Stereogum — As soon as it was announced that the first proper band appearing on Stephen Colbert’s version of the Late Show would be a mysterious Paul Simon tribute act called Troubled Waters, it was kind of assumed to be a joke. Maybe it was a reunited Pavemen... more info

Stereogum — For the past year or so, musical genius Chilly Gonzales has been hosting a video series called Pop Music Masterclass for German radio station WDR 1Live where he deconstructs popular songs from artists like Drake, Nicki Minaj, and Daft Punk, and looks... more info

Stereogum — Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig’s Beats 1 Radio show Time Crisis has been one of the most reliably entertaining things about the station since it launched earlier this summer. Thus far on the show, he’s had deeply diverting conversations wit... more info

Stereogum — Our apologies for not being more up on the teenage-movie soundtrack-album world, but the soundtrack for the new drama Paper Towns has been out for a few weeks, and it looks pretty great. The album includes some great previously-released songs from pe... more info

Stereogum — Vampire Weekend bassist Chris Baio has been making precise electronic pop under his own name for a few years now, but he’s finally getting around to releasing a debut full-length this fall. We’ve heard two songs from The Names already, the thumpi... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher photo: Baio w/ Vampire Weekend in Chicago in 2014 (more by James Richards IV) Vampire Weekend's Chris Baio is releasing the first-ever full length album for his solo project, Baio. It's called The Names, is due out... more info

Stereogum — Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig hosted his first Beats 1 radio show last night in a timeslot that he’ll alternate every other week with Pharrell’s show. It’s called Time Crisis and, for the debut episode, he brought along Mark Ronson, Rashida J... more info

Stereogum — All of the artist-hosted Beats 1 radio shows are probably the coolest part of Apple Music, and they already have Drake, Pharrell, Run The Jewels, St. Vincent, and a whole bunch of other people hosting shows. Now, as Pitchfork reports, they’ve just ... more info

Stereogum — Following last year’s demise of Brooklyn synthpop band Neighbors, founder Noah Stitelman returns with his new project Total Makeover and premieres”Different Shapes” off their upcoming self-titled EP. The band’s debut blends catchy electro pop... more info

Stereogum — Minneapolis’ Hippo Campus came onto the scene last fall with their debut EP Bashful Creatures, garnering comparisons to Vampire Weekend with their lack of guitar effects and vocalist Jake Luppen’s Koenig-esque yelping. With gigs opening for My Mo... more info