Free Apparatjik Single, Vampire Weekend Samples, & Kanye/Leto Song Stream

We posted recently about a 60-second sample of the first single off the debut LP from Apparatjik, a group made up of A-Ha’s Magne Furuholmen, Mew’s Jonas Bjerre, and Coldplay’s Guy Berryman. At that time, we knew the full version would be released today, but not that it would be free and over 9 minutes long. Download “Electric Eye” for the cost of a name and email address here.

Vampire Weekend have already dropped the first single and video off their upcoming second album Contra and I heard from somebody, somewhere that the song “Horchata” leaked, but you can now also listen to snippets from every song on the album over at 30-second leak blog Amazon.com.

Famous frenemies Kanye West and Jared Leto teamed up in the studio during Kanye’s Pre-Swiftgate, Auto-Tune era and recorded this little ditty for the new 30 Seconds to Mars album This Is War. It’s called “Hurricane” and let’s just say, um, it’s good for a laugh.