vampire weekend and Ra Ra Riot did a collab unde Discovery, but it's electropop.
if you haven't heard anything by the shins that's quite shameful because the shins have quite enough success to be now considered mainstream appoarchable.
Wild Beasts is probably one you could check out similar to vampire weekend. really just go through fbi's archive of album of the week or something and you'll find soemthing you like. i won't recommend anything else because there are just too many bands out there
Sadly, pathetically, I've barely listened to the shins.
Any standout songs?
They've toured with The Honorary Title and appeared in Skins.Born Ruffians!