Vampire Weekend have released Giving Up The Gun as their second single from their latest album Contra. The video features cameos by Joe Jonas, Jake Gyllenhal, RZA and Lil’ Jon. Pretty great. Vampire Weekend play Sound Academy on March 26th. The show is sold out.
tUnE-yArDs (aka Merrill Garbus) has released a video for Real Live Flesh, and has confirmed a joint Spring tour with Xiu Xiu. No Toronto date. Boo to that. Check the dates here.
Beach House have released another video for a song taken from their new, incredible album Teen Dream. This time its for Silver Soul. The band have made videos for each of their songs on the new album, a DVD of the videos is included with the CD. Beach House play the Opera House in Toronto on March 30th. Tickets available here.
The XX have released a video for their latest single VCR. They have two upcoming Toronto shows on the horizon, April 4th at the Phoenix with jj, then a couple weeks later on April 20th with Hot Chip at Kool Haus. Tickets are still available here and here for the shows, but act fast, I’m sure both will sell out.
The Very Best have released a video for Warm Heart of Africa, which features vocals by Ezra Koenig from Vampire Weekend. Speaking of VW, their new album Contra debuted at #1 on Billboard and sold roughly 121,000 copies in its first week.
Patrick Wolf has released a new video for Damaris, the final single released from his album The Bachelor.
The Drums have released a video for I Felt So Stupid. It’s cute, lots of running, jumping, and overall adorable-ness. Can’t wait for their debut.
Animal Collective have released a video for In The Flowers taken from the gorgeous Merriweather Post Pavilion. Watch it below.
Check out Little Boots video for Remedy. Okay, so the video is a bit crap, but I can’t get this song out of my freakin’ head. It’s burnt in. Soooo catchy and poppy.
New La Roux video for I’m Not Your Toy. Fashionable and hyper stylized, kind of like their music. La Roux have confirmed another Toronto show, this time at the much bigger Guverment on October 23rd, tickets on sale now. Note that this is an early show, but is 19+.
