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

Streetkiss Music — Justice s'emparent de la voix de Lenny Kravitz et signent avec le réalisateur Keith Schofield un clip encore une fois très original, quoique, le mouvement rétro eighties est un peu surexploité ces temps-ci (cf le fan-clip de Liztomania... more info

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