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The video for Vampire Weekend's next single 'Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa' has been posted online - and shows the band as you've never seen them before.

An exceedingly goofy/campy video for "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" that finds the men of Vampire Weekend learning to embrace their inner goth. Directed by Richard Ayoade.

[from Vampire Weekend; out now on XL]

Swedish chanteuses El Perro del Mar and Lykke Li were on tour together recently, and they found time in their San Francisco stop to do a joint installment of La Blogothèque's "Take Away Show". The highlight is "Dance Dance Dance", a ramshackle, Shakira-referencing indie-pop tune from Li's Björn Yttling-produced Youth Novels; it's introduced here by a snippet of the guitar from Vampire Weekend's "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa", which Li played live at Roskilde. Over off-kilter percussion and acoustic instrumentation that really isn't so far off from the Youth Novels version, Li somehow makes her small voice huge, then fills in on kazoo for the studio take's saxophone solo. Elsewhere, Li lends backing vocals and handclaps to a chiming, windswept rendition of El Perro del Mar's mournful "Someone's Baby" (not a Jackson Browne cover), and the two singers duet on a similarly forlorn rendition of Wendy Rene's 1964 Stax single "After Laughter".

Lykke Li [ft. El Perro del Mar]: "Dance Dance Dance"

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Vampire Weekend have ditched their preppy look for goth garbs in the video for their forthcoming single, 'Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa'.

Vampire Weekend are about to embark on their biggest UK tour yet.

Vampire Weekend have announced a nine-date UK headline tour, including two nights at London's Forum. The October dates will kick off at the Birmingham Academy

Were any other weekend to stretch on this long, there would be bottles strewn everywhere, ever-flimsier excuses for missing work, and maybe even some talk of rehab. But this is, of course, a Vampire Weekend. And when those boys get together to keep that Saturday/Sunday vibe alive for a few more months on the road? Well, I think we can all raise a glass to that.

The band recently snuck in a few more U.S. dates in September, plus a full-on UK jaunt to close out October [via NME]. And the days of wine and roses live on.

Hey, we're about to have us a Vampire Weekend of our very own here in Chicago too, what with the outfit's performance at the looming Pitchfork Music Festival.

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Vampire Weekend, Fleet Foxes, The Hold Steady and Les Savy Fav are among the bands headlining this year's Capitol Hill Block Party in Seattle.