Haim’s Danielle, Alana, and Este Haim, June 2025 (Theo Wargo/NBC via Getty Images) Haim have released their new album, I Quit. Co-produced by Danielle Haim and Rostam Batmanglij, the follow-up ...

On his mesmerizing new album, 'Changephobia,' former Vampire Weekend member Rostam channels everything from bebop to Bruce Springsteen.

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 ...

The Moment Rostam Batmanglij Decided to Embrace Change With his second LP, the Vampire Weekend alum shakes out his own fears and explores the intersection of being a gay Iranian-American.

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 ...

Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij has left the band to focus on a variety of new projects, but says he'll continue to collaborate with Ezra Koenig.

Rostam’s story is one that’s definitively American; that a gay, first-generation American can find success on his own in 2017, regardless of what the current powers would have you believe.

After leaving Vampire Weekend, songwriter and producer Rostam Batmanglij is making moves at his own pace.

Haim have released their new album, I Quit. Co-produced by Danielle Haim and Rostam Batmanglij, the follow-up to 2020’s Women in Music Pt. III features the three sisters— Alana, Danielle, and ...