The Black Keys Battle Vampire Weekend On Colbert

Official Grammy winner Stephen Colbert invited the Best Alternative Album nominees Black Keys and Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig on his show Tuesday night, and challenged them to a “sell-out off.”The idea? Figure out who was truly alternative by way of who’s music has appeared on most commercials (’90s alt-rock is officially dead.) As it turns out, both have been in a lot of adverts lately.

“Well played, Black Keys. I see you a Zales and raise you a Honda,” said Koenig.

Things looked to get ugly, until Colbert conceded that “you have both equally whored out your music.” (He later tweeted: I’m going to have 30 seconds of that Black Keys song stuck in my head all night.)

It only got crazier from there.

Watch the full sketch below.