The festival boasts names like Amanda Palmer, Kendrick Lamar, Public Enemy, Foxygen, Japandroids, MGMT and Vampire Weekend.

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Green Day, Dave Grohl, Vampire Weekend, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks also starred at SXSW this week.

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Vampire Weekend will play the Aug. 2-4 festival in Chicago just months after their upcoming album, "Modern Vampires of the City, " is released in May.

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Though the Beatles' Abbey Road was the top-selling LP of 2010, offerings from Arcade Fire, the Black Keys and Vampire Weekend claimed the next three slots.

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Vampire Weekend will provide the tunes during Wiig's hosting gig.

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The rap duo Kidz in the Hall is sort of like the Vampire Weekend of contemporary hip-hop: Its members met while attending an Ivy League university prominently reflected in their stage getup and they owe much of their success to the file-sharing footsoldiers of the music blogosphere.

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The other remake hitting theaters this weekend is a new version of the 1985 vampire film Fright Night.

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