Paris should bestow the key to their city to Vincent from La Blogotheque for his consistently incredible Take-Away Shows, which currently features Vampire Weekend playing around the French capitol. Although vampires are typically adverse to light, Vincent has captured Vampire Weekend performing at their best in the City of Lights. Check out the clips below!

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#80.1 - VAMPIRE WEEKEND - “Mansard Roof”

#80.2 - VAMPIRE WEEKEND - “The Kids don’t stand a chance”

#80.3 - VAMPIRE WEEKEND - “Walcott / One”

Hot Chip have released the title track from the upcoming album, Made In The Dark. You probably knew that the boys were skilled at crafting dance floor-fillers, but “Made In The Dark” shows that the band is equally capable of creating intimate and melancholy songs for your headphones.

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Hot Chip - “Made In The Dark”

It seems to be a hot week for musicians and morning talk shows. Ringo Starr broke from his “amiable Beatle” reputation earlier today when he walked off the set of Live With Regis and Kelly rather than cut short one of his songs. Due to miscommunication between his publicist and the show’s musical director, Starr didn’t realize his performance, which was an estimated 4 minutes and 15 seconds in length, had to be an anemic 2 1/2 minutes or less. Refusing to make the changes, Ringo left saying, “God bless and goodbye. We still love Regis.” Has there ever been a more true statement?

The line-up for Coachella 2008 (April 25-27) has been officially confirmed. Contrary to Pitchfork’s lukewarm reaction, Hypeful thinks there’s plenty of good artists on this year’s bill. Tickets for Coachella go on sale Friday (January 25) at 10:00 AM (PT) via TicketMaster and you can check out the full line-up after the jump!

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If you were up early drinking a gallon of Sunny D yesterday, you may have caught The Moldy Peaches on The View performing “Anyone Else But You” and briefly chatting up host Whoopi Goldberg. It’s cool that they’re helping to promote the Juno soundtrack, but you can’t help but think Juno herself would shudder at the idea of Kimya Dawson and Adam Green appearing on the morning gabfest.

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