Reuters — LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Indie rock band Vampire Weekend seems a good bet to take the No. 1 spot on next week's U.S. pop album chart. more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Imagine Simba as a golden cub in The Lion King wearing a popped collar and chewing a big wad of bubblegum and you have some approximation of the charms and trifles of Vampire Weekend, the New York band providing consummate college rock. more info

Live Daily — Coachella likely for reunion tour When Pavement announced they were reuniting in 2010, only one specific show was mentioned: Sept. 21 at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park, a run that has since expanded to four dates. Now they appear to be one of th... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Imagine Simba as a golden cub in “The Lion King” wearing a popped collar and chewing a big wad of bubblegum and you have some approximation of the charms and trifles of Vampire Weekend, the New York band providing consummate... more info

Stereogum — They're seemingly everywhere at once, but actually they're just in one place this Vampire Week -- California, muse to Contra, where the band brought bells to Conan and played an album-release show at the Henry Fonda Theater. Very Be Careful opened... more info

The Yellow Stereo — Kicking off the first big week of album releases in 2010, we have Vampire Weekend’s highly anticipated sophomore record, Contra. From my few listens, the band still retains that signature African sound from their debut. But, I’ve never been too... more info

VH1 News — Vampire Weekend's Contra takes aim at teenage bloggers. "You let your emotions get too tied into 15-year-old people's LiveJournals, and clearly that's not a good thing," Ezra Koenig said. more info

Rolling Stone — Because Vampire Weekend are the ultimate college band (at least for people who balk at the notion of a college band), it made sense that frontman Ezra Koenig had instruction in mind last night at Hollywood’s Henry Fonda Theater, where the New York ... more info

NME - The Bands Blog — Listen to Vampire Weekend's new album 'Contra' - and let us know what you think. Meanwhile, here's Ezra Koenig's track-by-track guide, a version of which appears in the current issue of NME, an 'albums for 2010' special. [...] Read more! more info

MTV.com News — 'You let your emotions get too tied into 15-year-old people's LiveJournals, and clearly that's not a good thing,' Ezra Koenig says.By James Montgomery Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij and Ezra Koenig Photo: MTV News Vampire Weekend have... more info