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Though it's out today digitally from XL, a single for Vampire Weekend's "The Kids Don't Stand a Chance" will hit brick-and-mortar stores December 9. The white vinyl 7" single for the closing track from the band's smashing self-titled affair will be joined by a remix of the song from none other than Chromeo. As you may recall, Chromeo joined the V Dubs on stage at the mtvU Woodie Awards show last week. The television broadcast of the Woodie Awards will premiere on mtvU tomorrow (November 19). And, much as they took over the internet this time last year, Vampire Weekend will continue their conquest of television with a string quartet-bolstered appearance on "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" this Friday (November 21).

And print media? Well, they're already in the tank. Vampire Weekend will join Salman Rushdie, Lewis Black, the ladies of "The View", that Olbermann guy with the head-- and countless others-- as speakers at The New York Times' Arts & Leisure Weekend, going down January 8-11 at TheTimesCenter in New York City. (Via Brooklyn Vegan.) Times music scribe Ben Sisario will corner the lads of Vampire Weekend, grilling the controversy magnets on such sticky subjects as ""how they got together, the success of their debut album and where they're headed now."

Also during the Arts & Leisure Weekend, Patti Smith will participate in a talk with Times critic Jon Pareles, titled "Punk Rock 'n' Poetry". She'll chat about "her recent tour with her band and what it's like to be back in New York writing and making music."

Vampire Weekend hit the road again next month for a brief Stateside tour.

Vampire Weekend:

12-01 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club *
12-02 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club *
12-03 New York, NY - Terminal 5 *
12-04 New York, NY - Terminal 5 !
12-06 New York, NY - Treminal 5 $
12-07 Boston, MA - Orpheum Theater %
12-08 Montclair, NJ - Wellmont Theater #
12-10 San Francisco, CA - Mezzanine
12-12 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom

* with the Teenagers
! with Telepathe
$ with Air Bombay, Fiasco
% with Black Kids
# with Ra Ra Riot