Stereogum — Despite selling out in five minutes, and despite featuring Vampire Weekend playing Vampire Weekend songs, last night's early show at Joe's Pub was an atypical night with the band. They performed as the Music portion of the Happy Ending Music & Rea... more info

NME - Radar — Local Natives are here for your father. Oh, you're 47 and dad died three years ago from a degenerative disease? Don't worry, that doesn't matter, they're digging him up, burning his Paul Simon and Crazy Horse LPs before his very (moldy) eyes and decl... more info

NME — Band take break from studio for intimate show more info

NME — Ezra Koenig guests on new single from Lushlife more info

Stereogum — Philadelphia multi-instrumental emcee Lushlife is joined by Ezra Koenig on the first single from his forthcoming Cassette City. If you recall, he's also the man behind West Sounds, which mashed Pet Sounds instrumentals with Kanye's The College Dro... more info

Pasta Primavera — Apparently this  super indie band team up has been in the works for a while now, but for those who don’t know Rostam Batmanglij of  Vampire Weekend and Wes Miles of Ra Ra Riot have joined forces to form Discovery - an electronic rock pop excu... more info

Music Mule — What? The Leisure Society Nick Hemming and co bring their Ivor Novello award nominated harmonious folk/pop to it’s biggest setting yet. Their album ‘The Sleeper’ has been a firm favourite of mine since its release a couple of months back. For F... more info

The Culture Of Me — (photo by Delgoff) Last month we brought you news of the developing line-up for this year's Ibiza Rocks dates, all taking place this summer, featuring the likes of Klaxons, MGMT, Vampire Weekend, Pendulum and more. Today, we bring word of the lin... more info

Pop Tarts Suck Toasted — Sonic Youth - "Sacred Trickster"; The first taste that we get from Sonic Youth's new album is a bit too brief for my liking. At only 2-minutes this pales in comparison to the old super long suites Sonic Youth were known for, but it assaults your ears... more info

NME — Ezra Keonig: 'We're trying not to use the same bag of tricks' more info