Watch Vampire Weekend Cover Bob Dylan’s “Jokerman”

Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig (Josh Brasted/FilmMagic); Bob Dylan (Bob King/Redferns)
Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig (Josh Brasted/FilmMagic); Bob Dylan (Bob King/Redferns)

Last evening, Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig was interviewed for GQ LIVE in Los Angeles the place he was joined by the band for a shock set. They coated Bob Dylan’s 1983 Infidels track “Jokerman,” a track title that bears the identical identify of Koenig’s latest “Time Crisis” podcast episode the place he interviewed the designer behind the late ’90s typeface Jokerman. Vampire Weekend additionally did a rendition of the Honeycombs’ “Have I The Right” and performed “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa” from their self-titled 2008 debut album. Watch all of it beneath.

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Koenig lately shared a track known as “Friend Like U,” which was co-written by himself, iLoveMakonnen, and Bloodpop for Netflix sequence “Neo Yokio”’s Christmas particular. Vampire Weekend’s final studio LP was 2013’s Modern Vampires of the City Back in August, Koenig confirmed that his band’s long-awaited new album was completed, nonetheless a release date has not been set.

Read “On Hearing My Father’s Legacy in Vampire Weekend” over on the Pitch.

 
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