Vampire Weekend: upcoming album 'CONTRA' and additional tour dates

Vampire Weekend have uploaded the complete upcoming album 'CONTRA' to their website free for everybody to pre-listen: www.vampireweekend.com The album will be released next week, but can however already be pre-ordered from various sources - for example from amazon.com:
--> [VINYL]  [CD]  [MP3]

And then the band has also completed their 2010 tour schedule with a string of concerts across the Northern American continent. All together Vampire Weekend has now a quite busy three months ahead with almost 50 shows in cities across the U.K., Spain, France, Germany, Canada and the USA.

For further details please feel free to check the frequently updated tour dates listing:
--> livetourdates.org/artists/vampire+weekend

..enjoy the shows!! t..

PS: over at MTV.com you'll find a video clip of Vampire Weekend (Ezra Koenig and Chris Baio) explaining 'CONTRA' track by track:
--> mtv.com/videos/news/468453/vampire-weekend-explain-contra...