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Modern Vampires of the City

Index Modern Vampires of the City

Modern Vampires of the City is the 2013 third studio album by American indie rock band Vampire Weekend. [1]

171 relations: Ableton Live, Acclaimed Music, Alexis Petridis, AllMusic, Amazon (company), American Songwriter, Ampex, Angel Deradoorian, AnyDecentMusic?, Apple earbuds, ARIA Charts, Ariel Rechtshaid, Art pop, Associação Fonográfica Portuguesa, Aubrey (song), Ö3 Austria Top 40, Barnes & Noble, Baroque pop, Bildungsroman, Billboard (magazine), Billboard 200, Bob Byington, Bread (band), Brideshead Revisited, Brooklyn, Burbank, California, Canadian Albums Chart, Chamber pop, Chart-Track, Chicago Tribune, Chris Baio, Chris Tomson, Clash (magazine), Coming of age, Complex (magazine), Consequence of Sound, Contra (album), Damian Kulash, Das Racist, David Gates, Diane Young, Drowned in Sound, East Coast of the United States, Echo Park, Los Angeles, Electronic Musician, Emily Lazar, Empire State Building, Entertainment Weekly, Exclaim!, Ezra Koenig, ..., Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana, Foreign policy of the United States, Formant, GfK Entertainment Charts, God, GQ, Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album, Greg Kot, Grover Washington Jr., HuffPost, IFPI Denmark, IFPI Greece, Independent Albums, Independent Music Companies Association, Indie pop, Indie rock, Irish Albums Chart, Irish Independent Albums Chart, Irish Recorded Music Association, Irish traditional music, Jimmy Page, Joe LaPorta, Junior Reid, Key (music), Les Paul, List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2013, List of Billboard 200 number-one independent albums, List of number-one Billboard Alternative Albums of 2013, List of numbered streets in Manhattan, Los Angeles, MacBook, MacBook Pro, Magnet (magazine), Major Lazer, Martha's Vineyard, Matt de Jong, MegaCharts, Metacritic, Mojo (magazine), MSN Music, Music of Africa, Music Week, MusicOMH, Neumann U47, New York City, Nielsen SoundScan, NME, NPR, Official Charts Company, OK Go, Oricon, Paste (magazine), Pazz & Jop, Pitch control, Pitch shift, Pitchfork (website), Plug-in (computing), PopMatters, Pro Tools, Productores de Música de España, Q (magazine), Ras Michael, RCA Type 77-DX microphone, Record producer, Recorded Music NZ, Recording Industry Association of America, Recording Industry Association of America certification, Rich Costey, Robert Christgau, Rolling Stone, Rostam Batmanglij, Sampling (music), Scott Jacoby (producer), Scottish Singles and Albums Charts, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Simon Price, Slant Magazine, Souls of Mischief, Soundcheck, Soundelux, Spectrum analyzer, Spin (magazine), SpinMedia, Sputnikmusic, Standard score, Step (Vampire Weekend song), Stereogum, Sverigetopplistan, Swiss Hitparade, Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique, Tape recorder, Tension (music), The A.V. Club, The Daily Telegraph, The Fly (magazine), The Guardian, The Independent, The Left Banke, The New York Times, The Official Finnish Charts, The Times, The Village Voice, Time (magazine), Time Out (magazine), TiVo Corporation, UK Albums Chart, UK Independent Singles and Albums Charts, UKChartsPlus, Ultratop, Unbelievers (song), Uncut (magazine), Under the Radar (magazine), Universal Audio (company), Vampire Weekend, VG-lista, Weighted arithmetic mean, XL Recordings, Ya Hey (song), YZ (rapper), 1966 New York City smog, 56th Annual Grammy Awards. Expand index (121 more) »

Ableton Live

Ableton Live is a software music sequencer and digital audio workstation for macOS and Windows.

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Acclaimed Music

Acclaimed Music is a website created by Henrik Franzon, a statistician from Stockholm, SwedenMatt Rosoff, "The critics vs.

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Alexis Petridis

Alexis Petridis (born 13 September 1971 in Sunderland) is a British journalist, head rock and pop critic for the UK newspaper The Guardian, as well as a regular contributor to the magazine GQ.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company based in Seattle, Washington that was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994.

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American Songwriter

American Songwriter is a bimonthly magazine, established in 1984 covering every aspect of the craft and art of songwriting.

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Ampex

Ampex is an American electronics company founded in 1944 by Alexander M. Poniatoff.

