We All Want Someone To Shout For — Just found out that Vampire Weekend played their new song Horchata live last week at their Toronto show on October 8th. Very good performance! Check it out. below: more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — Violens are the project of Jorge Elbrecht, formerly of Lansing-Dreiden, and a few of his co-conspirators from that band. Last year they toured with the likes of MGMT, Grizzly Bear, and Deerhunter in support of their debut self-titled EP. They've got ... more info

Pop Tarts Suck Toasted — Vampire Weekend -"Horchata"; For the first single off their highly anticipated sophomore album Vampire Weekend have resorted to a lot of the tricks that propelled them in the first place. Repetition, catchy lyrics, tribal rhythms are in place once ag... more info

!tashed — Vampire Weekend infected the music world virally with an image of a girl staring blankly into the camera, linking to a website ithinkyouarecontra.com which then led to an enlarged image of the girl. No one knew what it was then, but it was actually t... more info

Said the Gramophone — Cocteau Twins - "Ella Megablast Buris 4Ever". On the night of Erik Fforde's fortieth birthday, he looked out onto the silver city and he wondered where she was. Where she was and what she was doing; if she was speaking or if she was silent; if she ... more info

MVSW — Vampire Weekend ~ “Horchata”(mp3 via stereogum) This song has been making the rounds the last couple of days. “Horchata” is the first song off Vampire Weekend’s album Contra, which is due out January 12th, 2010. You can also download the ... more info

Quick Before It Melts — If anyone was going to be susceptible to the sophomore LP slump it was Vampire Weekend: too much attention too soon in their career; a debut album that contained many songs that had been around for awhile and were already familiar to fans; the weight... more info

Live Daily — New York indie-rockers Vampire Weekend [ tickets ] will embark on a short West Coast tour next month in anticipation of their sophomore set, "Contra." Before taking on California, the quartet with perform an Oct. 8 show in Toronto. The swing along... more info

Abeano — Here’s the album opener from Vampire Weekend’s new LP ‘Contra’, released January 11th 2010. more info

The Quietus — Get 'Horchata' now more info