Improve Your Life: Vampire Hands Over Vampire Weekend

I really love the band Vampire Hands; Vampire Weekend? Not so much. Vampire Hands' latest album is called Me and You Cherry Red. "Safe Word" and "No Fun" are by far the best tracks on this album, and man are they good. Vampire Hands is a local band (Origin: Minneapolis, MN), and they have a wonderful raw and dirty, bluesy rock going on. Overall the sound is a bit more fun than the Black Keys, not to mention a bit more full (bass is included). My friend recently made a movie called Bits, and Vampire Hands' music was also in the movie--score! The band played at the movie opening and it was rad as hell.

Vampire Weekend and Vampire Hands don't have a lot in common, besides the fact that they are both actual rock bands--pretty hard to come by now-a-days. Anywhoo, Vampire Weekend seems to hang on by their teeth to Paul Simon's legacy (sorry). Besides the opening rift in A-Punk, I'm really not into their novelty (indie prep), or their style and subject of their songs. Please, please, check out Vampire Hands--you won't be disappointed!