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Angel Deradoorian

Angel Deradoorian (born July 18, 1986), also known mononymously as Deradoorian, is a musician based in Los Angeles, California.

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AnyDecentMusic?

AnyDecentMusic? is a website that collates album reviews from magazines, websites, and newspaper.

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Apple earbuds

Apple EarPods are white in-ear headphones included with music players and smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. They are designed to fit the ear while retaining a new design pushed by Apple alongside the iPod and iPod Touch products, with which they were sold together.

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ARIA Charts

The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association.

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Ariel Rechtshaid

Ariel Rechtshaid (born March 23, 1979) is an American record producer, audio engineer, mixing engineer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter.

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Art pop

Art pop (also typeset as art-pop or artpop) is a loosely defined style of pop music influenced by pop art's integration of high and low culture, and which emphasizes the manipulation of signs, style, and gesture over personal expression.

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Associação Fonográfica Portuguesa

The Associação Fonográfica Portuguesa (AFP) is the only recording industry association in Portugal.

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Aubrey (song)

"Aubrey" is a song written and composed by David Gates, and originally recorded by the pop-rock group Bread, of which Gates was the leader and primary music producer.

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Ö3 Austria Top 40

Ö3 Austria Top 40 is the official Austrian singles chart, as well as the radio show which presents it, aired Fridays on Hitradio Ö3.

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Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble, Inc., a Fortune 500 company, is the bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States, and a retailer of content, digital media, and educational products.

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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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Bildungsroman

In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman ("bildung", meaning "education", and "roman", meaning "novel"; English: "novel of formation, education, culture"; "coming-of-age story") is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming of age), in which character change is extremely important.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Bob Byington

Robert "'Bob" Byington (born April 29, 1971) is an American film director, screenwriter and actor living in Austin, Texas.

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Bread (band)

Bread was an American soft rock band from Los Angeles, California.

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Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945.

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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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Burbank, California

Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County in Southern California, United States, northwest of downtown Los Angeles.

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Canadian Albums Chart

The Canadian Albums Chart is the official album sales chart in Canada.

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Chamber pop

Chamber pop (sometimes called ork-pop, short for "orchestral pop") is a style of rock music characterized by an emphasis on melody and texture, the intricate use of strings, horns, piano, and vocal harmonies, and other components drawn from the orchestral and lounge pop of the 1960s.

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Chart-Track

GfK Chart-Track is a market research company that monitors music, videos and software sales in the United Kingdom and Ireland and was formed in 1996.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tronc, Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing.

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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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Clash (magazine)

Clash is a music and fashion magazine and website based in the United Kingdom.

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Coming of age

Coming of age is a young person's transition from being a child to being an adult.

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Complex (magazine)

Complex is an American New York-based media platform for youth culture which was founded as a bi-monthly magazine by fashion designer Marc (Ecko) Milecofsky.

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Consequence of Sound

Consequence of Sound (CoS) is a Chicago-based online magazine featuring news, editorials, and reviews of music and movies.

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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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Damian Kulash

Damian Joseph Kulash Jr. (born October 7, 1975) is the lead singer and guitarist for the rock band OK Go.

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Das Racist

Das Racist was an American alternative hip hop group based in Brooklyn, New York City, composed of MCs Heems and Kool A.D. and hype man Ashok Kondabolu (aka Dapwell).

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David Gates

David Ashworth Gates (born December 11, 1940) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and producer, best known as the frontman and co-lead singer (with Jimmy Griffin) of the group Bread, which reached the tops of the musical charts in Europe and North America on several occasions in the 1970s.

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Diane Young

"Diane Young" is a song by American indie rock band Vampire Weekend, taken from their third studio album Modern Vampires of the City.

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Drowned in Sound

Drowned in Sound, sometimes abbreviated to DiS, is a UK-based music webzine financed by artist management company Silentway.

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East Coast of the United States

The East Coast of the United States is the coastline along which the Eastern United States meets the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Echo Park, Los Angeles

Echo Park is a densely populated neighborhood of 43,000+ residents in Central Los Angeles.

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Electronic Musician

Electronic Musician is a monthly magazine published by NewBay Media featuring articles on synthesizers, music production and electronic musicians.

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Emily Lazar

Emily B. Lazar is an American Grammy-nominated mastering engineer.

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Empire State Building

The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American magazine, published by Meredith Corporation, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture.

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Exclaim!

Exclaim! is a monthly Canadian music magazine that features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and cutting-edge artists.

