While Rostam only has one solo album out to date, the dreamy 2017 effort Half-Light, he’s worked with some of the biggest names in indie music. Most notably, the ex-Vampire Weekend member was Clairo’s ...

When Rostam Batmanglij left Vampire Weekend at the beginning of 2016, there was no doubt of his bona fides as a producer and a songwriter. Not only was he a pillar of the VW aesthetic, but his talents ...

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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Our hearts are broken, his heart is broken — we’re all broken. By leaving Vampire Weekend — one of ...

Rostam Batmanglij is perhaps best known for his music—whether it be with Vampire Weekend, Hamilton Leithauser or as a solo artist— and as a producer who’s worked with HAIM, Solange and Frank Ocean, ...

Ahead of a Haim show at Inglewood's Kia Forum, Danielle Haim and her co-producer Rostam Batmanglij look back at the making of ...

“In the last five years, something that has been on my mind is the concept of less is more, in the unit of the song and the unit of an album,” Rostam Batmanglij told W Magazine shortly after he ...

Three years after Vampire Weekend’s magnum opus, “Modern Vampires of the City,” the band’s guitarist, keyboardist, and producer Rostam Batmanglij announced he was leaving the group to pursue his own ...

The Song That Changed My Life is a segment that gives us the chance to talk with some of our favorite artists about the music that made them who they are today. This time around we're joined by singer ...

Rostam has busy handling production duties as of late, but for the first time in a bit, he has a new song of his own. “Unfold You” is a song that Rostam and Henry Solomon worked on for years, which ...

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 Bruce ...