Photo by Napoleon Habeica

During a BBC radio session last week, chart-topping indie rock band Vampire Weekend played a cover of Rancid's 1995 pop-punk hit "Ruby Soho". (Via Abeano.) If you think about this for more than five seconds, it makes a lot of sense. And, unsurprisingly, the cover is a relatively tucked-in alternative to the spiky original. Check it out here.

As Abeano also points out, Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij compiled a mini-mix for Annie Mac's Radio 1 show, featuring Vampire Weekend's "Taxi Cab", the 6ths' "As You Turn to Go", and a Vampire Weekend remix of Lykke Li's "Dance Dance Dance". Listen to that over at Abeano as well.

Fresh off scoring a Billboard #1 for their new album Contra, Vampire Weekend recently stopped by La Blogotheque's "Les Soirees de Poche" series, playing acoustically for a crowd of ecstatically happy French people. The six-song, 20-minute set includes VW tracks old and new, as well as a cover of the Honeycombs' British Invasion classic "Have I the Right". And for at least part of the set, Chris Tomson drums on what appears to be a leather couch cushion.

As with everything else La Blogotheque puts together, it's filmed beautifully. Watch below:

Vampire Weekend's Chris Baio will be DJing at the following clubs during the band's February European tour:2/3 Syndicate/Bristol, UK2/4 Blush/Cheltenham, UK2/6 The Forum Herts University/Hatfield, UK2...