomson (born March 6, 1984) is an American drummer, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known for being the drummer for New York-based indie rock band Vampire Weekend.

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Chromeo

Chromeo is a Canadian electro-funk duo from Montreal, formed in 2002 by musicians David "Dave 1" Macklovitch and Patrick "P-Thugg" Gemayel.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Columbia University

Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Contra (album)

Contra is the second studio album by the American indie rock band Vampire Weekend, released in January 2010 on XL Recordings.

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David Longstreth

David Longstreth (born 17 December 1981) is an American singer and songwriter.

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De La Soul

De La Soul is an American hip hop trio formed in 1987 on Long Island, New York.

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Destiny's Child

Destiny's Child was an American girl group whose final and best-known line-up comprised Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams.

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Dirty Projectors

Dirty Projectors is an American indie rock band, fronted by David Longstreth, that has released eight full-length albums.

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Discovery (band)

Discovery is an American indie rock, electronic recording project of Rostam Batmanglij and Wesley Miles, friends who began recording together in the summer of 2005.

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Duck Sauce

Duck Sauce is an American-Canadian DJ duo, formed in 2009 in New York City.

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English literature

This article is focused on English-language literature rather than the literature of England, so that it includes writers from Scotland, Wales, and the whole of Ireland, as well as literature in English from countries of the former British Empire, including the United States.

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Fox Broadcasting Company

The Fox Broadcasting Company (often shortened to Fox and stylized as FOX) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox.

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Girls (TV series)

Girls is an American HBO television series created by and starring Lena Dunham and executive produced by Judd Apatow.

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Glen Ridge High School

Glen Ridge High School (GRHS) is a comprehensive six-year public high school serving students in seventh through twelfth grades in Glen Ridge, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Glen Ridge Public Schools.

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Glen Ridge, New Jersey

Glen Ridge is a borough in Essex County, New Jersey, United States.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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HBO

Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium cable and satellite television network of Home Box Office, Inc..

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Her (film)

Her is a 2013 American romantic science-fiction drama film written, directed, and produced by Spike Jonze.

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Hold Up (song)

"Hold Up" is a song recorded by American singer Beyoncé for her sixth studio album, Lemonade (2016).

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Indie pop

Indie pop (also typeset as indie-pop or indiepop) is a music genre and subculture that combines guitar pop with DIY ethic in opposition to the style and tone of mainstream pop music.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.

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Jaden Smith

Jaden Christopher Syre Smith (born July 8, 1998) is an American actor, rapper, singer and songwriter.

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Jake Longstreth

John Pullman "Jake" Longstreth, Jr. (born 1977 in Sharon, Connecticut) is an American painter and radio personality.

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James Corden

James Kimberley Corden (born 22 August 1978) is an English actor, writer, producer, comedian, television host, and singer.

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Jamie Foxx

Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), known professionally as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer, songwriter, record producer, film producer, and comedian.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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Joe Simpson (artist)

Joe Simpson (born 4 May 1984) is an English figurative painter based in London.

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Jonah Hill

Jonah Hill Feldstein (born December 20, 1983) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and comedian.

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Karen O

Karen Lee Orzolek (born November 22, 1978), better known by her stage name Karen O, is a South Korean-born American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer.

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Lemonade (Beyoncé album)

Lemonade is the sixth solo album by American recording artist Beyoncé, released on April 23, 2016 by Parkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records.

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LP (Discovery album)

LP is the debut album by the band Discovery, released July 7, 2009 on vinyl on July 14, 2009 on CD via XL Recordings.

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Major Lazer

Major Lazer is an American electronic dance music trio composed of record producer Diplo, and DJs Jillionaire and Walshy Fire.

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Major Lazer (TV series)

Major Lazer is an American animated television series based on the electronic dance music project of the same name, created by DJ and record producer Diplo with Ferry Gouw and Kevin Kusatsu.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Manhattan Love Story

Manhattan Love Story is an American romantic comedy television series that was created by Jeff Lowell.

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Mark Ronson

Mark Daniel Ronson (born 4 September 1975) is an English musician, DJ, singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Midnight Marauders

Midnight Marauders is the third studio album by American hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest, released on November 9, 1993, by Jive Records.

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Modern Vampires of the City

Modern Vampires of the City is the 2013 third studio album by American indie rock band Vampire Weekend.

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Neo Yokio

Neo Yokio is an American-Japanese co-produced animated television series created by Ezra Koenig of American rock band Vampire Weekend, and produced by Japanese anime studios Production I.G. and Studio Deen.

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Netflix

Netflix, Inc. is an American over-the-top media services provider, headquartered in Los Gatos, California.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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North Jersey

North Jersey comprises the northern portions of the U.S. state of New Jersey between the upper Delaware River and the Atlantic Ocean.