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Ezra Koenig

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

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Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana

The Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana (FIMI) is an umbrella organization that keeps track of virtually all aspects of the music recording industry in Italy.

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Foreign policy of the United States

The foreign policy of the United States is its interactions with foreign nations and how it sets standards of interaction for its organizations, corporations and system citizens of the United States.

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Formant

A formant, as defined by James Jeans, is a harmonic of a note that is augmented by a resonance.

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GfK Entertainment Charts

The GfK Entertainment Charts are the official music charts in Germany and are gathered and published by GfK Entertainment GmbH (formerly Media Control GmbH and Media Control GfK International GmbH) on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie (Federal Association of Phonographic Industry).

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God

In monotheistic thought, God is conceived of as the Supreme Being and the principal object of faith.

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GQ

GQ (formerly Gentlemen's Quarterly) is an international monthly men's magazine based in New York City and founded in 1931.

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Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album

The Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album is an award presented to recording artists for quality albums in the alternative genre at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.

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Greg Kot

Greg Kot (born March 3, 1957) is an American writer, author and journalist.

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Grover Washington Jr.

Grover Washington Jr. (December 12, 1943 – December 17, 1999) was an American jazz-funk / soul-jazz saxophonist.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated HuffPo) is a liberal American news and opinion website and blog that has both localized and international editions.

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IFPI Denmark

IFPI Denmark is the Danish branch of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and is the official charts provider and recording sales certification body for Denmark.

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IFPI Greece

International Federation of the Phonographic Industry Greece, or simply IFPI Greece, is the Greek branch of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and is the official charts provider and recording sales certification body for Greece.

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Independent Albums

The Independent Albums chart (previously titled Top Independent Albums) ranks the highest-selling independent music albums and extended plays (EPs) in the United States, as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Independent Music Companies Association

The Independent Music Companies Association (also known as IMPALA, originally the Independent Music Publishers and Labels Association) is a non-profit trade body established in April 2000 to help European independent music companies represent their own agenda and promote independent music in the interests of artistic, entrepreneurial and cultural diversity.

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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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Irish Albums Chart

The Irish Albums Chart is the Irish music industry standard albums popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on its behalf by Chart-Track.

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Irish Independent Albums Chart

The Irish Independent Albums Chart (also known as Independent Artist Albums or Top 20 Indie Albums) is a chart of best-selling independent album releases in Ireland.

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Irish Recorded Music Association

The Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) is a non-profit association set up in 1999 to manage and control the music industry in the Republic of Ireland.

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Irish traditional music

Irish traditional music (also known as Irish trad, Irish folk music, and other variants) is a genre of folk music that developed in Ireland.

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Jimmy Page

James Patrick Page (born 9 January 1944) is an English musician, songwriter, and record producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin.

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Joe LaPorta

Joseph J. LaPorta (born c. 1980) is a Grammy Award-winning American mastering engineer at Sterling Sound, NYC.

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Junior Reid

Delroy "Junior" Reid (born 6 June 1963) is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall musician, best known for his featuring on the songs "It's Okay (One Blood)" and "This Is Why I'm Hot", as well as being the lead vocalist for Black Uhuru on three albums: Brutal, Positive and Black Uhuru Live in New York.

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Key (music)

In music theory, the key of a piece is the group of pitches, or scale, that forms the basis of a music composition in classical, Western art, and Western pop music.

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Les Paul

Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009), known as Les Paul, was an American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor.

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List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2013

The highest-selling albums and EPs in the United States are ranked in the ''Billboard'' 200, which is published by Billboard magazine.

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List of Billboard 200 number-one independent albums

The following is a list of independently distributed records to achieve the #1 spot on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart since 1991, when Nielsen Soundscan began recording album sales data.

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List of number-one Billboard Alternative Albums of 2013

These are the U.S. number-one alternative rock albums of 2013, per the Billboard Alternative Albums chart.

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List of numbered streets in Manhattan

The New York City borough of Manhattan contains 214 numbered east–west streets numbered from 1st to 228th, the majority of them created by the Commissioners' Plan of 1811.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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MacBook

The MacBook is a brand of notebook computers manufactured by Apple Inc. from May 2006 to February 2012, and relaunched in 2015.

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MacBook Pro

The MacBook Pro (sometimes abbreviated as MBP) is a line of Macintosh portable computers introduced in January 2006 by Apple Inc.

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Magnet (magazine)

Magnet is a music magazine that generally focuses on alternative, independent, or out-of-the-mainstream bands.

