Guardian Music — Bloggers told they have violated terms without further explanation, as years of archives are wiped off the internetIn what critics are calling "musicblogocide 2010", Google has deleted at least six popular music blogs that it claims violated copyrigh... more info

ContactMusic — Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig was branded a "huge stoner" by one of his high school teachers. The 'Cousins' singer said he was mistaken for a heavy marijuana smoker... more info

ContactMusic — THE STROKES rocker FABRIZIO MORETTI has joined NORAH JONES and VAMPIRE WEEKEND to help raise funds for Haiti - by selling off personalised memorabilia.The musicians... more info

NME — Conor Oberst and Devendra Banhart have also made items more info

Rollo & Grady — Amoeba Music – Hollywood 1. Charlotte Gainsbourg – IRM 2. Beach House – Teen Dream 3. Spoon – Transference 4. XX – Self-Titled 5. Vampire Weekend – Contra 6. Soft Pack – Self-Titled 7. Dave Rawlings Machine – Friend of a Friend 8. Sur... more info

Stereogum — Los Angeles-via-Pennsylvania multi-instrumental singer and home recordist Evan Voytas -- sort of a more clean-cut Ariel Pink -- creates strange synth-pop/space-disco outings that feel danceable but private and insular. The idea's explored in the vide... more info

NME Radio — Hiya, Chris Martin from the NME Radio evening show here. A quick heads up for you on Jon Hillcock and his guests this week; he'll be chatting to all the NME Awards Tour Bands, finding out what's been happening from inside the camp, also he's got a Va... more info

Its Getting Boring By The Sea — First in a new thing I'm going to do, rounding up the days goings on in a few handy links. Hopefully this way I won't miss much of what is going on but won't have to spin a full post out of tiny internet morsels. Here goes nothing...Liam Gallagher ha... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Last week Vampire Weekend stopped by BBC’s studio’s to record a live session for Zane Lowe. Usually band’s are allowed to pick a song to cover, and Vampire Weekend choose Rancid’s “Ruby Soho”. If you had to predict what Vampire Weekend wo... more info

Stereogum — When dishing up our two cents on Vampire Weekend's Billboard-topping Contra we noted: It would have been interesting if Ezra had worked some of his knowledge/love of punk and hardcore (a la his Fucked Up moment) into the mix. The song notes provided ... more info