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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Rostam Batmanglij’s Echo Park backyard, past a wooden deck shaded by two trees sagging with grapefruits and avocados, is a small recording studio. When Batmanglij moved here, ...

Alana, Danielle, and Este Haim made their follow-up to 2020’s Women in Music Pt. III with Rostam Batmanglij, Tobias Jesso Jr., Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, and others ...

Former Vampire Weekend member Rostam Batmanglij delivered a nimble cover of Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” during an appearance on Sirius XMU.. The stripped-down performance featured ...

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 ...

Alana, Danielle, and Este Haim made their follow-up to 2020’s Women in Music Pt. III with Rostam Batmanglij, Tobias Jesso Jr., Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, and others ...