We All Want Someone To Shout For — La Blogotheque always find ways to capture our favorite bands in the most special moments. This time they caught Vampire Weekend as a part of their wonderful live documentation of the finest indie bands performing short acoustic sets of their songs. ... more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — Ezra Koenig and company stopped in for La Blogotheque's Les Soirees De Poche series, playing six songs from their debut and Contra including "A-Punk", "Cousins", and "Horchata", the latter of which you can check out below the vid. (Via Prefix) ... more info

Guardian Music — Glastonbury festival unable to confirm rumoured headliners, but claim they are in talks with both actsStevie Wonder and Muse could be joining U2 as Glastonbury 2010 headliners, after Michael Eavis appeared to confirm them at an industry function. Spe... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Den of Geek spotlights the film career of Tom Waits. A children's book by Bob Dylan will be published this fall. PopMatters interviews Vampire Weekend drummer Chris Tomson. At the Huffington Post, Peter Bognanni makes a case for book soundtracks.... more info

ContactMusic — Vampire Weekend hope their latest album will see critics change their opinion of them. The New York-based band revealed that their album 'Contra' has a different feel... more info

Troubled Souls Unite — [Editor's Note: I was asked this week to respond to an article on The Vertex Blog that put forth the idea that Coldplay's most recent album Viva La Vida was an inadvertent soundtrack to the hit TV show Lost. While I have never watched Lost and pr... more info

Idolator — Grammy winner and Armani muse Lady Gaga is gaining more and more little monsters every day, and from the most unlikely of sources. Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij recently divulged to SIRIUS radio host Jenny Eliscu that the abstract pop artist ... more info

Stereogum — Brooklyn-based Holly Miranda is about to release the Dave Sitek-produced The Magician's Private Library. You might remember her name from the Jealous Girlfriends. When she opened for the xx in Italy. Or, more close to her home, for Vampire Weekend at... more info

Here Comes The Flood — The 2010 edition of Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN, has an interesting mix of indie and avantgarde, often joining forces on stage. Noteworthy events: Band on a Can performing the legendary Terry Riley composition In C (Riley also appears solo -... more info

Stereogum — Despite being in stores for much less than a full week, the recording of Friday's all-star charity telethon has debuted atop the album charts (knocking down Vampire Weekend's Contra and more importantly, Ke$ha). You can watch some performances (e.... more info