Kudos to Haim, first of all, for the best album title of the year. Breakup albums are so common that it’s surprising no one ...

Which must make it all the more frustrating for Haim that they keep having to defend their musical credentials. “Haim write ...

However, when you buy something through our retail links, Condé Nast may earn an affiliate commission.Haim have released their new album, I Quit. Co-produced by Danielle Haim and Rostam Batmanglij, ...

Rostam Batmanglij’s Life After Vampire Weekend. HALF-LIGHT. The queer Iranian-American indie rock star talks about stepping behind the mic for his new record ‘Half-Light,’ and his ...

Rostam Batmanglij has figured out the headline for this article. It doesn’t take long—just nine minutes and nine seconds into our interview—for the producer, musician and founding member of ...

Rostam Batmanglij, better known as Rostam, is not limited to his former band. Though he was one of the founding members of Vampire Weekend, the 34-year-old multi-instrumentalist decided to pursue solo ...

When Rostam Batmanglij was a kid growing up in Washington, D.C. — “must have been 13 or 14,” he figures — he used to ride around in his older brother’s car listening to a collection of ...

When Rostam Batmanglij turned thirty, he decided to move to Los Angeles. He had arrived in New York, in 2002, to study music at Columbia University. There he befriended a group of students with ...

— Rostam Batmanglij (@matsoR) January 26, 2016 “For now in the Vampire Weekend universe, it’s all about recording the next album,” Koenig assured today over Instagram.

Vampire Weekend co-founder and songwriter Rostam Batmanglij has left the band, according to a note posted on Twitter. “I wanted to let ppl kno [sic] I’m no longer a member of VW but that ...

In the past, Rostam Batmanglij has often operated in the background — as keyboardist and producer for Vampire Weekend, the eclectic New York City band he co-founded in 2006 and ...