Stereogum — Before Vampire Weekend, Ezra had L'Homme Run, a rap act that had a song called "Giving Up Da Gun," which was was recently removed from their new MySpace. And the new VW LP has a song called "Giving Up The Gun." Same song? We All Want Someone investig... more info

The Red Radio — Vampire Weekend's Contra is due January 12th, that's a long, long way off. To help tide us over, there's a free download of the album's first single Horchata being offered up on the band's official site. We don't know about... more info

8/1 — 0.4/5 Happy songs 4 happy peopleMP3: Vampire Weekend - Horchata more info

Pasta Primavera — So yesterday morning I discovered like many on the internets that Vampire Weekend was having some sort of countdown on their website.  It was going to wrap up in the mid afternoon.  So noon time comes and I’m pumped.  1 pm hits the clock a... more info

Pop Candy — Check out Whitney's list of pop-culture links for Tuesday, Oct. 6. more info

XFM.co.uk — You can bag a preview of their next album right now... more info

Guardian Music — Horchata is the first Vampire Weekend song to be released from their second album, Contra"In December drinking horchata/I look psychotic in a balaclava" And what better way for Vampire Weekend to announce their comeback? This marimba-heavy track, cal... more info

BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat — The New York band make a new track available for free before their second album Contra is released early in 2010. more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Well if you are obsessed with Vampire Weekend like me, you have traced their roots pretty deep. Ezra’s first journey into the music scene was with  his old hip-hop duo “L’Homme Run” which was with his college friend Andrew Kalaidjian. They... more info

Rock Sellout —     Vampire Weekend have given #musicmonday a lift by releasing Horchata as a free download on their website. Horchata is the opening track off the new album “Contra” due out in January and keeps the same Upper West Side Soweto style found on ... more info