Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij Announces Side Project

Vampire Weekend’s multi-instrumentalist/singer Rostam Batmanglij (pictured far right) has a new side project in the works.

“The nature of Vampire Weekend thus far has been that none of our output has come from just one person in the band,” Batmanglij said in a statement. "So far everything we’ve done has come out of collaboration from at least two of us, and often the four of us, in various forms and to various degrees. For creative output that comes from just me I’ve taken on the name ‘Boys Like Us’.“

His first release, available June 1, will be a remix of Jack Johnson’s “You and Your Heart.”

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