Vampire Weekend is the debut studio album by the American indie rock band Vampire Weekend, released in January 2008 on XL Recordings.
 The album was produced by band member Rostam Batmanglij, with mixing assistance from Jeff Curtin and Shane Stoneback.
Modern Vampires of the City is the 2013 third studio album by American indie rock band Vampire Weekend.
 The group began to write songs for the record during soundchecks on the supporting concert tour for their 2010 album "Contra".
 After a period in which each member explored individual musical projects, they regrouped and continued working on "Modern Vampires of the City" in 2011.
 With no deadline in mind, the band brought in an outside record producer for the first time, Ariel Rechtshaid, to record the album.
"Oxford Comma" is the third single by Vampire Weekend, released May 26, 2008, from their debut album, "Vampire Weekend".
Peace are an English indie rock quartet, formed in Worcester.
 The band consists of brothers Harry (vocals, guitar) and Sam Koisser (bass), Doug Castle (guitar) and Dom Boyce (drums).
 The band began to receive critical acclaim in early 2012 from publications such as "The Guardian" and "NME", who compared them to The Maccabees, Foals, Wu Lyf and Vampire Weekend.
 They were considered part of the B-Town movement, along with other bands such as Swim Deep, Jaws and Superfood.
"Giving Up the Gun" is the second single from Vampire Weekend's second album "Contra".
 The song was originally performed by L'Homme Run, a comedic rap duo that featured Vampire Weekend vocalist Ezra Koenig.
 The video was released February 19, 2010.
 Koenig got the idea for the song from Noel Perrin's 1979 book titled "Giving Up the Gun" given to him by his father.
Vampire Weekend is an American rock band from New York City, formed in 2006.
 They are currently signed to XL Recordings.
 The band consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Ezra Koenig, drummer and percussionist Chris Tomson and bassist and backing vocalist Chris Baio.
 The band's first album "Vampire Weekend" (2008) – which included the singles "Mansard Roof", "A-Punk", "Oxford Comma", "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" and "The Kids Don't Stand a Chance" – was acclaimed by critics for its world music influences.
 Their following album, "Contra" (2010), was similarly acclaimed and garnered strong commercial success.
 Their third studio album, "Modern Vampires of the City" (2013), won the group a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 2014.
Richard Ellef Ayoade ( , born 12 June 1977) is a British actor, comedian, writer, director and television presenter.
 He is best known as Maurice Moss in "The IT Crowd", for which he won the 2014 BAFTA for Best Male Comedy Performance, and as Dean Learner in "Garth Marenghi's Darkplace".
 He has directed two feature films – "Submarine" (2010) and "The Double" (2013) – as well as various music videos for bands including Arctic Monkeys, Vampire Weekend, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Kasabian.
"Diane Young" is a song by American indie rock band Vampire Weekend, taken from their third studio album "Modern Vampires of the City".
 It was released as the lead single from the album on April 20, 2013 through XL Recordings.
 A promotional video of the single, which features two Saab 900s burning throughout the duration of the song, was uploaded to Vevo and YouTube on March 18, 2013.
 The official video to the single was uploaded on June 3, 2013.
Versus is an American indie rock band formed in 1990 by Richard Baluyut, Fontaine Toups, and Edward Baluyut in New York City.
 Richard and Fontaine were to remain the two core members throughout the band's history.
 The band was noted for their marriage of indie pop songwriting and vocal harmonies to the "loud-soft" dynamics of grunge and alternative rock.
 They were also noted for their proficient and disciplined musicianship and for their credo of "meat, sports, and rock", none of which had much currency in the early 1990s American indie scene.
 They named themselves after the Mission of Burma album "Vs."
Ariel Rechtshaid (born March 23, 1979) is an American record producer, audio engineer, mixing engineer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter.
 His production, songwriting, and mixing credits include Brandon Flowers, HAIM, Vampire Weekend, Madonna, Tobias Jesso Jr., Usher, Adele, Cass McCombs, Solange Knowles, Murs, Sky Ferreira, We Are Scientists, Kylie Minogue, Glasser, Alex Clare, and Major Lazer.
 Rechtshaid co-wrote and produced Usher's 2012 single, "Climax", which won the 2013 Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance.
 Rechtshaid was nominated for the 2014 Grammy Award for Producer of the Year and won a Grammy for his production on the Vampire Weekend album "Modern Vampires of the City".
 He also produced the "Billboard" Hot 100 No. 1-charting single "Hey There Delilah" by the Plain White T's in 2007.
 Rechtshaid is the former lead singer and guitarist of the ska/pop-punk band The Hippos and the bassist and producer of indie folk-rock group Foreign Born.

Question: In what city were the bands Vampire Weekend and Versus formed?
Answer: New York City.