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

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 ...

Rostam Batmanglij performs at the Museum of Fine Arts Saturday night. PHOTO COURTESY CARTER HOWE Rostam Batmanglij, better known as Rostam, is not limited to his former band. Though he was one of the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...