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Paul Simon

Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and actor.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.

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Peter Rabbit (film)

Peter Rabbit is a 2018 live-action/computer-animated comedy film directed by Will Gluck and written by Rob Lieber and Gluck, based on the stories of Peter Rabbit created by Beatrix Potter.

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Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

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Pitchfork (website)

Pitchfork is an American online magazine launched in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber, based in Chicago, Illinois and owned by Condé Nast.

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Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy is the use of psychological methods, particularly when based on regular personal interaction, to help a person change behavior and overcome problems in desired ways.

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Ra Ra Riot

Ra Ra Riot is an American indie rock band from Syracuse, New York, consisting of vocalist Wes Miles, bassist Mathieu Santos, guitarist Milo Bonacci, violinist Rebecca Zeller and drummer Kenny Bernard.

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Radiohead

Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985.

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Ramones

The Ramones were an American punk rock band that formed in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens, in 1974.

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Rashida Jones

Rashida Leah Jones (born February 25, 1976) is an American actress.

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Refinery29

Refinery29 is an American digital media and entertainment company focused on young women.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Rostam Batmanglij

Rostam Batmanglij (Persian: رستم باتمانقلیچ; born November 28, 1983), known mononymously as Rostam, is an American songwriter, composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist of electro-soul group Discovery, and formerly of New York City-based indie rock band Vampire Weekend.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, which has held the Proms concerts annually each summer since 1941.

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Run-DMC

Run-DMC was an American hip hop group from Hollis, Queens, New York, founded in 1981 by Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels, and Jason Mizell.

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Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live (SNL) is an American late-night live television variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol.

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Saxophone

The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments.

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SBTRKT

SBTRKT (pronounced "subtract") is the musical project headed up by Aaron Jerome.

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Set dresser

A set dresser in drama (theater, film etc.) prepares the set with props and furniture to give it correct appearance and make sure each item is in correct position for each performance.

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Spin (magazine)

Spin is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. The magazine stopped running in print in 2012 and currently runs as a webzine.

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Stereogum

Stereogum is a daily Internet publication that focuses on music news, song premieres, and irreverent commentary.

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Sublime (band)

Sublime was an American ska punk band from Long Beach, California, formed in 1988.

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Teach For America

Teach For America (TFA) is a nonprofit organization whose stated mission is to "enlist, develop, and mobilize as many as possible of our nation's most promising future leaders to grow and strengthen the movement for educational equity and excellence." The organization aims to accomplish this by recruiting and selecting college graduates from top universities around the United States to serve as teachers.

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The Black Keys

The Black Keys are an American rock band formed in Akron, Ohio, in 2001.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Moon Song

"The Moon Song" is a song from the 2013 feature film Her, with music composed by Karen Orzolek (Karen O) and lyrics by Karen Orzolek and Spike Jonze.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Verge

The Verge is an American technology news and media network operated by Vox Media.

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The Very Best

The Very Best is a collaboration between London-based DJ/production duo Radioclit and Esau Mwamwaya, a singer from Lilongwe, Malawi.

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The Walkmen

The Walkmen is an American indie rock band, with members based in New York City and Philadelphia.

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Theophilus London

Theophilus Musa London (born February 23, 1987) is a Trinidadian-born American rapper and singer.

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Tim Heidecker

Timothy Richard Heidecker (born February 3, 1976) is an American comedian, writer, director, actor, and musician.

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Time Crisis with Ezra Koenig

Time Crisis with Ezra Koenig is a fortnightly radio show created and hosted by Ezra Koenig that began airing on July 12, 2015 on Apple Music's radio service, Beats 1.

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Upper West Side

The Upper West Side, sometimes abbreviated UWS, is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, New York City, that lies between Central Park and the Hudson River and between West 59th Street and West 110th Street.

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Vampire Weekend

Vampire Weekend is an American rock band from New York City, formed in 2006 and currently signed to Columbia Records.

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Vampire Weekend (album)

Vampire Weekend is the eponymous debut studio album by American rock band Vampire Weekend, released on January 29, 2008 by XL Recordings.

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Vulture

A vulture is a scavenging bird of prey.

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Warm Heart of Africa

Warm Heart of Africa is the debut studio album for The Very Best.

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Worldbeat

Worldbeat is a music genre that blends pop music or rock music with world music or traditional music.

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XL Recordings

XL Recordings is a British independent record label founded in 1989 by Richard Russell, Tim Palmer and Nick Halkes.

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86th Academy Awards

The 86th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2013 and took place on March 2, 2014, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Koenig

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