NEW YORK (Billboard) - Jay-Z, Muse and Gorillaz will headline the 11th annual Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, to be held April 16-18 in southern California. Also confirmed are LCD Soundsystem, Faith No More, Thom Yorke, Pavement, The Specials, Vampire Weekend, Them Crooked Vultures, Phoenix, Tiesto, Deadmau5, David Guetta, MGMT and Public Image Limited. Tickets for the event at the ...

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Indie rock band Vampire Weekend seems a good bet to take the No. 1 spot on next week's U.S. pop album chart. Based on first-day sales numbers, industry sources are projecting the group's second album "Contra" could sell 60,000-75,000 copies by week's end on Sunday. Rookie pop singer Ke$ha currently ...

Brooklyn rock band Vampire Weekend still look like kids out of college but they have been fearlessly innovative for their new album "Contra", on sale January 11 incorporating Latino and Mexican sounds. "There is a sense of nostalgia that is different from our first album," percussionist and producer Rostam Batmanglij told AFP, describing the harmonies as "more vulnerable, less ordered ...