Stream: Vampire Weekend - Contra

You can stream the entire new Vampire Weekend album Contra on their MySpace, complete with auto-tune! It comes out on Friday in Ireland, and Monday/Tuesday everywhere else. (Also, that should've been the album cover)

Tracklist
1. Horchata
2. White Sky
3. Holiday
4. California English
5. Taxi Cab
6. Run
7. Cousins
8. Giving Up the Gun
9. Diplomat’s Son
10. I Think Ur A Contra

Stream:
Full album

Album News: Vampire Weekend - Contra

Vampire Weekend will be releasing their second album Contra on XL Recordings on the 12th of January 2010. It's produced by Rostam Batmanglij, the band's keyboard player.

Tracklist:
01 "Horchata"
02 "White Sky"
03 "Holiday"
04 "California English"
05 "Taxi Cab"
06 "Run"
07 "Cousins"
08 "Giving Up the Gun"
09 "Diplomat's Son"
10 "I Think Ur A Contra"

Stream 'Horchata':

Stream: Vampire Weekend Peter Gabriel 'Ottoman'

Not only is Peter Gabriel covering Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend referencing Peter Gabriel and all that jazz; now they've collaborated on a tune: 'Ottoman'.

You can stream it exclusively here:
http://www.abeano.com/blog/exclusive-new-vampire-weekend-ottoman

Oh, it's worth the listen. Definitely.

Peter Gabriel 'Solsbury Hill' a classic:

Live: Vampire Weekend at the Ambassador

"Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?" may well be the lyric of the year. It will definitely please all those grammar Nazis out there.

New York new-punks Vampire Weekend will play Dublin's Ambassador Theatre on Thursday the 23rd of October. Doors open at half seven, for whatever very special guest is playing (no idea who yet). Tickets are actually on sale now, at a price of €28.

Setlist: Vampire Weekend, Oxegen Festival, 12 July 2008

Surely one of the highlights of the weekend was seeing Vampire Weekend in the Green Room. The Brooklyn band played a storm, and even played a song about Amy Winehouse's other half (not really, but Blake does have a new face!)

'Mansard Roof'
'Campus'
'Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa'
'M79'
'[Untitled New Song]'
'Bryn'
'A-Punk'
'One (Blake's Got A New Face)'
'I Stand Corrected'
'Oxford Comma'
'Walcott'