BBC Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac kind of says it all at the beginning of this radio rip. "White Sky" is Vampire Weekend's next single, and it gets a dancefloor remix from Basement Jaxx. Listen: Vampire…   Read Story »

We've heard a lot about the Vampire Weekend cover controversy from the band and photographer's lawyers, as well as the lawyer representing Ann Kirsten Kennis. But an article in the Fairfield Citizen,…   Read Story »

Converse STEPPED IT UP (punstyles) with this year's installment of their commercial/song experiment, bringing a live show component to the campaign. I'm still not entirely clear on how people got in…   Read Story »

Ha, scandal. Sure. I ain't saying Kirsten Kennis is a gold digger, but let's all agree that musicians are not responsible for the authenticity of release forms related to their album art. (Except Owl…   Read Story »

Kirsten, the Polo-sporting mystery blonde who stars on the cover of chart topper Contra (and the cryptic banner ads that preceded it) has been revealed. Her surname is Kennis, and the photo was taken…   Read Story »

When we posted "All Summer," the Converse-funded collaboration between Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino, Kid Cudi, and Rostam Batmanglij, it was accompanied by a photo of the trio mugging with…   Read Story »

Converse just released the next in its series of unlikely collaborations -- last summer it was Santigold, Julian Casablancas and Pharrell doing "My Drive Thru." This year, it's an explicit summer…   Read Story »

XL released a DJ-targeted 12" of Vampire Weekend single "Giving Up The Gun" in early June, and you can hear a bit of the track's b-side mix (the a-side is an extended version of the single) below.…   Read Story »

Vampire Weekend made to The Colbert Report last night, sharing a stage for the second time this week with Colbert (both were at O'Brien's Radio City Music Hall show earlier this week). As with the…   Read Story »

You heard Vampire Weekend's "Jonathan Low" (one of VW's top three songs about vampires) and before that Muse's “Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)” (inescapable at vampire proms this…   Read Story »