Despite selling out in five minutes, and despite featuring Vampire Weekend playing Vampire Weekend songs, last night's early show at Joe's Pub was an atypical night with the band. They performed as the Music portion of the Happy Ending Music & Reading event, part of a series organized and hosted by Amanda Stern, bringing together Writers To ...

Radiohead, The Prodigy, Grace Jones, Bloc Party, Kasabian, Jarvis Cocker and Editors have all been confirmed for Austria's Frequency Festival

Paul Weller, Editors, Doves, The Pigeon Detectives and Echo And The Bunnymen are among the bands playing the 2009 Hop Farm Festival.

Editors, Bat For Lashes and Doves are set to play the 2009 Latitude Festival.

The likes of Mystery Jets, Lostprophets and The Futureheads are set to feature on a free album featuring covers of The Cure that will be given away with next week's issue of NME on February 25.