Abeano — Like a series of faded brushstrokes of music’s biggest names in dark, damp stone hollows, Brighton freshlings Cave Painting claim to be joining the dots between such luminaries as Kanye West and Fleetwood Mac, distilling their influential oeuv... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Muad_Dib said... Sting - Discography 1985 - 2009 FLAC Faithless - Reverence 1996 FLAC Manowar - Discography 1982 - 2009 FLAC http://losslessblog.blogspot.com Thank you! a r n e l said... Rod Stewart - 5 albums Elton John - 39 albums Peter Gabriel - ... more info

Guardian Music — Why bother forming a band when you can do everything on a laptop? Rosie Swash reports on why the web generation have the music industry at their mercyA decade ago, back when South by Southwest (SXSW) was still more or less a music trade festival, i... more info

XLR8R — This one has been in the works for a long time. Back when XLR8R tagged Mexican cumbia-bass maestro Toy Selectah as an Artist to Watch in early 2009, the veteran DJ/producer was already at work on his EP for the Mad Decent label. While waiting for its... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — At the Apple Store in SoHo Friday: "Join musician Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend for a talk about his projects, including his score for the film "Sound of My Voice." March 4, 7:00 p.m." Vampire Weekend's last release was... more info

Impose Magazine — With almost every artist and band that you love putting an album out, 2011 is off to a year of great pop potential. Should you find yourself bummed because Arcade Fire and the Black Keys shut down Vampire Weekend at the Grammy’s, or freaked out by ... more info

Guardian Music — Only sign artists you really like, give them free rein, have no regard for business . . . XL Recordings boss Richard Russell reveals the secrets of surviving in the music industryUnless you're an obsessive fan of Kicks Like a Mule's 1992 rave hit the... more info

Abeano — To mark his first trip to the UK, Richie Follin aka Guards has put three covers up for download on his famous bandcamp page. Amongst them is this, an eerie reworking of Vampire Weekend’s ‘Taxi Cab.’ Transformed from its original delicate s... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — If we had to pick our least favorite song of all time it would probably be a tie between "Kumbaya," DMB's "Crash" and that new Britney Spears song we posted about a few weeks ago that caused everyone to get really pissed off and email us death threat... more info

Stereogum — Looks like “Crash” is going to be a significant influence on future Vampire Weekend material as soon as Ezra can figure out the chords. He recently posted this to YouTube with the comment “fuk the haters.” There’s more, because at Columbia... more info