Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Chris Graham As you may have heard by now, Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij and Ra Ra Riot's Wes Miles have a group called Discovery who have an album coming out on XL Recordings on July 7th. Guests on... more info

JamBase — Dfest's Second Round Headliners Announced Including Cake, Mates of State, Ra Ra Riot, Dengue Fever & More Cake The largest music festival and conference in the Midwest today announced the second round of artists to headline this year's event.... more info

Clickmusic — Rostam Batmanglij collaborates with Ra Ra Riot's singer for Discovery. more info

Buzzgrinder — I'm really looking forward to seeing So Many Dynamos in Lexington come June. I really enjoyed them last December with Ra Ra Riot. Plus Maps and Atlases is always good, too. The string of dates isn't huge, but hopefully enough Buzzgrinderers will get ... more info

Pasta Primavera — Apparently this  super indie band team up has been in the works for a while now, but for those who don’t know Rostam Batmanglij of  Vampire Weekend and Wes Miles of Ra Ra Riot have joined forces to form Discovery - an electronic rock pop excu... more info

Stereogum — After we premiered each track from Death Cab's new Open Door EP, the band set out on a North American tour that found its way to UC San Diego's RIMAC Arena last night. Photographer Andrew Youssef made the drive from L.A. to La Jolla (as did a lot ... more info

Pop Tarts Suck Toasted — Sonic Youth - "Sacred Trickster"; The first taste that we get from Sonic Youth's new album is a bit too brief for my liking. At only 2-minutes this pales in comparison to the old super long suites Sonic Youth were known for, but it assaults your ears... more info

Abeano — Ever wondered what would have happened if Postal Service had made a follow up to the wonderful ‘Give Up’ ? But informed less by indie and emo and more the kind of modern day r’n‘b vibes more closely associated with the likes of R.Kelly... more info

Stereogum — Overlapping waves of hype and backlash behind them, Vampire Weekend have moved on to the business of making new music. Except that they been had making new music since the halcyon Vampire Weekend days. We first heard "White Sky" on that little record... more info

My Old Kentucky — Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend has teamed up with Wes Miles of Ra Ra Riot to create Discovery. There are only two tracks up on their MySpace right now, but they say they're "COMING HARD AT YOU IN 2009!" This track, Osaka Loop Line, is quite d... more info