vampire weekend vs the black keys

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Satirical genius Stephen Colbert took home a Grammy last year for his Christmas album, A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All. That victory apparently affords him the privilege of voting for this year's Grammy winners, to be announced February 13.

He did a terrific bit on last night's Colbert Report, filling out his Grammy ballot on the air. Packed with a ton of punch lines about the music industry — "these days no one pays for music anymore.. it's gone the way of pornography" — the sketch culminates with his vote for Best Alternative Music Album.

Torn between Vampire Weekend and The Black Keys, Colbert invites Ezra Koening and The Black Keys on set to make their case. The debate turns into a "sell-out off", with each band showing commercials they've sold songs to — something we chided Vampire Weekend for a few months ago.

Watch the clip below. The confrontation begins around 4:30, but the whole bit is inspired:



"Clearly you have both equally whored out your music." Nice.

vampire black friday weekend

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If you were like me, you spent copious hours beached in front of the television watching football, more football and random bits of Ben Stiller romcoms over the holiday weekend.

 

And if you did so, you most certainly heard Vampire Weekend's "Holiday". Stereogum beat me to the punch, but the prep school poofs have sold their prepackaged commercial jam to two different ad campaigns.

This perfectly pretentious Tommy Hilfiger ad is the most appropriate fit:




More generic, yet more omnipresent, is the Honda Civic campaign — I even heard a radio version on the way to work today:




With all this Madison Avenue cash rolling in, they really can roll like 18th century aristocrats.



Wow, they truly are terrible.