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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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Martha's Vineyard

Martha's Vineyard (Wampanoag: Noepe; often called just the Vineyard) is an island located south of Cape Cod in Massachusetts that is known for being an affluent summer colony.

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Matt de Jong

Matt de Jong is a graphic designer and art director who specializes in album art and related promotional materials for musicians.

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MegaCharts

MegaCharts, since 2008 called GfK Dutch Charts, is a chart company responsible for the composition and exploitation of a broad collection of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Single Top 100 and the Album Top 100 are the most known ones.

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Metacritic

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: music albums, video games, films, TV shows, and formerly, books.

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Mojo (magazine)

Mojo is a popular music magazine published initially by Emap, and since January 2008 by Bauer, monthly in the United Kingdom.

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MSN Music

MSN Music is a part of MSN's web services.

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Music of Africa

The traditional music of Africa, given the vastness of the continent, is historically ancient, rich and diverse, with different regions and nations of Africa having many distinct musical traditions.

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Music Week

Music Week is a trade paper for the UK record industry.

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MusicOMH

musicOMH is a London-based online music magazine which publishes independent reviews, features and interviews from across all genres including classical, metal, rock and R&B.

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Neumann U47

The U 47 was a large-diaphragm condenser microphone manufactured by Georg Neumann GmbH during the years 1949-1965.

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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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Nielsen SoundScan

Nielsen SoundScan is an information and sales tracking system created by Mike Fine and Mike Shalett.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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Official Charts Company

The Official Charts Company, also referred to as Official Charts (previously known as the Chart Information Network (CIN) and The Official UK Charts Company) is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various "official" record charts in the United Kingdom, including the UK Singles Chart, the UK Albums Chart, the UK Singles Downloads Chart and the UK Album Downloads Chart, as well as genre-specific and music video charts.

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OK Go

OK Go is an American rock band originally from Chicago, Illinois, now based in Los Angeles, California.

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Oricon

, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan.

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Paste (magazine)

Paste is a monthly music and entertainment digital magazine published in the United States by Wolfgang's Vault.

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Pazz & Jop

Pazz & Jop is an annual poll of musical releases compiled by American newspaper The Village Voice since 1971.

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Pitch control

A variable speed pitch control (or vari-speed) is a control on an audio device such as a turntable, tape recorder, or CD player that allows the operator to deviate from a standard speed (such as 33⅓, 45 or even 78 rpm on a turntable).

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Pitch shift

Pitch shifting is a sound recording technique in which the original pitch of a sound is raised or lowered.

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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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Plug-in (computing)

In computing, a plug-in (or plugin, add-in, addin, add-on, addon, or extension) is a software component that adds a specific feature to an existing computer program.

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PopMatters

PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture.

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Pro Tools

Pro Tools is a digital audio workstation developed and released by Avid Technology for Microsoft Windows and macOS which can be used for a wide range of sound recording and sound production purposes.

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Productores de Música de España

Productores de Música de España (Spanish Music Producers) (shortened as Promusicae, sometimes stylised PROMUSICAE) is the organisation responsible for the Spanish Albums Chart and other music charts.

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Q (magazine)

Q is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom.

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Ras Michael

Michael George Henry OD (born 1943), better known as Ras Michael, is a Jamaican reggae singer and Nyabinghi specialist.

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RCA Type 77-DX microphone

The RCA Type 77-DX microphone is a poly-directional ribbon microphone, or pressure-gradient microphone, introduced by the RCA Corporation in 1954.

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Record producer

A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

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Recorded Music NZ

Recorded Music NZ (formerly Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ)) is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States.

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Recording Industry Association of America certification

In the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) awards certification based on the number of albums and singles sold through retail and other ancillary markets.

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Rich Costey

Rich Costey is an American record producer, mixer and engineer, whose work ranges from hip-hop, rock, pop, indie, and electronica.

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Robert Christgau

Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American essayist and music journalist.

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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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Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece.

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Scott Jacoby (producer)

Scott Adam Jacoby (born October 31, 1971) is an American record producer, songwriter, composer, sound engineer, and recording artist.

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Scottish Singles and Albums Charts

The Scottish Singles Chart (Scots: Scots Singles Chairt, Scottish Gaelic: Cuairt Orain na h-Alba) and Scottish Albums Chart are charts compiled by the Official Charts Company, based on physical and digital sales in Scotland.

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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

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Simon Price

Simon Price (born 25 September 1967, Barry, Wales) is a British music journalist and author.

