Watch Vampire Weekend cover Tame Impala, Phoenix, TV On The Radio and more at Just Like Heaven

Vampire Weekend covered Tame Impala, Phoenix and TV On The Radio during their headline set at Just Like Heaven over the weekend.

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The band have recently been taking requests from the crowd for snippets of covers during their shows.

Over the weekend, Ezra Koenig dedicated a portion of the show towards the end of their set at The Rose Bowl in Pasadena as a “salute to indie” and proceeded to perform a brief series of covers by bands handpicked by the frontman. You can view them below.

He kicked off the section with Phoenix’s ‘Lisztomania’, which the French band performed at the festival last year. The frontman also teamed up with the band at Just Like Heaven last year.

Koenig then launched into Tame Impala’s ‘The Less I Know The Better’. Introducing the track he said: “Now a friend of mine said that Tame Impala’s not an indie band. Well, if my friend is correct, and I’m not sure he is, but if he is correct, you don’t have to be an indie band to make an indie banger.”

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Headliners @Vampire Weekend gave a “salute to indie” at @Just Like Heaven last night. The regular covers section of their set was dedicated to fellow blog-rock torchbearers, most of whom had played the nostalgia fest in previous years. VW did bits of “Lisztomania” by Phoenix, “The Less I Know The Better” by Tame Impala, “Space Song” by Beach House, “Two Weeks” by Grizzly Bear, and “Wolf Like Me” by TV On The Radio, who played the song on the same stage a few hours earlier.
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