Beach House and Vampire Weekend at McDonald — Don’t Believe the Merc!

The Portland Mercury might be the dopest alt-weekly Oregon has to offer, but inaccuracies in 94/7 FM’s recent ads may have caused some confusion. Beach House and Vampire Weekend will indeed showcase their immense talents in the great state of Oregon at Eugene’s McDonald Theater on September 1st; one night after their ‘Only Oregon Show’ at the Edgefield Amphitheater in Portland.

Contra, Vampire Weekend’s most recent album, peaked at number one on the pop charts and the NYC quartet is celebrating with a world tour which kicked off on August 27th in Vancouver, B.C. and runs through December 6, when they play the second of back-to-back shows in Dublin.

Their Sept. 1 show will be V.W.’s second in Eugene, the first being in 2007, at a venue drummer Chris Tomson described as ‘tiny.’ Tomson couldn’t divulge what the Eugene audience can expect to hear. Just to be prepared to hear a schmorgasboard of tracks from the bands four year history.

Fresh off their third album, Teen Dream, the Dream Pop duo Beach House, which we featured on the OV Blog here,  opens for V.W on their entire 6-week American tour. They’re tight. (maybe even more worthy of the $35 price tag than the band they’re opening for.)

The calendar — and the clouds, goddamn it — might read September, but show them both what’s up and enjoy another summer night in Eugene courtesy of Beach House and Vampire Weekend: Wednesday, September 1st at the McDonald Theater. Doors: 7; Show: 8.Tickets: $35 advance, $40 door.

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