One interesting thing about Vampire Weekend's recent run of TV appearances: Drummer Chris Tomson gets further and further away from the band's buttoned-up dress code every time he's on camera. When the band dropped by "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" on Friday, he was rocking a Nets jersey and a gigantic wolfman beard, and he put on a beanie halfway through the song. If the rest of the band isn't careful, he'll be shirtless in sweatpants on "Lopez Tonight" within a month.

Doesn't matter, really. The band has reached the level where they can blow through album deep cuts on late-night shows and everyone's still excited to see them. On "Fallon", they played the ska-pop ditty "Holiday", not a single or even really a highlight on Contra, and their charisma still went for miles.

Watch the video below, via Prefix.

After a few months spent touring Europe, Vampire Weekend returned to North America on their Contra tour, playing Edmonton, Alberta, this weekend. Our photographer Aaron Vanimere was there.

Vampire Weekend

Acts will join Kasabian, The Prodigy and Vampire Weekend at the event

Empire Of The Sun, Maccabees also set for Suffolk festival

Empire Of The Sun, Maccabees also set for Suffolk festival

Between Vampire Weekend enlisting Jonas Brother Joe Jonas to star in their "Giving Up the Gun" video and a burgeoning war between Justin Bieber and Raaaaaaaandy (aka comedian Aziz Ansari), it looks like the indie world has finally figured out how to capitalize on the current teen-pop boom.

As we wait on the official release of Raaaaaaaandy and TV on the Radio producer-guitarist Dave Sitek's hip-hop mixtape, the duo have a new video on Funny or Die that claims Canadian moppet Bieber shot Raaaaaaaandy in the knee and stole a Raaaaaaaandy track called "Baby Baby" and turned it into his smash hit "Baby". Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner makes a guitar-swaying cameo in the skit.

Check out the first track from the mixtape, "AAAAAAAANGRY", here. Download Raaaaaaaandy's "Baby Baby" and watch the Bieber vs. Raaaaaaaandy saga below.

And-- because this is the only chance I'll ever get to embed a Justin Bieber video on Pitchfork-- the original "Baby" video is after the jump, too. The kid really let himself go:

"Raaaaaaaandy Declares War on Justin Bieber"

MP3:> Raaaaaaaandy: "Baby Baby" [ft. DJ Ol' Youngin]

Justin Bieber: "Baby"

New York City's own Vampire Weekend played "Saturday Night Live" over the weekend. They didn't wear pastels, shorts, or scarves. They did play "Cousins" and "Giving Up the Gun". Check out the performances below--who says you can't sound good on "SNL"?

"Cousins"

"Giving Up the Gun"

We are very excited about a couple upcoming TV appearances.This Saturday we will be returning to the legendary Saturday Night Live with guest host Zach Galifianakis. It's CT's birthday on Saturday, so...

Lil Wayne's sentencing delayed again, Sade holds at No. 1 on album charts for third week, Gang Starr's Guru recovering from heart surgery, Vampire Weekend talks autotune.

Roots drummer ?uestlove maintains one of the most entertaining Twitters in music; follow him stat if you aren't already. Last night, followers were treated to a video of ?uestlove, backstage at "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" (where the Roots are the house band), announcing the lineup for the Roots Picnic, the festival the band has put on in its hometown of Philadelphia three years in a row.

This year's Roots Picnic will go down June 5 at Festival Pier on Penn's Landing, and the lineup reflects the band's eclectic tastes. Headliners Vampire Weekend will be joined by Clipse, the Very Best, tUnE-yArDs, Mayer Hawthorne, Pattern Is Movement, Das Racist, and more. The Roots themselves will play, as will two side projects: ?uestlove teaming up with DJ Jazzy Jeff and MC Black Thought's collaboration with Dice Raw and Truck North, Money Making Jam Boys.

In the video, ?uestlove promises that the Picnic will also feature an amazing reunion, but doesn't come out and say who it is. Watch the video to see why we think it's Run-D.M.C.