Vampire Weekend :: Giving Up The Gun (music video)

This new video features famous people. Camp Rocker, Joe Jonas and Broke-Back Jake Gyllenhaal are tennis players. They are truly awful. (via Lines of Oration)

Vampire Weekend :: Ruby Soho (Rancid Cover)

I like Vampire Weekend. I don't know that I've heard anything they've done that I haven't loved or at least, liked. They recently did a live cover of the punk band Rancid's track, Ruby Soho from their '95 album, ...And Out Come The Wolves.

Vampire Weekend :: Ruby Soho (Rancid Cover) | zSHARE

Metric, Vampire Weekend and Ellie Goulding do Covers

Ellie Goulding is a name that has started to pop up more and more as people fall in love with what she does. I stumbled across two covers she's done, a Robyn cover with Erik Hassle and most notably a Bon Iver cover of his track Wolves. They are both pretty great and well worth the bandwidth.

Metric and Vampire Weekend really need no introductions. Metric has covered the Bob Dylan track, Don't Think Twice It's All Right while VW have gone to town on Radiohead's Exit Music.

Don't Think Twice It's All Right (Bob Dylan Cover) :: Metric | zSHARE
Exit Music (Radiohead Cover) :: Vampire Weekend | zSHARE
Be Mine (Robyn Cover) :: Erik Hassle and Ellie Goulding | zSHARE
Wolves (Bon Iver cover) :: Ellie Goulding | zSHARE

More covers

Vampire Weekend release Contra

So in the States today (12 Jan) Vampire Weekend are finally releasing their much anticipated Contra album. Yes please. It was released in the UK on the 11th.

If you are interested in buying the album, but haven't heard enough to give you that final push in these times of economic turmoil, give the album a listen below.


Check out their first video off Contra, Cousins:


Here are a couple of songs to maybe get you in the Vampire Weekend mood off Contra:

Tracks removed because the WEB SHERIFF asked me nicely.

Bonus:
Exit Music (Radiohead Cover) :: Vampire Weekend | zSHARE

Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa :: Hot Chip & Peter Gabriel

Yip, Peter Gabriel from Genesis. He recorded with Hot Chip on this Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa cover. I'd be pretty honoured if I was a member of Vampire Weekend. This is not Pete's first exposure to 'African' music however. He covered Shosholoza for The Gods Must Be Crazy when I was a kid. This cover is really special for anyone with the sense enough to enjoy VW. Listen out for the yelping puppy.

Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (Vampire Weekend Cover) :: Hot Chip & Peter Gabriel | zSHARE

Bonus mp3 (without Fabio Pop's Dancefloor Rework):

Psychic City (Classixx Remix) :: Yacht | zSHARE

Great, but cheaply created music

So in keeping with my largely ignored post yesterday, here are a few more tracks that you might like for a while before tossing them aside for the 'next big thing'. Enjoy:

Fences (the Soft Pack cover) - Phoenix (zShare)

Horchata - Vampire Weekend (zShare)

Ottoman - Vampire Weekend (zShare)

Oh, and here's just a special one, cos I love the Arctic Monkeys:

Temptation Greets You Like A Naughty Friend w/ Dizzee Rascal - Arctic Monkeys (zShare)

Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig

Vampire Weekend's music has long had notable flavours of African influence blended with indie pop. I stumbled across something the lead singer, Ezra Koenig was involved in. It is really great. Take a listen. This might just be restoring my faith in the music scene. If it doesn't, well it's still great song.

What this song does, is make me proud to be an African, and it makes me stoked for summer, which is soon.

Warm Heart Of Africa - The Very Best (feat Ezra Koenig) (zShare)