Guardian Music — Vampire Weekend have been derided as preppy imperialists trading in African culture – but appearances can be deceiving. Paul Lester meets the New York quartet in CaliforniaVampire Weekend are being mobbed in California. By teenage girls. In a ... more info

Stereogum — Just before Christmas a "cover" of "Anarchy In The UK"/"Stand By Me" surfaced on the Internet. It was credited to Chances R, fronted by Dave Longstreth in one form or another. Yeah, it's pretty clear it's the Dirty Projectors' frontman and friends in... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — It's hard to believe the year is already over, where did the time go? It was just yesterday when I was happily kicking off 2009 spinning Merriweather Post Pavilion and eagerly anticipating all of the year's excellent albums. Now a new decade is upo... more info

Guardian Music — Our music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn offPublic Image Limited Religion II PiL's pre-Christmas shows proved that John Lydon should not be remembered either as panto punk or eccentric butter salesman, but as arguably... more info

Stereogum — The purest year-end music list would be a playcount of the tunes you listened to most, and not the carefully sculpted, self-consciously eclectic 1-10s we end up reading. We know you're as sick as we are of parsing critics' picks, so here's at leas... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — While the debate rages onward on which album you think should've been 2009's number one, HMV have released their 9th annual "Poll of Polls" year-end list surveying 34 different publications/websites. Although their survey tends to (obviously) favor ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — David Byrne w/ Dirty Projectors @ Bowery Ballroom I have, after many years, finished the Here Lies Love CD project - at least this iteration of it. It will come out [February 23rd] on Nonesuch. It's a collaboration with Fatboy... more info

Nialler9 — Yes, it’s still list season. As State kicks off its Top 50 of the year, here are my own top 30 albums of the year in four-page epic form. 30. Channel One – Sound to Light 29. Clark – Totem’s Flare 28. The Phantom Band - Checkmate ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — David Byrne w/ Dirty Projectors @ MHOW I have, after many years, finished the Here Lies Love CD project - at least this iteration of it. It will come out [February 23rd] on Nonesuch. It's a collaboration with Fatboy Slim,... more info

Rollo & Grady — The Guardian – Top 50 Albums of 2009 01 The xx – xx 02. Fever Ray – Fever Ray 03. Wild Beasts – Two Dancers 04. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca 05. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion 06. Florence and the Machine – Lungs ... more info