Stereogum — If you're tired of practicing old folk tunes, Beatles songs, Mel Bay, or whatever, Q TV's new series "How To" With Q features various indie rock luminaries walking you through the guitar parts of some of their popular songs. A series like this is ... more info

Stereogum — Vampire Weekend's very familiar "A Punk" soundtracks a colorful (slow) trip (into the city) across Google Maps in an ad for the HP Photosmart Premium, "the world's first Internet connected printed." You'll have to watch to see how it works, but no... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Vampire Weekend have chosen “Cousins” to be the first single off of their hotly anticipated new album Contra! “Cousins” will be release digitally on November 17th, with a release of a 7 inch on December 15th. I approve of this. This is why: more info

NME — 'Cousins' set to be the follow-up to 'Horchata' more info

Guardian Music — King's College, London"You find us in a period of transition," says Vampire Weekend's frontman Ezra Koenig. He sounds slightly nervous – perhaps with good reason. For one thing, the audience is crammed into a tiny fourth-floor student union ba... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Just found out that Vampire Weekend played their new song Horchata live last week at their Toronto show on October 8th. Very good performance! Check it out. below: more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — Violens are the project of Jorge Elbrecht, formerly of Lansing-Dreiden, and a few of his co-conspirators from that band. Last year they toured with the likes of MGMT, Grizzly Bear, and Deerhunter in support of their debut self-titled EP. They've got ... more info

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