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Slant Magazine

Slant Magazine is an American online publication that features reviews of movies, music, TV, DVDs, theater, and video games, as well as interviews with actors, directors, and musicians.

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Souls of Mischief

Souls of Mischief is a hip hop group from Oakland, California, that is also part of the hip hop collective Hieroglyphics.

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Soundcheck

A soundcheck is the preparation that takes place before a concert, speech, or similar performance, when the performer and the sound crew run through a small portion of the upcoming show on the venue's sound reinforcement system or PA system to make sure that the sound in the venue's front of house and stage monitor sound systems are producing clear sound that is at the right volume and which has the correct mix and tonal balance (a process done using the mixing console).

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Soundelux

Soundelux is an audio post production company based in Hollywood, California.

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Spectrum analyzer

A spectrum analyzer measures the magnitude of an input signal versus frequency within the full frequency range of the instrument.

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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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SpinMedia

SpinMedia (formerly Buzz Media) was an American digital publisher which owned a number of pop culture websites, including Spin, Stereogum, Vibe and The Frisky.

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Sputnikmusic

Sputnikmusic is a music community website offering music criticism and music news alongside features commonly associated with wiki-style websites.

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Standard score

In statistics, the standard score is the signed number of standard deviations by which the value of an observation or data point differs from the mean value of what is being observed or measured.

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Step (Vampire Weekend song)

"Step" is a song by American indie rock band Vampire Weekend.

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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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Sverigetopplistan

Sverigetopplistan (lit. "Sweden top list") is the Swedish national record chart, earlier known as Topplistan (1975–1997) and Hitlistan (1998–2007) and known by its current name since October 2007, based on sales data from the Swedish Recording Industry Association (in Swedish Grammofonleverantörernas förening).

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Swiss Hitparade

The Swiss Hitparade (Schweizer Hitparade) are Switzerland's main music sales charts.

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Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique

The National Syndicate of Phonographic Publishing (Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique; SNEP) is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry.

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Tape recorder

An audio tape recorder, tape deck, or tape machine is an audio storage device that records and plays back sounds, including articulated voices, usually using magnetic tape, either wound on a reel or in a cassette, for storage.

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Tension (music)

In music, tension is the anticipation music creates in a listener's mind for relaxation or release.

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The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club is an entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop culture media.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Fly (magazine)

The Fly was a free music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom, owned by MAMA & Company.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Left Banke

The Left Banke is an American baroque pop band, formed in New York City in 1965.

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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 Official Finnish Charts

The Official Finnish Charts (Suomen virallinen lista, Finlands officiella lista) are national record charts in Finland composed by Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Time Out (magazine)

Time Out is a British travel magazine published by Time Out Group.

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TiVo Corporation

TiVo Corporation (formerly Rovi Corporation and Macrovision Solutions Corporation) is an American technology company.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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UK Independent Singles and Albums Charts

The UK Independent Singles Chart and UK Independent Albums Chart are charts of the best-selling independent singles and albums, respectively, in the United Kingdom.

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UKChartsPlus

UKChartsPlus is an independent weekly newsletter about the UK music charts.

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Ultratop

Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium.

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Unbelievers (song)

"Unbelievers" is a song by American indie pop band Vampire Weekend.

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Uncut (magazine)

Uncut magazine, trademarked as UNCUT, is a monthly publication based in London.

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Under the Radar (magazine)

Under the Radar is an American magazine that bills itself as "The solution to music pollution" and features interviews with accompanying photo-shoots.

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Universal Audio (company)

Universal Audio is a designer and importer of audio signal processing hardware and DSP software founded in 1958 by Bill Putnam.

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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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VG-lista

VG-lista is a Norwegian record chart.

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Weighted arithmetic mean

The weighted arithmetic mean is similar to an ordinary arithmetic mean (the most common type of average), except that instead of each of the data points contributing equally to the final average, some data points contribute more than others.

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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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Ya Hey (song)

"Ya Hey" is a song by American indie pop band Vampire Weekend, taken from their third studio album Modern Vampires of the City.

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YZ (rapper)

Anthony Hill, known by his stage name YZ, and alias Ali Sa'id Nur al-Din, is an American rapper from Trenton, New Jersey.

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1966 New York City smog

The 1966 New York City smog was an air-pollution event, with damaging levels of carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, smoke, and haze.

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56th Annual Grammy Awards

The 56th Annual Grammy Awards presentation was held on January 26, 2014, at Staples Center in Los Angeles.

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References

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

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