What do Joe Jonas, Jake Gyllenhaal, the Wu-Tang’s RZA have in common? Thanks to Vampire Weekend’s new tennis-themed video, we now have an answer.

Vampire Weekend – Cousins
The New York indie quartet are back with this perky and fun-filled performance video set in an alleyway. Repeated views reveals plenty happening in the background.

Before Lady Gaga
Before she was a huge popstar, Stefani Germanotta used to perform original jazz compositions on piano. Check out a performance from four years ago.

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The Hype Machine Radio Podcast
The popular music aggregator also offers a monthly downloadable digest of what’s happening on the music blogosphere in the form of an hour radio show.
http://hypem.com/radio

Highlife – Kenya
The song of the summer? It’s definitely a contender for best song of 2009 to lounge around on a hammock to. The clue is in the title as White Magic’s Sleep Doug Shaw and co. mine the feel of African guitar music into an indie-pop gem.
Listen at Pinglewood

Cortney Tidwell
Signed to City Slang, home of Broken Social Scene, Nashville singer-songwriter Tidwell and her new album Boys trades in some Bat For Lashes atmospherics. Listen to the free album stream.
Listen to the album stream @ City Slang

Vampire Weekend & Ra Ra Riot collaborate
One quarter of the former and one fifth of the latter collaborate on a synth-pop project. Two EPs are on the way but there are three songs on the Myspace page.
http://www.myspace.com/discoverdiscovery

1. Dublin Flash Mob
A Flash mob Irish-style. Watch the video of the impromptu Irish jig outside the Central Bank.

2. Brian O’ Driscoll’s Cantona moment
BOD drops an admirable seagull/trawler style answer to a standard dull press question. A must see.

3. Jape 2FM Session Videos
Recent Choice Music Prize winner calls into the Donnybrook studio to play stripped down new songs ‘Downpour’ and ‘If You Can Here Me’ as well as ‘Graveyard’. Kudos to RTE for the HD option.
http://tinyurl.com/jape2fm
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The best songs on the web this week..

1. Lykke Li covers Kings of Leon
   The Swedish popstress takes on the Nashville rockers’ tale of a condemned pregnancy and creates a bit of magic with KOL’s Caleb Followill on backing vocals. [MP3]
2. Aeroplane remix MGMT
   Nearly a year on and MGMT are still doing the business. This remix of ‘Electric Feel’ is another master-stroke from Belgium’s Aeroplane after their reworking of Grace Jones and Friendly Fires.[MP3]
3. Peter Gabriel covers Vampire Weekend
   Not content with being namechecked in the song ‘Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa’, Gabriel repays the compliment by getting together with Hot Chip to record his own version. [Illegal Tender]
4. The Rub’s Best of 2008
   Give it up one last time for 2008. A two hour mix of the best hip-hop and R&B tunes of last year as put together by the same guys who made those exhaustively brilliant hip-hop mixes. [The Rub]